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this for $55K on the bay
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- Feb 16, 2008
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actually, IME, those two might be worth what they're asking. i've seen '59/'60 les paul standards go for $250K-400K, and the '60 is mint. its hard to place a value on the Jackson's autographed one, since that one is more of a 'memorabilia' type item.
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Well, it's one to ask for 55K and another to actually be willing to pay that price. Can't blame him for trying, I guess.
Too much for such a simple machine. But even if the seller has to run 2 or 3 years worth of Ebay auctions, it would be worth it if he manages to sell it at that price. The odds are in his favor.
They may very well be to someone with that kind of disposable income but geez, even if I found the golden goose, I still couldn't see paying more for a guitar/bass than I paid for my house...it just doesn't compute.
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They may very well be to someone with that kind of disposable income but geez, even if I found the golden goose, I still couldn't see paying more for a guitar/bass than I paid for my house...it just doesn't compute.
Seriously, I could think of several thousand things I'd rather spend that kinda dough on. One being a house.
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They may very well be to someone with that kind of disposable income but geez, even if I found the golden goose, I still couldn't see paying more for a guitar/bass than I paid for my house...it just doesn't compute.
yeah. i agree. a very good friend of mine (that's a multi-millionaire), has a huge vintage guitar collection of 700+ guitars, including two '59 les paul standards. when he was about to buy the second one (four years ago), he asked me if i thought that $185K was too much for it. well, to me it was, so i told him that it might actually be worth that much, but i just couldn't imagine buying ANY guitar for that kind of dough. two days later, he bought it anyway and brought it to show it to me. it was beautiful, but man, IMO, kind of a liabilty. a year later, the guy that sold it to him offered him $285K to buy it back, but he didn't sell it to him. i guess that it goes to show that if you have that kind of money on hand, you could make $100K on it in a year if you spend it right and then have the right buyer with deep pockets for it.
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For a Les Paul to be worth $325k it better be made out of the bones of Les Paul himself....
I'm just saying....
However, the fact that Tito played the other one, well that jacks up the price right there.
One difference between the 6-figure Les Pauls and the Mosrite is that Les Pauls have an actual history of selling for very high prices. You'll note the first one is offered from Norm's Rare Guitars, who is a legitimate high-end dealer, in business for decades; you'd expect anything from him to have a high price tag (whether he gets that much in the present economy is another question, but, hey, he's in the trade and I'm sure he'll figure something out).
"Randy" is a typically nondescript Mosrite, a brand that was always a novelty act rather than the main event. The Ventures flogged them because they could make money from peddling them at shows, which they couldn't do with the Fenders they previously played. Mosrites always struck me as the Burns of the US: sorta almost there, but with enough peculiarities and design mis-steps that they were never the robust instruments that Fender or Gibson made.
Maybe the seller will get lucky with a Japanese Venturas freak, although it's hard to imagine that anyone would pay a premium price for an instrument that really has no association with the Ventures, or, in fact, any particular provenance at all other than the unsupported, and obviously self-serving assertion that it **might** be the last one made.
"Randy" is a typically nondescript Mosrite, a brand that was always a novelty act rather than the main event. The Ventures flogged them because they could make money from peddling them at shows, which they couldn't do with the Fenders they previously played. Mosrites always struck me as the Burns of the US: sorta almost there, but with enough peculiarities and design mis-steps that they were never the robust instruments that Fender or Gibson made.
Maybe the seller will get lucky with a Japanese Venturas freak, although it's hard to imagine that anyone would pay a premium price for an instrument that really has no association with the Ventures, or, in fact, any particular provenance at all other than the unsupported, and obviously self-serving assertion that it **might** be the last one made.
Doesn't it say that it was made in '92? Or did I read that wrong?
Edit:
"PERHAPS THE LAST GUITAR BUILT BY SEMIE MOSELEY
IN 1991."
It's only one year older than me...I'm one of a kind, I come with a bass, and I'll play it! Does that make me worth $55,000!?
Edit:
"PERHAPS THE LAST GUITAR BUILT BY SEMIE MOSELEY
IN 1991."
It's only one year older than me...I'm one of a kind, I come with a bass, and I'll play it! Does that make me worth $55,000!?
Wow???
Wow...........But,which wow???
(a)
As in,"Wow!!!
What a deal!!! What a bass!!!"(b)
OR,as in..........."Wow!!!! Yeah!!! Sure!!! BUT.....I want it (NOT the bass!!) without Vaseline!!!!
(c)
OR,as in....."Wow!!!! How stupid can these sellers be???"
I wouldn't buy that bass (for that price,anyway),even if my income was 10 X's the amount of Bill Gates' income.
Just my .02 cents worth.
