Playing the guitar for me is something of a passion I've had for over 25 years now. I've produced music, wrote my own, mastered music into an album. Live performances, and even built a few guitars too. I like rock and metal and the true artist behind it. But looking at my amp, guitars and FX rack. I wonder if there is any silly over priced junk that you could buy if you were stupid and rich. And I found a few beauties.
1 – Now I know how much getting the perfect sound means to some musicians, but to go out and spend £35'000 on a Dumble Overdrive Special head amp if fucking insane. I know some top end amp heads can be expensive at say £2'000 a pop, but there is no way in hell that the time, man hours and parts would come to anything near half that. But apparently they sell. To drug addict guitar and bass players with more money than sense.
2 – If like me you play guitar, you will have a handful of guitar picks that you keep loosing, they cost next to nothing to replace right? Whatever you do, do not loose a Meteor Starpics Pick, at a value of $5'000 AUD EACH!!!!!. That would suck. But the value of these picks is somewhat worth it or not depending on how you view it. To the perfectionist, these picks produce the ultimate tone. To others like me, they are a pick made of stone that will break at the sight of Djent Metal. And I have broke a fair few pics.
3 – I have sold some of my custom guitars for a good profit but still under the £3k mark. Most high end or even custom guitars will be at that same price point too. There are the odd old or rare ones that crop up occasionally, but if you have a spare $100'000 sitting around behind a fridge or in a wall, you could ring up Rock Royalty and ask for their top end Kaged guitars that's wrapped in real animal skin like snake, gator, (maybe not cats or dogs though) and its encrusted with nearly 30cts of black diamonds. I wouldn't say no to one.
4 – Now I have a microphone for my amp to digitally capture onto recording software and I have a vocal condenser microphone, both cots me about £150, not to bad right. Well if I had the spare drug money or blood diamonds hanging about I could of gone and bought a Telefunken ELA M251 Dynamic Microphone for £12'500. for that price it better make sure that my tone deaf singing comes out pitch perfect and they lay me a golden egg.
5 – Drum kits are the centre and basis for any band, the chap playing them better have good rhythm. And they are fairly simple design, a round cylinder with a skin on it that you bang. A friend of mine once spent his entire student loan on a double bass drum kit at about £4k and I thought he was mad. But apparently someone who loves Ringo star and the beetles spent £1.4 million. Just think about how much that is for a drum kit... take your time. I agree, the guy was nuts and probably had the same scouse haircut and nose.
Fucking stupid I know. But money makes people stupid and they buy shit they don't need or will never use.
Thanks for reading.
Stu @TechMojo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumble_Amplifiers
http://universeofluxury.com/weird/most-expensive-guitar-pick/
http://www.rockroyaltycustomguitars.com/kaged_guitars.html
http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/Telefunken/ElaM-251
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35014830