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Crazy Guitar Hoarder YARD SALE!
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2017
- It's summertime which means we're firmly in yard sale territory. Time to go wade through the heaps of Chinese junk and kids clothes in search of vintage nuggets. Today was a good day. No digging or wading involved here at all. I was the only guy who showed up to a guitar hoarder's yard sale/moving sale! Check out what I got.
Some of the stuff he had:
1970s Randall Commander IV Amp Combo
1960 Magnatone 413
Electrovoice Musicaster Outdoor Loudspeaker Pair
DeArmond Model 700 Violin and Archtop Pickups
DeArmond Model 900 Double Bass Viol Pickup (RARE)
Kent Archtop Pickup
Kawai and Teisco guitars
Kay SG Bass
Aria Pro II Thor Bass
Harmony H400A Amp
Kent Gregory Model 6000 Amp
Airline Valco Amp
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l have never been to a yard sale with this many guitars and amps. You are lucky if see just one amp or guitar.
Jake Morrison l think you are right. I have been going to yard sales for over fifty year's. I never seen more than one or two guitars. I always ask Do you any guitars or music instruments in your house that you want to sale? That has worked a few times. Why would this guy want to setup a lie like that??
i saw a 70s SG out of the corner of my eye while driving by a yard sale. Made a quick u turn, the guy wanted $1000s for it and I left.
It's a yard sale. Would $10 have been appropriate In your mind?
MORE LIKE TEN CENTS !
Same here, Tommy.
7:04 OMG LOOK AT THE ACTION ON THAT DAMN BASS
BurningTirez 💀
@davie504 EPIC!
I've once played with that kind of action it sure hurt like hell. The owner left the bass without any maintainance that the tension of the string made the neck bended af.
BurningTirez holy shit!😂
OH MY GOSH 🦑🤙 thats radical
There is no such thing as too many guitars and amps, Just too little space and money
This is true. I wonder how big the warehouse would have to be to fit every guitar and amplifier ever made inside...
Getting visions of the end of the first Indiana Jones movie :)
So true - getting into my studio (well ...the spare room, actually) is like going through an obstacle course of pedals, cables, speaker cabs, amps and guitars - most in various stages of repair.
So so true brother
I have too many guitars...
Said no-one ever.
I need to start going to garage sales.
...and dumpsters man. It's where all the stuff is apparently. :P
The Guitologist - indeed. I must find better dumpsters.
In industrial areas, plastic shops, sign shops.. you can get a lot of good chunks of at types of vinyl, nylon, plexi etc. if your into making stuff with it.
I never get lucky, at least where I live. Around here we have lots of people with car and motorcycle parts mostly.
@@TheGuitologist I need help identifying a old Fernandes help pls
[EDIT: The offer to procure stuff from this guy is closed. He texted me earlier today and demanded I take down this video on the grounds that he claims he didn't give me permission to film. The truth is, I asked him, as I always do, for permission, which he granted before he brought out the Magnatone. He clearly sees me filming and even acknowledges it when I talk about my audience perhaps not knowing who Greg Martin is. When I refused to take down the video on the grounds that he give me permission and clearly went along with the filming, he called me yelling down the phone that he's reporting me to CZcams. Most surreal and asinine thing I've had happen to me in quite some time. I was even well on my way to helping him sell all his gear. I have a list of people sending me emails. I've already gone back over to procure one piece and mail to a customer who wanted it. Weird thing is, I thought we kinda hit it off as friends. I'm awe struck. The video is staying though. I am making every effort to blur his face and remedy any potential privacy concerns, frivolous and idiotic as they may be.]
anymore 12 strings? id love to buy that one you picked up off you
He didn't have any others, but I have a 1965 or so Kapa 12-String. It's very cool. It would be considerably more than this Kawai though, price wise.
The Guitologist I'm in Corydon...how'd I miss this???
Dunno, man. I didn't really make a dent in the stuff. He was a little precious on some things, but reasonable on others. He said he was moving soon.
I could use some JBL D-130F speakers.
Damn I wish I could find a yard sale like that!
It was a good day. Worst part, the guy said I was pretty much the only one who showed up.
me too, you don't get sales like that around here
Just seen one in Ferndale on Craigslist
Me too ... they're a pretty new phenomenon over here in th UK. Very slowly starting to take off - They're called 'Garage Sales' over here - we can't call 'em Yard Sales 'coz we can't put stuff out in the yard - it rains too often (lol) !
If he had ukaleles .that would be more awesome 👌
Now, THAT's my kind of yard sale!
That's not just a yard sale, this is a museum with rare retro artifacts of a previous era.
It bothers me how everything is just smashed on each other and he laid guitars on that dirty ground😂
My jaw hit the floor when he pulled that Mag out. Those little amps you picked up are gorgeous. Can't wait to hear them. Love the channel.
This guy stores his gear worse than Yngwie.
Mark Wright He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack ,out beneath the trees by the railroad track!
Elephantricity lmao, so true. I just watched his home studio tour.
Yngwie tends to just pile them up in the garage.No cases.
He throws and tosses them a lot too.He doesn't care/Sort of like the honey badger.
@bwgti Thanks for linking the vid, the comment section on that video is gold
Hahaha... WTF! Yngwie is trailer park trash, to say nothing of the load of b.s he was playing
dat lime green jazz body tho
Brad's snobbery was showing...calling her a "part's guitar". I thought it looked pretty sweet...well worth some TLC. ;)
I guess there's more of a market for John Deere themed basses than I thought. :D
Color sells. Probably not as well as sex or violence, but it sells. ;)
I was in love with the look of that neck. The tuners, not so much; but those can be lived with or swapped out. The white block inlay on dark board is gorgeous.
What kind of bass was it? I have a jazz body with those routings, and I can't find pickups for it.
Man... I wish yard sales were like this where I'm from.
I'm legitimately jealous
Of what? The guy treats his equipment like shit. It's probably all fucked up beyond repair.
The thing you thoughrt was a pre amp for headphones is actually a USB interface for running PC recording.
OMG that would be like heaven to me to go to a yard sale and see nothing but guitars and amps. My luck, I'd be broke as hell lol 😂
I only clicked this vid because of the thumbnail showing some idiot with guitars stuffed in a tote. It turned out to be interesting from a historical point of view. Still don't understand someone who obviously enjoys guitars cramming them altogether like that and also laying them on the ground. Kinda like those people that "love" dogs so much they have dozens of them even though they can't house or care for the properly. Good thing guitars don't crap or he'd have a real mess on his hands.
Dane Nichols lol just like me i have six 12 strings seven 6 strings 4 basses a ukelele an upright bass and others but i just scramble them all together or sometimes just put all of them in a corner they sometimes fall but i havent seen no scratches on them ...... lol
Banda Sirrena , wait you're admitting you're one of those people. To funny man rock on
Dane Nichols hahah oh shit
Dane Nichols there's a guitar store in Edison NJ that has guitars all over the place like this. They put the squires and sub $500 guitars on the floor laying on one another. It's like an obstacle course walking through that place.
The Great House Of Guitars here in Rochester has them crammed into display cases, bumping into each other. $5000 Custom Shop models, too. But I've never heard of anyone using the floor! Damn.
Wow, some very cool finds! Lucky to see a Garage sale like that around...all we get around here are baby clothes.
This was the best yard sale I've been to. I've been to guitar hoarders' houses before where it was just piles upon piles of stuff with layers of dirt in between, but not a "yard sale" like this.
I love those 60's and 70's japanese guitars and basses. With some work they can make great instruments. You will usually find a single coil lurking in a humbucker style cover. And you will usually have to remagetise one of the pickups so they humcancel.
I've come across quite a few old hoarders like this over the years. They can be quite eccentric as you've discovered. Wanting to sell it all one day, then full of remorse and nostalgia the next...
I love old things, specially instruments, this video was lovely!
Thanks, man.
I need your help on a mesa boogie dc 3 head@@TheGuitologist
Jesus Christ the sales I go to have like 30 baby strollers and shampoo
David Pearson Seymour Duncan’s
Cracked me up!
The first amp I ever bought was a Magnatone.
In the late 50s.
To go with my bronze-spray paint Stella guitar.
And then my Hagstrum/Goya sparkle top.
Wish I could still play.
In 1989 or 1990, I used to sort of hang around a music store in a suburb of Detroit (unnamed 'cause they occasionally still get equipment in that I like- last time it was an Ace Tone SA-2 for $89...) at that time they had quite a bit of used gear for sale, and even though I'm actually a bass-player and can't play guitar worth a damn, I found myself repeatedly playing a weird old Gibson tobacco-burst hollowbody (I believe it was an ES-120T with the pickguard removed) through a big, somewhat beat up, equally weird amplifier called a Magnatone 260 Custom. There was just something about the way that guitar sounded through that amp, though actually the amp had a gorgeous clean tone no matter what guitar was plugged into it. Keep in mind this was long before the internet, and as far as that goes there were damned few books on guitars & amps then either; also I was only 19 years old and a bass-player. The salesman was (and is) a good guy, and he walked back one day and told me if I bought both he would give me the guitar for $125 and the amp for $100. To his great credit, he has never once busted my balls during the many years since then for not taking advantage of the deal. Needless to say, after about a decade I had learned enough to realise my mistake, and I've been kicking myself in the ass ever since, every time I see or hear the name "Magnatone"... Ouch!!!
"it's got treemoulooo on it!"
*scrolls to comments*
I use to look for guitars at yard sales. But found nothing. Now I just collect vintage tools because that's all I find.
lol - when one pack rat meets another pack rat - there is a transfer of stuff that goes round and round among the pack rats lol Nice video, I really enjoyed watching!
Precisely. Mostly I seem to be on the receiving end of those transactions. :P
6:59 ideal string height 😂
Not a great idea to go into a yard sale driving a Jag X300. hehehehe
Don't you have a 90 Chevy Cavalier or something similar... it's like an automatic 40% discount.
Yeah, he saw me coming, didn't he. Imagine Yngwie driving his Ferrari to the yard sale.
+The Guitologist he surely would have changed his tune then no doubt!
LOL dude!
Clarence Wooten : Ha! My cousin had a ‘90 Cavalier that we always used to go see shows in the Lower East Side & East Village in NYC, for that same reason. They say Europeans can spot an American a mile away. Residents of rough urban neighborhoods can spot kids from the suburbs just the same.
Clarence wooten. if the seller is experienced enough, he already knows that rich people driving expensive cars are stingy pain in the ass and the most humble 12h a day workers are the nicest cool buyers. trust me.
I'll never forget the day I found a late 60's Audio Guild tube amp made in Van Nuys California in near perfect condition at a yard sale for $30. Everything worked perfect and the vibrato was tremolo or at least it worked different. And If you jumpered the A and B channels together, it sounded so good. It had I think a 15" speaker and a 8" inch speaker. I'll also never forget the day I found a vintage fender amp at a yard sale. The guy wanted $300 for it and I was just too lazy to go to the bank and I was out of town and had taken a train. Didn't want to haul it. Told my guitar buddy later and he said it was the holy grail of fender amps and worth about $3000 or so and was pissed. Can't remember exactly what model it was though.
That was BAD TO THE BONE! I didnt realize I watched this for an hour! I always learn something interesting from
your show.Thanks dude keep up the great work.
Brad, when you get to working on that bass neck, hope you consider dong a video on it.
It'll get a vid. Thanks for watching, Carl.
He better get it dong!
I tell you everything what I know about the Randall. It's basically a Twin Reverb amp in solid state. These amps was Don Randall's first design, when he left Fender. The RG-90, that you have seen there, is a 120 watts 2 channel all clean amp. It has 2 inputs for each channel. (a hi and low sensitivity) On the channel 2 you have a spring reverb, and a tremolo effect. Channel 2 is slightly louder. It was available in several versions. The bass version has no effect, but except that the amps are the same. And you had different cabinet options also, 1x15", a 2x12" and a 4x12" combo version, and it was also available in a head version. (i found it out of a 1974 advert that was on the Internet) I have the 2x12" version of the RG-90. I believe all of them used eminence speakers, but on my amp's speakers are missing any numbers. Maybe you can help me indentyfing them. Anyways the speakers are 8 ohms. (they are wired in parallel to get a 4 ohms load) I think these series was produced between 1971-1975. Any commander amp that i found on the web later than 1976 is RG-120. These series are the improved version of the RG-90. They added a master volume, a push pull gain and treble boost, and an effects loop. Except these they are the same. I have schematics for the RG-120 model if you are interested in. It's a bit low resolution, but it's well readable. And on the Randall's manuals site you can find the RG-120 manual. I can send you both if you want via email. I found also on the Nirvana wikia, Kurt Cobain used a Commander head in the early Nirvana days. (in 1988 i think) That's all that I know about these Randall amps. I investigated on the Internet for hours (because I have one) and I can confirm that's hard to find anything about these amps. Hope that helps :)
From my experience I can tell you it's an all clean, exceptionally loud amp for a solid state. It loves rockin' with pedals. :)
Oh I forgot to mention the RG-300 model. It's the same as the RG-120 except it is 300 watts. And the bass models was labeled RB.
The Cobain connection is interesting. A couple Matsumoku Univox pickups appeared in this video too. Same pickups Kurt was using on his Epiphone from around the same time, 1988.
nirvana.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Nirvana_equipment
Here's the link where i got the info. Very interesting :D a bunch of stuff is listed there also. Not the Randall is the only match from the list.
What a cool yard sale. Lots of tube amps to play with!
I learned a lot from this video. And as a bass guitar player, I’m glad you bought a bass from the seller.
I was at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago where it killed me - there was an old silvertone acoustic parlor guitar he was selling for $20 but it had a crack from the soundhole stright through to the tailpiece and I sat there trying to think if there was an easy fix to seal it but it was beyond me, I ended up getting a tiny hohner classical though for 5 bucks to teach my 2 year old on :)
Probably could have fixed the Silvertone with some cletes on the crack, but would have been a lot of work for little reward.
The Double Bass is so out of shape, poor thing.
Gary Ferraro What's your rate for a custom bass guitar? I'm interested in one and I'm willing to buy it without the electronics and strings.
Tall Man you are so right. I have never seen a yard sale that doesn't have lots of people buzzing around either. I never thought about that. Thank you for responding to my post. Have a blessed week my friend.
The thing that disturbs me those most is all those guitars in the hot sun!
If i was there, i wouldve bought every single piece of gear i don't care if it's broken or doesn't work.
I was tempted. My phone filled up with data while I was there and could not film all he had either. He had a couple of HUGE Allen Organ Leslie cabinets. One of them had 2x12" speakers on a turntable that spun around, 2x15' bottom speakers, and a chassis with 4x6L6 output tube sockets (no tubes). He had an old SIlvertone solid state PA system from the 70s with column speakers, and another little solid state SIlvertone amp. Lots of stuff I didn't get to.
The Guitologist Oh man, 2 Leslies?!
You shouldve taken them both! It doesn't even matter which model they are, they all go for over 1000$.
I wish I found anything musical instrument related at flea markets or yard sales
Keep looking. It's out there. Sometimes it helps to ask the sellers too. Found a 70s Fender Jazz bass up the street from my at a yard sale one day like that.
love garage sale gear, blast from the past, thanks for vid!
This video made me remember life before the internet. I hit flea markets, pawn shops, garage sales, etc... It was so awesome and exciting to see something cool and getting a good deal.
Now, everyone has a Google brain and the Ebay price tool. Totally took the fun out of digging around a pile of junk or going to a flea market.
You can still find great deals, but it's a lot of work and tons of luck.
WHY DIDN'T YOU GET *insert object of interest here* ?!?????
hahaha. Yep. I do the same thing though watching YT vids like this. But I'm usually like "pan over you dumb fuck!!! What's that over there!?"
Tons of fun, wall hangers.
A lot of them were parts donors for sure.
at my age i remember most of this stuff, i have to admit it was nearly all junk then as it is now, but a good vid thanks for sharing mate,
Very cool. I really enjoyed watching your hunt for the elusive vintage beasts Brad. I hope you video some of the amps as you go through them.
They'll all get videos eventually, I'm sure.
coolest yard sale ever!
Nice video!
Excellent. That guy has his priorities straight!
In 1966 I bought a Apolo 6 string that looked just like that 12 string you got. Same color and the give away was the 3 push switches by the neck. That Magnatone would have been a real jewel to have! Thankz
I dream of finding deals like this.
Love the look of that old Randall!
Yeah, it was definitely a cool piece. An early one, for sure.
Cool stuff you got at a yard sale. I have a vintage Trump acoustic guitar I found in the garbage one of my neighbors threw away. I'm left handed. I restrung the guitar and it plays perfectly. It could be as old as 80 years old! Nice Find for free! It's the best playing guitar I have in my 8 guitar collection. I also found a Hanna Montana acoustic guitar in the garbage. It's right handed and I want to sell it. It might be worth more in the future.
I found a evh Wolfgang special with case and Yamaha amp. Sold amp for 1,200.00. Talked the lady down to 35.00 for the both. Once in a lifetime.
Looks like usb-b cable for power on the pre-amp.
It is, but I was thinking out loud about modding the power to use a wall wort or even a battery maybe so I could use it with my camera setup.
good idea, simple solution... nice channel :-)
Yard sale? Looks like a graveyard the condition on those instruments is really sad to see
Could easily fix up a lot of that shit
I bought a sweet Gibson Twin Reverb ,like the Doors Robbie Krieger preferred, at a church rummage sale,,,for $40. Still have it, still play it. Picked up my B.C.Rich the same day,different seller. White Strat shaped body with Pollock-ish paint splats which is cool for me as I am a painter. $100. A good day indeed. Interesting point of interest; To simulate the sound of thunder heard on the Doors "Riders on the Storm" Krieger would give the amp a light kick and the amp which featured a sheet of tin hanging in a resonant chamber, and that would create the sound of thunder.
SCHWAYYYYY!!!!
MY UNCLE HAD A SIGNED PROMO FROM OR KY HEADHUNTERS!!!
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Hold on, let me get a U-haul. :-)
There's something sort of unsettling about that garage sale.
Like an episode of Tales from the Crypt?
Man, he had all this stuff just settin' in his driveway when you drove up? This is like the "secret backroom" in vintage guitar shops! If I saw that I'd leave a groove in the earth getting up that driveway.
Even necks that don't detach can be straightened if you want to take the time and have a little ingenuity. First thing is to back the truss rod all the way off. I used this method on a guitar that did not have a truss rod, so I'm not sure how that effects things. You make a jig to bow it backwards, but I used bass tuners to do it a little at a time. Steam the neck, then tighten it a bit, don't over do it. you let it sit in the jig, and wait, I went day by day, steam then tighten, over and over day after day.. the one I had looked like a bow to shoot arrows with, so it took a long time to get it into playable shape. The bow in this one isn't nearly that bad, so you might be able to get it done in just a few hours.
god i just wish i had one guitar
What the... You didn't get the Magnatone? I Thought that would be the first thing in the car. I'm movin' to Kentucky. Can ya get me a Green card?
It would have been but he was a little high on price I thought.
Yeah, the Magnatone stood out. But that Valco could be a real steal, too.
Well you know Kentucky is right next to Nashville.
The guy said that Greg Martin (of the Kentucky Headhunters) was interested in the Magnatone. That was a clue that the price would not be a bargain.
the neck on that bass is not too bad, i restored a 60s hofner bass for a
friend once it had an action three quarters of an inch high from the fretboard
with a set neck too, but i got that off and re-jigged the thing for him, new strings on and it played real well , i loved this video brad, if i ever lose faith in whats cool about
taking time to fix up and restore cherished old gear, i rustle up some of your
youtube posts,, its genius, keep em coming !!
Oops! sorry about my previous post, I paused the video before you identified that amp as a Gregory - I just got excited when I saw it and I thought that I was being helpful to identify it, but you already knew what it was. Still, very cool. Now I wish someone would buy mine!
what a freakin bunch of junk ..!!
I remember all that badly playing crap from my youth
I would have liked that Earth to mod, tho ..
I would have grabbed the Earth but it was solid state. The stuff I got won't be junk when I'm done with it. I can promise you that. ;)
not the stuff you bought ..!!
just all the derelict teisco crap he had in pieces ..!!!
the Earth was -- SS ..!!!
holy crap, never seen onna them ..!!
a true hoarder of .... JUNK
I cannot for the life of me figure why anyone would want a teisco other than pointless nostalgia or a wallhanger. I have seen them sell for stupid money for the last 5 years or so.
1960s Japanese guitars have a bad rap among people my age and older because when set beside the American stuff of the time, the quality wasn't there, and the setups were ATROCIOUS from the factory. But when you spend some time actually setting them up properly, moving bridges for porper intonation, shimming necks for proper action, dressing frets, alkl that good stuff, they can be really nice playing guitars with a kitsch style of their own. PLUS, the tone of the pickups on most of these you cannot get with anything else. If you want that dirty blues grit and bite with certain amps especially, you have to have one. There is no substitute for the real thing. I have a series of videos on my channel comparing the tone of a bunch of these old Japanese guitars, you should check it out: czcams.com/video/rN-6_Bl58lU/video.html&index=1
of course not
some people know that SS of that era will sound like ass
13:15 Am I missing something? Wouldn't you just need a standard usb 2 A/B cable for power?
Yes, it will draw power via USB. And it's just a 2 channel audio interface, but I was loosely thinking about modifying the power supply to accept a wall wort and using it on my camera setup. Though I might not.
Thanks for clarifying, I thought I missed something
Nice yard sale to find, I would be past broke before leaving it, a lot of nice guitars I could add to my collection
I have the 440 custom Maggie and all of them are the best sounding overdrive amps... Imperial accordion works in Chicago did a truly great job on those... making a cute single 12 amp that would give you a convincing almost leslie tone for your accordion... but with high fidelity and volume that put the Cordovox rigs to shame. AND also crossed over locally to the blues and early ROCK scene as roaring little combos that you hear ALL OVER Bo Diddley records... and a lot of them thought that Bo was using Maggie pitch changing trem... and on a very FEW occasions he did... but almost all of the early sides he did were with the electromechanical DeArmond vibrato unit... which was a true swampy MOJO box if ever there was one. but mad respect for the early maggies, which had the best VARISTOR VIBRATO, that Fender tried to steal insuccesfully with their vibroverb... and 2 years before Fender made their first verb amp. Maggie's had verb, and Fender never touched their tone, because the Maggie's had capacitance based pickups in their reverbs... which sounded other worldly... univox would borrow that later with their amps.... the difference is night and day honestly.
This guy lives in Kentucky and stores stringed instruments in a non-temp/humidity-controlled garage. I mean, I get that after so many hundreds of instruments have accumulated in one single-family house, it becomes difficult, but all that vintage stuff that *could* be in really good shape if it was just given a marginal level of care.....
What a fun day, AND the gentleman knew some of the backstories too! I hope you got home and made yourself a great sandwich!
Days like this is what makes it all worthwhile. This is the fun part of what I do, digging through the honey holes.
Living where I do, in Colorado white a pop. of less than 1,000, there are no shops of stores that I can find within 100 miles, so your "yard sale" piece was a great escape.
Sounds like you need a road trip.
My closest shop is 50 miles and it's a rarity I get to go there!
I’ve never even seen a guitar let alone a vintage amp at any yard sale. I live next to the Fender factory so you’d figure I would by now. Been going to them for 30 years all over Southern California.
My first amp was an Earth Tweed 410. I purchased it used in 1976 in Northport NY.. It kept blowing a transistor. I had Sam Ash repair it and they guaranteed the repair. They replace that transistor every 3 months. for 2 years...LOL I Should of just brought it back to Earth in Huntington NY
Is that a Fender acoustic bass in the back of that bin at 8:18?
Yes. The Onboard preamp was missing from it and it had been dropped on its end at a store and smashed on bottom. STill playable as an acoustic bass, and probably could havbe gotten cheap, but, eh. Didn't need it lying around getting in the way, making my wife scream at me.
Did you think it was worth fixing up?
Do any of them go to 11?
Yes, but whatever you do don't touch them. In fact, don't even LOOK at them.
Anthony Simeone Peavey Classic 30's go up to 12.
i love your vids, can't beat people who maintain and repair old electronics
You walked right by the Hummingbird and focused on mostly junk, or a rebuild a guitar commitment. I’m not a Luthier in this life time! When you were approaching the garage my ears and fingertips were watering at what you would choose, and show us. I skipped by a bit of the video, so if you did ask the guy about the Hummingbird, my apologies.
I used to read meters for the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, and being that almost all the meters were located in the basement, I ran across every imaginable instrument, and I was offered pianos, guitars-Basses- even a guy who built Violins and Cello’s in his basement shop! Unfortunately, I was 19 and had several Guitars already so didn’t take the ones I saw that were offered to me. I could kick myself in the ass today, forty years later! Not to mention having sold my guitars as the years went by, and I got shit that’s all for them! That’s what dope will do to you. Lost everything but my life, and I’m grateful to have the Guitars I picked up in Recovery.
The first one I picked up in 1989-an outstanding Martin HD-35 that came from God’s hands to my arms!
I still would like to know the story about the Hummingbird, if you know! Lol
One of Gibsons best acoustics if you get a good one! Even an Epiphone Hummingbird that was made right is a sweet Axe! I have the Epiphone Dove here and it’s a great sounding Acoustic, and feels great as well!
Peace, Love and all that good stuff!
“Good Shepherd,” by Hot Tuna and “Embroyinic Journey” by the Airplane, are really nice guitar work by Jorma Kaukonen!
A lot of history there. But most of it is plain garbage.
To me it is big time too but to some its gold. They love the tones the old stuff puts out
That's what's going to happen to me; my mom's going to kick me out and stuff all my musical equipment in a bucket and sale it at $5. bucks a pop.
Better mow the lawn!
ben wright lol, my mom gave all my old 80's toys to goodwill , which I was super bummed about .
what a very informative video, thanks to you and the gentleman seller for bringing me along i learned a lot cheers.
Christmas of 1989, I got a Kingston Strat copy, made in Korea, out of the Sears catalog. It was about $130, but my ex father in-law, a pro guitarist, said it felt and played exactly like one of his vintage Strats.
Reminds me of a car guy whose garage is full of old VW Beetle and Ghia parts! "Oh, and I got these 'Star' brake adjusters at the dump, and..."
im sure youve figured it out by now, but that "power" socket on your computer preamp is actually a connection for usb. you can use a standard cable that has connectors for USB-b on one end and a USB-a on the other.
@13:10 - That thing with the Mic and Instrument inputs, with +48V phantom power is probably a digital audio interface for a PC. The "power jack" on the back of the unit is a professional USB plug. Most keyboards use the same type of USB cable.
These guitars seen better days. I own 12 guitars and all of them are in great condition because I keep them indoors, dress the frets, dust them off, and I make sure they avoid getting dented by other goods.
This PA is immaculate--Only driven by a little only lady in church, once a week…No Overdrive..
I had a garage sale back in the day. Put an add in the paper mentioning musical equip.
Met a really interesting guy who bought out everything on the spot.
I started regretting doing that 10 years later around 2005 when old vintage stuff started spiking in value.....
He probably didn't keep any of it that long.
There was another one of those chrome "whatevers" in that box, don't throw it out. Congrats, cool find. Was just visiting my kids and grand kids in Louisville and Finchville We had beautiful weather there this week, with the exception of Thursday when I flew out.
I love that you have a Jag Waar too! You are too cool. Wish you lived closer to me. Thanks for the videos.
EV Musicasters were the most-desired PA speakers in the early 60s. Indoor/outdoor, speech or singing, they were the best thing available.
I have an old Gretsch that had a similar neck bow... a buddy of mine advised I keep it in the bathroom for a month or two... the humidity really helped with the truss rod adjustment.
I have never seen so many guitars or amps getting sold at once in a yard sale heck I don’t even think I’d seen one or the other being sold so this was intriguing
This might be too late , but the power cord you didn't get is a simple type b usb cord. Probably easier to find if you ask for a printer cable.
What i love about guitar yard sales is you dont know what you will find you could uncover a rare guitar or amp thats been in someones attic or garage for years . i would have bought them all and done them up and sold them
That preamp/headphone amp looks like it has a USB port, so it probably runs on a 5 Volt USB charger or power supply. Don't tear it apart...you just need a USB A-B cable and one of those cheap grocery store phone chargers (preferably something better with less noise). Lots of recording-related equipment these days runs on USB power for use with computers. That preamp might even have digital output through the USB port for recording directly to computer-based DAW (digital audio workstation) software. USB has become sort of the universal power source and data transfer interface for computer peripherals and cell phones.
Thanks for the comment, Duncan! Yeah, I knew it was a USB, but I was thinking about making it into a preamp and phantom power supply for my camera mics. Just thinking out loud really.
That's the same USB plug port that's On Peavey VYPYR Amps.
That's on the Pre Amp you showed.
13:03 that's a home studio audio interface, and it is usb powered, so you will need an usb 2.0 cable to connect it to your pc/mac.
Don't know if you know this trick or not, but if the truss rod works on the bass with the bent neck, you can loosen the truss rod completely, take a 2x4 on it's side and clamp it down to the neck on the fretboard side, obviously using the back of the neck for the other side of the clamp. A radius block works even better. This will force the neck straight. Let it sit for a few days, then before removing your clamps re-tighten the truss rod until you feel a bit of tension. Then remove the clamps. With a little luck it should reset the truss rod with enough wiggle room to back-bow it if you so desired. You probably already know that trick or some even better. But for those on the comments wondering how, I thought I'd post it.
Nice pickings.I like the john deer, the no name 12 string guitar, and that bass with the thumb rests and bar on the tuner that's cool.all unique in thier own way.
The 12 String Electric with the Kawai pickups was marketed in the USA as an APOLLO !! Looks like most of it is there. Missing the metal guard the covered the bridge and tail piece. The control knobs were round top brushed silver with a flair bottom. They were mark V and T on the top. Have fun with it !!
even though I don't know anything about guitars, I bet that looked like a heaven for guitar players.
OMG! I bought that same amp, the Model 6000, a couple years ago. That amplifier was made by Gregory Amplifiers and I think it was sold by Montgomery Wards. The funny thing is, I'm having a garage sale now and put that out there and not a single person showed any interest in that or any other tube gear I had for sale. Brad, you did a post a couple years ago on your Facebook page about this company so you already know the name. There was a pretty comprehensive page on these kind of obscure amps but I'm having trouble finding it now.