Gas..(Was Re: what an ass, I have a serious gear issue...

[Tony Scharf]

My gas has definitely changed recently.  I basically am on the lookout
for outboard, a korg m3 (need one for the rock band I am playing with)
and a poly analog.  That last one in particular.

If I could blow a huge wad of dough, I would get a studio electronics
code 8 and load it up.  That or con someone into selling me a sunsyn.
Ahh...feel the gas....

Tony



On 7/30/08, James R. Coplin <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
>> Think 30 years from now... you could have lost all interest in music,
>> but there's a good chance you'll still live in the same house.
>
> I'm not so sure.  I'm in my second house and I can see at least one more in
> the next 10 years.  With the current house market, I'm currently on the
> short end of the investment with the bank.  Not a big deal, it will flatten
> out and come back so I'm not concerned.  When everyone else fled to the
> suburbs with their SUVs for McMansions with hour long commutes, I restored a
> reasonable sized bungalow in the city and bought a Volkswagen Beetle.  Makes
> me laugh hysterically actually.  I'd take my bungalow over one of the crappy
> boxes out in nowhere anyday.  You can keep you 3000 plus square feet,
> anything over 2200 is too big.  Around 2000 is ideal if you have a kid.
> However, my house is worth less than what I paid for it if I had to sell it
> today.  Luckily I don't.
>
> On the other hand, my studio is currently worth far more than I paid for
> everything in it.  Granted, I've had an amazing run of luck and happened to
> get into synths right before the explosion of the analogue craze.  Back
> then, I was buying the analog stuff mainly because it was cheap.  The fact
> that I loved the sound was secondary to what I could afford.  I just wish I
> had purchased even more gear then.  Sales of my non-essential gear have put
> my setup where it is today without too much historical cash layout.  Also, I
> have had some instruments pushing 20 years now but my longest stay in my own
> house was only 13 years.  Considering I just moved last year to my current
> house, it looks like gear is going to win even if I chucked it all in
> tomorrow!
>
> Of course, I wouldn't really recommend gear as an investment.  You need luck
> and a crystal ball for that.  Moreover, despite the huge increases in gear
> prices lately, you probably still would have done better with a sensible
> market strategy with stocks, bonds, property etc.  That being said, I still
> can't believe someone paid $50,000 for a Roland System 700 on ebay recently.
> I totally get that is a unique instrument blah, blah, blah.  However, I
> could buy an amazing beautiful Steinway or Yamaha Grand Piano (which is a
> *real* instrument) for less and never be disappointed in the choice.
>
> James R. Coplin
>
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