ppolios wrote:someone asked about levene's bean. i have a bunch of old footage where he plays 2 different 3000's

-Paul

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so... does one of them have the controls up close to the strings, as opposed to down in the corner?

chrissummerlin wrote:I have a TB500. I never use it. Its totally stock. £3000 GBP. Didn't think so....

ill swap you an '84 ultra gp 1431 for it. no? didnt think so...

im not get a 500 for £1500 am i?

holmes wrote:

chrissummerlin wrote:I have a TB500. I never use it. Its totally stock. £3000 GBP. Didn't think so....

ill swap you an '84 ultra gp 1431 for it. no? didnt think so...

im not get a 500 for £1500 am i?

how about a 1000S for $2,000 US? it's got the dot inlays, just like you like!!

I guess I was saying I wouldn't sell mine though the Ultra GP (presumably Ovation yeah?) is a badass guitar. I got mine for £400 off the guy who wrote the Ultimate Guitar Book. He knew it was worth more but he said he knew I wanted it, would play it and would never sell it. I got to keep the karma balanced!

they do kick some serious cheek dont they? i managed to get mine pretty cheap $1200 us buy it now. better than the $3250 i saw one go for. oh well - search for the 500 goes on!

aidswolf looks to be a bit of a jackass. i'm glad he didn't win it, assuming that's even a real account. look at the bid history. he "accidentally" put in a bid of $22,000, which he retracted after he found out what the then-current high bidder's maximum bid was. shady, shady move. unless it was, um, legitimately, uh, an uh, accident. yeah...

that was a fun auction to watch. especially since i was simultaneously hoping that nobody would bid, so i could offer steve $2K cash for it, and also hoping it would sell for as much as possible, so i could just spend my money recording at electrical instead of fighting urges to get into any kinda near-$2K bidding war. as soon as it broke $2300 i was like, alright, i'm not even gonna think about bidding anymore. it sold for less than i woulda thought, but still, not bad. i'm sure it's much more than steve paid for it 15 years ago. everybody wins!!! except aidswolf. HA!

BadComrade wrote:A quick google search for "waitebt" shows "Southside Guitars" to be the new owner of this odd TB3000. I think it's the father of the members of this band:

http://www.gojangle.com/go/profile.php? ... t&letter=W


What do you think he's gonna do with it... play it in his band, or put it in his store for $5,000 and hope some kid knows who Zeni Geva are?

Or maybe have it refinished and try to pawn it off as an "original" TB3000?

if you look on that website you linked, the contact email for that band is waitebt at aol... so maybe it's not his dad that owns the store but rather he himself owns it? whatever the deal is, i find it pretty interesting. so that's nice.

it would be so shitty to refin it and sell it as original, though it would take a guy who wasn't gonna research it to buy the thing, what with the super-high serial number on the neck.

the best part of that band's website?

"West just finished recording a new album in Portland and now we are broke. We welcome any and all contributions – please send your cash, or hockable possessions to [edit by moderator]Address Removed[/edit]."

heh. broke. heh.

aidswolf are friends of mine from montreal, and are huge us maple / zeni geva / shellac fans. the guitar player had his poor canadian heart set on getting this wedge. oh well.

they make posters: http://www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=26758

jayryan wrote:aidswolf are friends of mine from montreal, and are huge us maple / zeni geva / shellac fans. the guitar player had his poor canadian heart set on getting this wedge. oh well.

they make posters: http://www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=26758

shit. sorry to hear that. still though, on the surface anyway it looks like they went about bidding in a kinda shady way. making a $22,000 bid on accident... it's entirely possible, but looks so very suspicious. i'm sure i've been at least slightly biased by the "aids" part, too, which i now assume is cool in a way i don't immediately get. if call them friends, then obviously they are not shitbags.

a consolation prize for him though, i can get him some US Maple memorabilia if he'd like. i think they left at least a couple set lists and who knows what else when they vacated the practice space. i'll keep an eye out for anything an enthusiast might enjoy and let you know, when i finally get around to cleaning the giant mess up.

it's funny how easily my opinion can be swayed. now i'm bummed that it went to, apparently, either a gear dealer or a kid with a name that smacks of old money, rather than the canadian who's a hardcore fan and friend to a known good guy.

oh well!

it would not surprise me at all if they made a bidding error.

they are not sneaky people.

again: oh, well!