Vintage guitars and vintage guitar amps. Who knew how much those Fender & Gibson guitars and amps  would be $ worth back then? Being a guitar player and drummer in the 60’s was an experience only appreciated by musicians who were there. Remember what it was like wishing you could save enough money to buy your first good guitar. Back then your parents were not going to buy it for you or lend you the money- no way. The only way to get the guitar, amp, or drumset  you wanted  was by purely working and earning the money for it. And the # 1 rule was to never reveal the true price you paid for the instrument to your parents- because afterall you worked for the money to pay for it and it was yours, a true teenage musician learns fast that feeling of  $ money in your pocket to musician broke! Or if you were fortunate you might convince your parents to lend you the money to buy a Sears Silvertone amp. Well, my point is is that we never dreamed that those Fender guitars, Gibson guitars, bass guitars, keyboards and Gretsch drums could probably be the best investment of our life and we could have put our parents to shame if we held on to all the instruments we owned in our lifetime. Back then the word vintage only meant it was something you didn’t want because it was probably your fathers old guitar with 3 nylon strings stored in  your grandmothers attic or basement. Ahh the fun of learning to play guitar or drums--- could you imagine today that if your son or daughter wanted to play drums and you bought them a pair of drumsticks for their birthday and said , “ here I bought you a pair of drumsticks to learn to play the drums, “ just beat these sticks on this wood block and rubber pad  and we will see how good a musician you are and maybe next year we will get you a snare drum ”...  I don’t think so!    Copyright Jerry  2007

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