If you grew up when guitar dominated the music you love, then you know the sound and feel of guitars made during the Golden Era. The Golden Era for acoustics began in the late-20s and lasted until WWII. The Golden Era for electrics began a bit after 1936 and lasted until 1965.
The Golden Era guitars became valuable commodities while riding around in the trunk of your car during your bar band days. Then they were gracefully put to pasture under your bed when they became too valuable to bring to the seedier parts of town. You watched two significant over-speculation bubbles come and go. One occurred in 1995; the other in 2008. The one in 1995 was really just a blip. The one in 2008 turned out to be significant. It wasn’t merely a vintage guitar bubble—it was a global economic meltdown. The longest bull market in American stock market history arrived next and the value of your vintage guitars remained virtually unchanged for 12 long years. The high-end guitars in your collection truly never recovered. They had no reason to. There was just too much money to be made in the booming stock market. But now everything has changed. The Blue-Chip vintage guitars are on the move again. I’ll tell you which ones are the most undervalued and appreciating quickest in value.
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Today in the Tone Tomb… it was a 3-tube wonder amp blow out. The Champ was the Champ as always.
I love Fender amps above all, but I always have a place in my heart for the 1960 to 61 Martin DeArmond-made gems. Today I felt the 1961 ES-350 T needed some love.
My 1931 Martin OM-28 finally arrived!! I was on pins and needles as I tracked it as it moved slowly westward from Nashville. Eric Newell did an awesome job packing it. I must now sell two guitars (for every one that comes in, two must go out). If you read my latest book, the one featured on the cover is one I will likely sell. Not sure what the other one will be yet. It’s actually heartbreaking to even think about.
Today in the Tone Tomb… This early production DR was my stage amp for years. She was basically side-lined when the PR arrived. Both get some much-needed love today. You can hear both these amps on the Naked and Dimed album/book/website.
All these amps are 100% functional and are in as close to original condition as possible. They are written about in the book Naked and Dimed and can be heard on the Naked and Dimed album. All amps can also be heard isolated on Nakedanddimed.com.
Today in the Tone Tomb… both mid-size black panel amps get a workout. Is the Vibrolux Reverb better sounding than the Pro Reverb? Yes. But the Pro Reverb gets to the sweat spot at a much lower volume. All in all, the Vibrolux Reverb is one of my favorite Fender amps of all time.
Nashville Day 2 (Part 2). After Rumble Seat, Torey and I did lunch at Hattie B’s and then Torey gave me a tour of Starstruck Studios! The best part of the day was we just talked Telecasters all day!! I got to meet and play 3 of his incredible Black Guards!
Nashville Day 2 (Part 1). Spent an incredible day with Torey Harding. Our first stop, Rumble Seat Music! It was great to finally meet Eliot Michael in person!
Today was awesome. My son and I spent the afternoon with George Gruhn. I fell in love with a 1931 OM-28. I guess she’ll be coming home with me.
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