Why Are Guitar Players Obsessed With Vintage Gear?
Why are so many guitar players obsessed with vintage guitars, amps and pedals? Is vintage gear really that much better than modern stuff?
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Originally posted by UCCJ56k8nBeqWLoxNa6DToAQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqZAX9X1eYc
I strongly dislike antique guitars and amps.
As I see it, Tube amps will eventually be completely extinct , as it will be impossible to find tubes and parts for them. Guitars from those eras will be museum relics at best. All will be completely unaffordable and impractical for use for the average working class people.
Modern > Vintage
Nice to own,like a57 Chevy,but not a nessesity,just a money pit,most non musicians would agree,save for one cheaper but just as nice looking,and sounding
I do not care. It will not make you a better player.
Recently acquired my first vintage guitar – a 1960 Gibson ES-125t. I was chasing a specific sound when I purchased the guitar and it perfectly embodied what I wanted. Now that I've had it for a while, it amazes me how it is the first thing I grab. It's as if it were just made for me and what I want in a guitar. It amazes me that it had 64 years of its own life before it became such an important part of mine. I think that's part of the magic of a vintage guitar.
I have an ORIGINAL Digitech Bad Monkey. Yours for 6k ????
One word “mojo”
Pre VTS Martin Authentics, especially 2005-07 D18As. They have a unique sound.
Something ignored today, unpopular today or a limited run will be tomorrow’s 59 Les Paul
As a synth enthusiast, the Synthoma Elkorus is without question my most prized piece of gear. The Elkorus is a rackmount analog effect unit that perfectly simulates the chorus/ensemble effect found in 1970s string machines such as the Solina String Ensemble and the Logan String Melody. The heart of the Elkorus is 3 BBD chips that are essential in this sound, and they're the exact same ones that the original string machines in question used. Those chips being the legendary TCA350Y.
Anyway, I'd like to think of the Elkorus as a time machine and takes you back to when string machines were a vital instrument in some of the greatest songs of the 70s, and also some amazing film scores. It's that ensemble effect sound that has hit a certain market of players. You hear it one time and you know… It just hits a certain sweet spot that people just after and new players want that sound for there own sound exploration. It really is thing of beauty to just run a simple sawtooth wave through it and almost instantly, the magic happens. You're right there back in 1975 or 1978.
Not sure how I missed this vid but glad I found it now. I tend to purchase gear to fill a particular need for a particular job. They are tools. I play in basically two genres church and musicals. At church as the only guitar player, its acoustic through some pedals straight into the board, some 12-string work and some mandolin. In the pit typically using Tele, Simi Hollow body, through Vox AC-15, and acoustic through acoustic amp, and pedals. Have used 12 string acoustic in the pit. The point is they are all tools to do a job. Vintage? Not really. Great vid kiddo!
Never got the appeal.
Guitarists are morons basically. My double bass is well over a hundred years old and still in good nick, bought it for 1400. The vintage guitar market is the only proof you need for this
I have given up on vintage. I want guitars that stay in tune and play great. I get the wood quality but to spend 100 grand for a piece of wood I just. cant. PRS produces great guitars, and I really think some of the early ones and some special runs like the NF3 may have some value someday. I also think that some shred guitars like early Jackson's and even foreign made kramers may have young generations seeking out these well-made and cutting-edge (for their time) instruments.
Someone needs to make a recording of a good player, playing some actual riffs from those days, straight through a Deluxe R, or Tweed, hidden behind a screen with guitars from the 50s/60s and then playing through new custom shop guitars so that we can vote on whether or not the vintage sound any better. I've heard new Squier strats that sound great but that might not apply for all guitars. Great video. I too have the mania but the cure for a lot of us could be a blind taste test/scientific comparison. The other problem is that speaker choice is pretty huge and it's subjective. I would stick to period-correct speakers or vintage boutique which is often fantastic.
The way I look at vintage gear is art. It like buying a Rembrandt or having the original Mona Lisa. I bought and sold a lot of sixties, seventies guitars and a few fifties which I regret. In fact, I just bought a 1966 Fender Jazz Bass that I wanted. It was the closest I come to a 1965 candy apple jazz bass that I was on the hunt for 40 years. A friend offered me his 1965 original Candy apple jazz bass just last week for $9,000. Now I have the problem of getting another guitar pass my wife.
Personally, I don't care for vintage what so ever.
I like my guitars and gear in general to be modern and cutting edge.
Ive never empathized with the opposite preference much at all.
The closest I could surmise on my own is that people idolize old players, and want to use their gear, in the same way as how one might want the same from a modern artist.
But why a preference for old tech and old aesthetics in general evolved from this, I don't get.
When you get a old guitar, it has a story, aged a little so it develops it’s own tone changes. And even better you know it’s something people can’t just go get
Vintage does not sound better or why make more? Craftsmanship is better in vintage? BS! Thats just a bunch of crap. A vintage car is crap compared to the new. RARITY is another topic but sound in vintage is NOT better. Do a blind test and you would fail 99 out of 100 tests. We are brainwashed about an old guitar and really thinking we have a GRAIL guitar when its just an old worn out guitar. I have a friend that is truly a virtuoso guitar player and without a doubt, he is a world class player. He plays an old Takamine ( not vintage) and a G&L Strat. He played those for 15 years and his sound was incredible. Finally he upgraded to an entry level Martin acoustic. Nobody EVER thought his tone was poor. EVER. Go find an old guitar, but that old beast is NOT better in sound or feel. Thats crap. Close your eyes and take a guitar in hand, and I'll bet you will not have a clue what your playing. Great guitar players can play the fricken' Broom handle and make it sound amazing. I love vinatge gear but its all an illusion and brainwashing. Buy what ever you want, but dont ever think you need a vintage piece of gear to sound better. Blind tests are the real deal. Do that and find out you're just delusional.
As a 31 year old I definitely am not obsessed with vintage gear, but I’d imagine that could maybe change if I could actually afford vintage gear. But if I was in my 60s and grew up listening to bands of the 60s and 70s at the same time those bands were changing the course of music history I can definitely see how the nostalgia could drive that obsession. With that being said, old worn in guitars just feel better like your favorite worn in hoodie
I love vintage gear! I think they have like their own soul and personality that once you play them, they are telling you what kind song compose or the way how to play, it is strange to hard to explain to somebody that maybe likes more own new gear but in my experience there is something magical ???? when you play some old stuff, I mean not all the vintage stuff speak to you and inspire you to create something but most of them are very special.
As 75 year old vintage human who has and does own some vintage gear….its hype. There is no way a 59 Les Paul is worth hundreds of thousands more than a new one as an instrument. If you’re a collector with money to burn go for it but personally I’m against collectors that take instruments off the market just to hord them.
The same reason people keep talking about the Beatles… money.
when he said 'there seems to be some sort of a spectrum for guitar players' i think he answered the question hahah
Just wondering why we didn't see Dave on here. I would of liked to hear his thoughts too.
Klone Centuar – Playing through your nose. Thank you Tim…
I accept that i will never own a old original '59 Les Paul which makes me love my 2018 true historic R9 that much more.
It deliver's everything i want from a Les Paul so i am satisfied.
maybe there is very small pockets of exception but, nothing from today will be collectible for the same reason baseball cards from the 1990's wont ever be worth anything.
They didnt make a lot of old baseball cards, and they were not regarded as something you take care of. Then collecting got hot, and the market got oversaturated with high-quality cards.
Just too many petfect examples of those cards.
Same with vintage guitars, they didnt make many, many were destroyed or altered, many were just beat from being used. Today there a gazillion guitars being made to very exacting repeatable standards, so there will just be too many of them.
This was wonderful buddy. Best vid you've done for me. All of them are gold, though. LOL Cheers Rhett. I adore the past and lore. Thats the truth. Thats why I want vintage honestly.eL Ch
Guitar players are suckers.
You may be obsessed with vintage gear, but I'm not. Old gear is more likely to have issues and need expensive repairs. Like most players my age, I never had that 'old is good' mentality. Murphy Labs is ridiculous, and I laugh at people that pay extra thousands for somebody to trash out their guitars.
I grew up seeing Marshall Plexi style head all over the place. You could buy them 5 at a time pretty cheap. Nobody wanted them because they didn't have pre amps. But 5 at a time and take all the best parts and make 1 or 2 good ones.
It is not a 'we' thing. "We" know that you are obsessed with old stuff. But i am absolutely not.