Ridiculous, idiotic, stupid...

[picker]

...and dumb to boot.

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bet it would go great with this:

 

https://reverb.com/item/244642-semie-moseley-s-personal-mosrite-blue-gospel-prototype-1965-67-transparent-blue

[Scott Fraser]

Yeah, that will sell, sure.

[hurricane hugo]

"Celebrity owned..."

 

Who? Did said "celebrity" use it on any recordings?

 

Because if it's someone like SRV, Clapton or Springsteen, somebody will cough up the cash. Guaranteed.

[desertbluesman]

It ain't hard to separate a fool from his money, especially a collector.

[Sharkman]

If that amp sells for $100,000, then I'm thinking Joe Bonamassa will quickly become an amp salesman.

[harvey]

Oh, I don't know...the shipping seems reasonable

[harvey]

....and at least it's got the footswitch...

[Larryz]

It's too expensive for my blood, no matter who the secret Celebrity turns out to be...I know it wasn't Elvis... :idk

[LeftyBlues]

Uh-oh, my cat stepped on my iPad and hit the buy it now button! I'll let you know how it sounds.

[Bluesape]

[whitefang]

Sorry...but every time I tried to read the link, it wouldn't fully load up, and I kept getting "security" warnings that caused me to have to shut down my PC by cutting off the power in order to get rid of it. So I still don't know all the particuars.

Whitefang

[BiC]

Idolatry sure is expensive...

[Fred_C]

Although this is an extreme case of idiocy, I must admit that I've never understood the whole "boutique amp" thing.

 

In this months issue of GP there is a review of the Carr

Skylark amp. It is a twelve (12) watt single channel 112 design based on 2-6V6, 2-12AX7, 2-12AT7 tubes. The street price is $2400.00. Although it is a beautiful design and undoubtedly has great tone, I have a hard time believing that it is 8 times better than my Ampeg GVT15-112 which has essentially the same tube compliment into a 12" Celestion. I bought the Ampeg on a closeout deal for $299 (the street price when the amp was current was $600). This is still 1/4th the price of the Carr.

 

I probably would feel differently if I were more affluent and could afford such extravagant equipment. But, that being said, it seems to me to be a case of "There's a sucker born every minute and two to take him."

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tangent: my Mom's younger Border Collie DID update the system software on her iPad2. And a buddy of mine had a girlfriend whose cat recorded the outgoing message on her answering machine.

 

I think cats & dogs are aliens from another dimension, monitoring us. THE INVASION IS NIGH!

[harvey]

Actually, I think I'll go for the head version

[SEHpicker]

Whats the difference between a $1000 amp and a $100,000 amp? - maybe a few hundred dollars worth of upgrades. Hmmmm...

[Fred_C]

"Whats the difference between a $1000 amp and a $100,000 amp? - maybe a few hundred dollars worth of upgrades. Hmmmm"

 

+1. Agreed!

[Scott Fraser]

Whats the difference between a $1000 amp and a $100,000 amp? - maybe a few hundred dollars worth of upgrades. Hmmmm...

 

The priceless cachet of having been used by a celebrity. Since that celebrity isn't named in the ad we can just assume it is Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian's former personal guitar amplifier.

[Caevan O'Shite]

Whats the difference between a $1000 amp and a $100,000 amp? - maybe a few hundred dollars worth of upgrades. Hmmmm...

 

The priceless cachet of having been used by a celebrity. Since that celebrity isn't named in the ad we can just assume it is Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian's former personal guitar amplifier.

 

To be fair, Elliot at Rumble Seat sold me two Les Pauls for VERY fair prices on the opposite (much lower) end of this price-spectrum, and one of them rather low-balled, at that- my beloved "Main Squeeze" sunburst. If he's got this Dumble amp listed as "celebrity owned", it's more than likely previously been owned, gigged and/or recorded with by a "name" player, someone like Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, or David Lindley.

 

Over the years I got to try out some very cool guitars in one of his stores, including the late James Honeyman-Scotts' triple-humbucker Les Paul Custom, a sweet dual-P-90 '56 Les Paul Custom previously owned by Jimmy Vivino, and a cool Gibson Les Paul prototype for a model-variation that never saw production.

 

Now- is this rare, highly influential, vintage amp that virtually created the "boutique" amp world, worth $100,000 (" + $165 Shipping" ! )? Apparently it is to someone, even if it's not to you or I, just as vintage Les Pauls and Strats are, or, say, Fabergé Eggs... He's just charging what the market will bear, can't blame him.

[02R96]

If you look carefully at the letter, it says it was owned by "Paul Allen (yes that rich guy)". Their words, not mine.

 

So it was owned by the former co-founder of Microsoft. That's the celebrity.

[Larryz]

Paul's worth 17.1 Billion...what the hell is he going to do with a $100,000 and why can't he just throw in the $165 shipping? :idk

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just because you're wealthy, doesn't mean you have lots of fungible cash on hand. George Washington was- adjusted for inflation- out wealthiest president. Yet he had to borrow the money to go on his first trip on foreign soil as our nation's leader.

 

Maybe Allen needs some "quick", interest free cash.

[Caevan O'Shite]

If you look carefully at the letter, it says it was owned by "Paul Allen (yes that rich guy)". Their words, not mine.

 

So it was owned by the former co-founder of Microsoft. That's the celebrity.

 

Aaaahh, I hadn't tried to blow up the image, I expected it would be too blurry to make out. Yeah, that "celebrity" association has a lot less cache for me, as well.

 

Now, enlarging it here- with fairly blurry results, as I expected- it sure looks like Joe Bonamassa's name and signature there at the bottom... Rumble Seat also has another, similar Dumble for sale, as well, a head/cab/"Dumbleator"/TC processor rig, with a similar letter accompanying it, and it also sure looks like JB's signature on that offering, as well. And yhup, Bonamassa owned and toured with a Dumble ODS combo, AND a Dumble ODS head, cab, and "Dumbleator" effects-loop with a TC Electronics rack-mount processor in a matching (Dumble?) enclosure, all identical to these that are up for sale here.

 

I think that, whether it ever belonged to Paul Allen, it is either Bonamassa's previous stage-rig (note that he recently switched to a quartet of vintage "tweed" Fenders), or a very deliberate duplicate somehow connected to JB (I have not tried to read the entire blurrily reproduced letter).

 

Either way, it's a seminal make and model of amp (if not the specific amp) that has been used on some very good, very well known, very influential recordings over the years (referring to Ford, Lindley, etc.); and still, if someone's willing to pay that- or even haggle down to, doubtlessly, a still very lofty price- then it's "worth" it. Tell me which of YOU would NOT sell it to someone for that much if they were willing to pay it, had the amp fallen into YOUR hands?

[Winston Psmith]

If they manage to sell the amp and the head, that's nearly a quarter of a million dollars for two, admittedly historic, pieces of gear, so I have to think, what else could you do with that kind of money? (For most of us here in the Forum, I think the answer would be something like, "Retire in comfort.")

 

To me, it's the flip side of the old, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" argument; if I have to ask why it's worth more than $100 grand, why bother?

[Dannyalcatraz]

You could hire A-Rod to play for the Texas Rangers!!!

 

(For a couple games...)

[whitefang]

The co-founder of Microsoft, in my opinion, is NOT a "celebrity". That delination MIGHT get him on "Dancing With The Stars", but THAT doesn't mean he's a celebrity either!

 

I'll offer them $100.....

 

From what I can see of it( still can't link the full ad), it couldn't possibly be worth more.

Whitefang

[Larryz]

Just because you're wealthy, doesn't mean you have lots of fungible cash on hand. George Washington was- adjusted for inflation- out wealthiest president. Yet he had to borrow the money to go on his first trip on foreign soil as our nation's leader.

 

Maybe Allen needs some "quick", interest free cash.

 

Things have changed since the days of George Washinton, Microsoft billionaires can have ready cash on their smart phones...

[Scott Fraser]

For an amp to legitimately be considered worth anywhere near $100,000 it had to have been owned by Hendrix, Lennon or Harrison. I don't see any living artist worth that kind of scratch. At the very top tier of legendary living artists, like McCartney, Clapton, Beck, Page, (but certainly not Bonamassa who can't seriously be seen as even on the same ladder, much less within more than a dozen rungs below the upper echelon) maybe half that amount in a very healthy economy. Just my opinion.

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just because you're wealthy, doesn't mean you have lots of fungible cash on hand. George Washington was- adjusted for inflation- out wealthiest president. Yet he had to borrow the money to go on his first trip on foreign soil as our nation's leader.

 

Maybe Allen needs some "quick", interest free cash.

 

Things have changed since the days of George Washinton, Microsoft billionaires can have ready cash on their smart phones...

 

True, but some things you don't want to that way, either for your own reasons or the reasons set forth by the other party.

 

Hell, I'm no billionaire, and there are certain purchases I make that do not involve more traceable transactions.

 

And it need not be nefarious. If, for example, you are secretly trying to buy a gift for someone who has access to info on your preferred eAccounts, you don't want to use those accounts to make the purchase.