It would be interesting to see the most expensive regular production items (no custom shop, no special edition, no vintage, no famous user, just expensive)
The strings I use for my six string bass are about $80 a pop, they go up about another 20 if you want them gold plated. But they're not custom, but I can do things with them that cannot be done on other strings. And since bass strings last a long time, they're not really a bad deal.
@@Shiggiesmalls02 -- they upload to youtube, but mark it "private", then send a message to their patreon supporters with a link to the video. Hours or days later, they mark the video as public and then anyone can find it.
I got to give Jim irsay, the Indianapolis colts owner, some credit where it's due. Yes he buys up most music memorabilia , but thankfully he actually goes on tour twice a year with his collection and his own life band so people can see everything he's bought if anything's in working condition in order they put on a show, and the tickets are never priced too high for the general public. He is a fan of music
The thing is, Hendrix had bought well over 200 Fuzz Face pedals (according to his sound engineer), because back in the day they all had a slightly different sound, due to a lack of quality control and the parts used. So, there must be hundreds of legit Hendrix FF pedals, but all but a few have been deemed to shit to use, by Hendrix himself. Maybe someone molted them down, into the gold cable.
My guess as someone who has read way too much about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain is that he would think that the Teen Spirit video blue Mustang sale is stupid, but not cause that big a fuss, but be absolutely furious about the Unplugged acoustic. I don't know what that judge was thinking ruling that kid had any claim to it at all. Horrible.
@@kodykindhart5644 Oh, there was another case trying to get it back, wasn't there? He allegedly sent guys to try to steal it, Courtney Love is involved? I need to do some research. I have memory problems, and I don't think I heard how everything concluded yet.
I would like to see a follow up that’s not based on rarity/ exclusivity. Like what’s the most expensive commercially available guitar, amp, strings, etc.
He sold one of his personal replicas for just under £1m uk about ten years back, in a charity auction. Although I don't think he's ever really used it Tony Iommi has a hand made lefthand replica of Brian's guitar in black. Which was Brian's 50th birthday present to him. Although I've only ever read about this in a couple of interviews from the time.
I doubt it would ever be sold to anyone but if it was it would probably go for about 8 million due to it being a vital part of music heritage and completely unique.
I’d like to see some ridiculous video where SRVs dumble, Jimi’s pedals, that gold cable, and a PRS dragon or vintage Zemaitas guitar is combined and we let a beginner play that rig and battle a pro with a Squier all in one guitar and amp pack
When Gary Moore first sold the Greeny guitar the guy who owned it took it to a guitar show and let people try it, though an original Marshall Blues Breaker, for $10. If you look out any of the videos most of them sound like everyone in a guitar store playing simple blues riffs out of time. It's in the hands not the gear.
It would have been interesting to know what's the most expensive mass-produced guitar. In other words, the price comes from the quality and brand, and all/most guitars produced by that company (or person) under the same brand/model cost about the same, rather than it being a unique guitar with historic collector value.
1:30 As part of that restoration, the Kahler tremolo on it was removed, the cavity left behind filled, and it was fitted with a stock Fender trem. I got a chance to talk to Charlie Chandler, the guy that did that work for David Gilmour. He has a shop in London. Coincidentally, he gave me a hand with the tremolo on my guitar, helping me make sure that the replacement I had in mind was going to fit.
I was immediately thinking of the 1959 D18E. Kurt didn’t like the pickups, didn’t like the sound. Prior to the unplugged show, he heard REM unplugged and liked the sound of their guitars. Their guitar techs talked and Kurts tech found out about the Bartolini 3AV pickup. That pickup was still in the guitar when it was auctioned off. The Buck Owens All American played by Pat Smear (owned by Krist Novoselic) was also fitted with a Bartolini 3AV. I’ve added the same pickup to a few guitars, including the Tele I use regularly as an acoustic for gigging.
@@jimbobbyrnes anyone with a brain would just spend another 10 bucks for a cable when it breaks rather than try and repair it. Not worth the effort unless it’s some kind of really valuable balanced cable in a studio or something
@@utterdisaster603 its literally a 30 second job. you actually have no clue. let me ask you this? do you buy new dishes everytime you eat or do you take the time to wash them? dishes are less than 10 dollars and take more time than rewiring a plug.
With David Gilmour's guitar, some of the mods are very interesting; Like the Gibson PAF humbucker he installed in January 1973 which was later removed in June 1973 for new single coil pick ups (you can see where David filled in the hole in the guitar where the pickup once was).
I dont mean to be that guy but if youre talking about the stuff below the bridge that would be because he installed a floyd rose style bridge but then decided to go back
My wife has a passion for traveling. Traveling is infinitely more expensive than music in my opinion. As a hobbyist that is. Once you’re in the big leagues I’m sure things might change.
100%! I play just to play but melt over new gear however I can never justify buying most of the things that catch my eye since I only really play for myself. You could call it a "personal investment" but at the end of the day, I'm just playing Papa Het riffs till my forearms can't go anymore 😂
Traveling is very cheap if you want it to be. It's all the things that make it more efficient and luxurious that makes it expensive... Exactly the same is true of playing guitar.
@@ThrillHouse666 you’re the worst type of guitar player. Driving up the price and making it hard for actual musicians and composers to get the tools they need 😡
I also wonder how Kurt would feel about his daughter inheriting his guitar, losing it in a divorce to a guy he never knew and then them selling it for a crazy amount of money. People will never allow him or Marilyn Monroe to just rest in peace geez.
6:48 analysis plus always be the most expensive cable I remember even 20 years ago. they are the "klon" of cable. People who obsessed with good tone bought that cable 😁
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Fun fact. Adjusted for inflation, Kurt Cobain paid about $11k for that guitar (5k 1992 = 11k 2023). That's pretty crazy for any new guitar off the shelf today.
Really appreciate these videos that are fun to watch and are different from other content in our guitar community. They are like the ginger you get with your sushi to cleanse your palate before going in for a different piece of fish.
If you wonder what Kurt would have thought about his guitars selling for that money, I suggest you watch the performance of Endless Nameless Live in Paramount. That is exactly what he would have thought.
kurts guitar was owned by Leadbelly and was bought by kurt because of the influence Leadbelly had on kurt. he even played "where did you sleep last night" by Leadbelly at the mtv unplugged
2 million dollar strat sounds like a one thousand dollar Strat, because that's what it is. It's the signatures and the cause which makes it worth 2 million
Something to consider. In 1973 Phil Lesh's "Mission Control" bass, absolutely packed with analog circuitry, cost $30k in 1973 dollars. That would be $180k US today. The intended amp stack consisted of six (one per channel) McIntosh MC2300 ($1800 US in 1973) and no less than four 15" JBL speakers per amp. Even if you aren't into The Dead, if you are a gear nerd, you should check it out. It's absurd.
I have been watching your videos for so long and you always inspire me. Thank you so much! I’m sad that I’ve missed out on the deals for your classes in the past. I’d love to become a better guitar player and break past this hardly intermediate wall I find myself at.
I thought for sure that Jimi Hendrix strat that was on an episode of Pawn Stars would be up there in the most expensive guitars. The video is on RUclips and their "expert" appraised it at $1.5m but that was a few years ago. I wonder what happened to it.
Even if had all the money in the world I’d probably still stick to my ‘86 Charvel model 4, an old jcm900 and an EQ pedal. I’d do buy a klon tho, it goes well into a Marshall as boost for solo’s, like a tubescreamer but beefier.
I've got a Boss HM-2 pedal which I bought some time in the 90's, it's one of the original run of HM-2's and the prices for those have gone a bit crazy here in the UK now. I also have an early 80's GCB Dunlop Wah pedal, again people are willing to pay big money for these early pedals.
Thank the swedes foe that one. I bought a waza craft reissue because I'd rather have an improved and more diverse pedal that's brand new for 150 than pay 200 for a beat to shit HM-2 just for the sake of vintage. People get real weird about those pedals to the point they actually argue about the Japanese ones sounding better than the ones assembled in Taiwan
@@Chudchanning I know, it's crazy really. I've taken the plunge into amp and pedal sims and I've got a few HM2 VSTs that sound just as good as the pedal does and they were all free downloads. I only play in my bedroom these days so I daresay if you were to put the real thing and my free downloads on some type of scope to test them there may be differences but for what I'm doing, and for the average Swedish Noise Jockey I reckon that they'd do the job just about fine
I hear that amps and whatnot are on the verge of being obsolete these days, I'm personally technologically illiterate so I have no experience with them but I'm sure they'll hold up on a record just fine. I have this doomsaw pedal that's modeled after the hm-2 that's pretty awesome, I've found it sounds best with a tube screamer though
Nice video and also Kurt would most likely hate the fact that his guitars are sold for so much because Kurt didn’t really want to be famous, he just wanted to make music, which is kinda the same reason he hated smells like teen spirit
That's a load of bullshit. If he didn't want to be famous, he could of just stayed home to make music in a studio. He wouldn't have went with a major label, signed the contract, went on tour and he certainly would have made any videos or did the Unplugged thing. That was just an act.
What I meant with the he wanted to make music is also wanted people to hear his music but he didn’t want to be famous he just wanted to play for people
I thought John Mayer's 200,000 dollar stage amp would be up there in the most expensive 🤣 You learn something new every day. But hey, I'm glad he got the SRV amp cause it's so cool to have something your hero owned!!!
Btw with the John Mayer dumble overdrive, that srv used to record Texas flood on, my guess is that it was lent form srv guitar tech Rene Martinez who is now john Mayer tech, I have heard that he lends John srv ts10 whilst they work together, not 100% sure at all but just a estimate
RF engineer and lute player here. I use RG316 cables with Jack connectors since a few years for the fidelity and good immunity to interference. They look exactly like that f* expensive crap in tge video, but they have a very specific purpose. Without entering into the boring physics, they avoid taming the high frequencies from high impedance sources that regular audio cables would cut away. This can be a game changer for piezos and some magnetic pickup. So, not snake oil, just some disproportionately expensive cables.
RG316 is also running anywhere from 1.19 a foot to over 30.00 a foot depending on where you get it and it's full specifications. I made a few J-poles from twin lead and ladder line for 2m/70cm and I made a very bodged guitar cable out of 300 ohm twinlead. It worked, but Ohhhh my word did it sound horrible. Or good. Depending on what you trying to make sounds of. That cable did blow the coil in my cheapo Danelectro battery operated amp.
When they first came out, remembered them at $400 per, but I just checked out the (SD) The Zephyr Silver Pickups on Sweet Water for $959.00. I would be curious to see you go higher than that (though, I wouldn't be surprised).
The thing about the Dumble that I think interesting is, Clapton plays one, but arguably his best know song Layla, was played on a Fender Vibro Champ. The V Champ being a really cheap practise amp, granted from an era when cheap practise amps had boutique features like, point to point turret board circuit, a plywood cabinet and a valve rectifier, but a cheap practise amp none the less.
Often small amps like this are used for studio recordings where the amp overdrives at low volume but for a live performance, a more powerful amp is better.
I'm pretty sure that one of Santana's original Mesa amps was sold for close to a million (for Carlos' charity) also Carlos' Dumble was valued so high that he couldn't afford the insurance to tour it anymore so had it cloned. Keith Richards tours with the second Fender Twin made, that must be worth a pretty penny. Marshall have been offered, but refused, £1m UK for the first ever Marshall amp. But it isn't for sale. Keith Richards also had a very early Mesa amp. He later swapped it with Jeff Beck for a guitar, Jeff then later traded it to Danny Gatton for a Model T. I'd guess if that one was ever sold it would sell for a heck of a lot.
I want to hear the most expensive commercially available setup without any of the auction stuff. And then compare it to a standard everyday set up like an American Professional Strat through a Fender tube amp. Then compare the setups via the same song A and B style 😁
What’s the most expensive production guitar and amp? Famous peoples stuff is expensive because it belonged to famous people not because people actually want the thing itself.
You have the hollow body itch too, huh? I was just checking out a The Loar LH-550 SN(L48/50 clone-ish) listed at a music shop nearby and went into a deep, deep rabbit hole on RUclips... from your channel to learning about the ancestry of the guitar(learned about the Tanbur for example). What am I doing it's actually 5am.
In a way guitarists have it fairly easy. I'm sure spending 1000s on a guitar isn't to be sneezed at, but what about other instruments?... Classical (professional) musicians usually play instruments owned by their orchestra, but some do have their own - and a violin, small as it may be, could be extremely pricy when it says something like "Stradivarius" 🤣🤣🤣 But playing keyboards can be expensive too. My Hammond B3 (1961, with Leslie 122) didn't come cheap, and thát was even before restoration - which added another 2k. And I don't even want to know what I've spent on synthesizers over the years... Music can a very expensive hobby, but an intensely satisfying, even therapeutic, one!!
Guitars have a life of about 100 years, electronics rarely last longer than 70 years (capacitors need regular charging or they fall apart, old resistors soak up water from the air etc.) and you have to consider that you can't name one artist from 100 years ago so once the boomer generation die off this stuff will be worth nothing. Thats why I play polished, mint guitars and despise 'relics', live now, be old later!
You can own srvs dumble for a pretty penny? Play let your fingers can do the talkin, you might as well let the amplifier do the walking because you're not going to sound like what you think it's going to sound like if you are unable to reproduce those sounds with your own hands
I think we all have overspent at some point, when the GAS got too bad and logical thinking was impaired somehow. This morning, my click finger was hovering over the mouse, about to order a set of bass machine heads for $130. You may not think that's crazy, until I tell you my bass is a Squier that cost me about 180 bucks. I can't tell you how close I came, until somehow my brain decided to work again.
Theres been a lot of whacky expensive gear that seemed a bit not worth it but I did find Mogami cables good specifically for mastering recording mixes while trying to minimize noise. I'm no pro though just a dabbler ^.0
I destoyed an 1981 aria pro 2 u 100 elite series custom made black green tiger gold hardware. I painted it to look like an airforce metal plane after than i sanded down a fender strat that had a jackson neck once the hardware malfunctioned i was mad and destroyed the u 100. The guitar was in museums. And books none was as nice as mine.
For me expensive gear is Ibanez GRGR131EX BLK, Joyo DC15 amp and any cable. I'm saving for it for about 3 years now but always some problem appeares and i have to use saved money. I was lucky my sister bought me this amp for birthday. Too bad it's just standing in the corner still in a box.
If you go and finds clips of say early Beatles stuff, you'll see how skinny their guitar cables are, it puts pay to the idea, gold guitar cables give you great tone caca, or not even gold ones just expensive ones in general. I mean don't buy the cheapest as they are shit, but $20-$30 is a good price point. As some who started playing in the 70's I can attest to how frustrating it is to deal with shitty cables, having to get the soldering iron out every couple of weeks to mend an annoying short, and this is at a time when electric soldering irons weren't that common, so you had to heat the soldering iron up on the stove top, I shit you not.
Don't expect that much for the reverse flying V. They are selling for about $1800 used. Except yours will have some Sammy G Mojo so it might add an extra 50k...
And it's not even just the "what would Kurt think about his guitars being sold for stupid amounts of money", to add insult to injury they are sold to rich twats who'll keep them from everyone else. At least when these objects are in the possession of Hard Rock Café they can still be seen and appreciated by any person who wants to take a look. When I travel to a location with an HRC that's actually one of my favourite things to do. Overpriced merch and burgers aside, those places are like museums, and I found myself walking in just to take a look at the displays without anyone asking me to buy anything on multiple occasions.
I like the one relative to cost thing in the list was glossed over... the thing(s) I was actually interested in. Was looking forward to a videos showing pickups for thousands, or tuners for hundreds simply because of material, tuning, finish, or machining... not provenance
It makes sense that the guitars sell for so much more than the amps because rich collectors want something to display and probably dont care about the actual sound. But from a players perspective I would totally pay more for a historic amp than I would for a guitar....but that might just be me
It would be interesting to see the most expensive regular production items (no custom shop, no special edition, no vintage, no famous user, just expensive)
I was kinda hoping for exactly that
that´s what I just thought
Probably just some PRS or Gibson Guitars with fancy woods and inlays
Yeah, these are just regular guitars of famous people.
The strings I use for my six string bass are about $80 a pop, they go up about another 20 if you want them gold plated. But they're not custom, but I can do things with them that cannot be done on other strings. And since bass strings last a long time, they're not really a bad deal.
I'd love a video of more things like the cable. Non-vintage stuff, stuff not affiliated with famous musicians
Yeah, the auctions that raise money for charity shouldn't be considered on these lists.
@@MegaTurjake I agree, this is too deep into bullshit value that is just beyond nonsense.
No matter how stupidly expensive any of those items are, they are all infinitely more reasonable than the NFT phenomenon.
ayo how was this left two days ago?
@@JoeJoel prob member of channel
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@@fudgesauce i always thought youtubers just uploaded their vids on Patreon or something like that didn't know that's how it works
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I got to give Jim irsay, the Indianapolis colts owner, some credit where it's due. Yes he buys up most music memorabilia , but thankfully he actually goes on tour twice a year with his collection and his own life band so people can see everything he's bought if anything's in working condition in order they put on a show, and the tickets are never priced too high for the general public. He is a fan of music
I've heard he's lent some things out for special studio work but I could be thinking of a different guy.
That’s good. At least he actually uses the equipment and allows people to see it rather than hoarding it all to himself in one of his mansions.
The thing is, Hendrix had bought well over 200 Fuzz Face pedals (according to his sound engineer), because back in the day they all had a slightly different sound, due to a lack of quality control and the parts used. So, there must be hundreds of legit Hendrix FF pedals, but all but a few have been deemed to shit to use, by Hendrix himself.
Maybe someone molted them down, into the gold cable.
My guess as someone who has read way too much about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain is that he would think that the Teen Spirit video blue Mustang sale is stupid, but not cause that big a fuss, but be absolutely furious about the Unplugged acoustic. I don't know what that judge was thinking ruling that kid had any claim to it at all. Horrible.
Didn’t the judge throw out the case?
@@kodykindhart5644 The divorce case? Well, everything I've seen says Francis Bean's ex-husband currently has the guitar, but I'll try to double check.
@@kodykindhart5644 Oh, there was another case trying to get it back, wasn't there? He allegedly sent guys to try to steal it, Courtney Love is involved? I need to do some research. I have memory problems, and I don't think I heard how everything concluded yet.
Well said
He would have just spent the money on drugs and talk shit about it
I would like to see a follow up that’s not based on rarity/ exclusivity. Like what’s the most expensive commercially available guitar, amp, strings, etc.
I wonder what Brian May's guitar would sell for? One of a kind, and played by a great guitarist for a legendary band.
He sold one of his personal replicas for just under £1m uk about ten years back, in a charity auction. Although I don't think he's ever really used it Tony Iommi has a hand made lefthand replica of Brian's guitar in black. Which was Brian's 50th birthday present to him. Although I've only ever read about this in a couple of interviews from the time.
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I doubt it would ever be sold to anyone but if it was it would probably go for about 8 million due to it being a vital part of music heritage and completely unique.
I’d like to see some ridiculous video where SRVs dumble, Jimi’s pedals, that gold cable, and a PRS dragon or vintage Zemaitas guitar is combined and we let a beginner play that rig and battle a pro with a Squier all in one guitar and amp pack
When Gary Moore first sold the Greeny guitar the guy who owned it took it to a guitar show and let people try it, though an original Marshall Blues Breaker, for $10. If you look out any of the videos most of them sound like everyone in a guitar store playing simple blues riffs out of time. It's in the hands not the gear.
@@Djarra I’d totally pay $10 for that chance, although with inflation that’s probably close to $100 now, and I probably couldn’t afford that lol!
@@honkytonkinson9787 Kirk does probably charge a bit more. Although he has let Rob have a go on it.
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It would have been interesting to know what's the most expensive mass-produced guitar. In other words, the price comes from the quality and brand, and all/most guitars produced by that company (or person) under the same brand/model cost about the same, rather than it being a unique guitar with historic collector value.
Generally all the most expensive ones with a model name you can actually buy today. Sort by price, High to Low. You're welcome.
I think that's Gibson's recent 'Greeny'
1:30 As part of that restoration, the Kahler tremolo on it was removed, the cavity left behind filled, and it was fitted with a stock Fender trem. I got a chance to talk to Charlie Chandler, the guy that did that work for David Gilmour. He has a shop in London. Coincidentally, he gave me a hand with the tremolo on my guitar, helping me make sure that the replacement I had in mind was going to fit.
Did you teach him the secret method of the whammy bar spring?
@@SEEYAIAYE I'm sure he knows it. Besides, I was looking at a Callaham bridge, and those don't need a spring.
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I was immediately thinking of the 1959 D18E. Kurt didn’t like the pickups, didn’t like the sound. Prior to the unplugged show, he heard REM unplugged and liked the sound of their guitars. Their guitar techs talked and Kurts tech found out about the Bartolini 3AV pickup. That pickup was still in the guitar when it was auctioned off. The Buck Owens All American played by Pat Smear (owned by Krist Novoselic) was also fitted with a Bartolini 3AV. I’ve added the same pickup to a few guitars, including the Tele I use regularly as an acoustic for gigging.
Getting one great amp and one great guitar is really all you need to want every great guitar and amp.
2:48 Love the not smooth at all transition to ad after wondering what Kurt would think about selling his guitars for ridiculous amounts
Not being a collector, I find the crazy prices ($100k and up) for "historic" gear are obscene.
The gold cable seems extra stupid when you remember that every cable eventually fails at the connectors
well most people with a bit of know how can rewire them. but i guess you just throw stuff out when it breaks like the average American
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@@jimbobbyrnes anyone with a brain would just spend another 10 bucks for a cable when it breaks rather than try and repair it. Not worth the effort unless it’s some kind of really valuable balanced cable in a studio or something
@@utterdisaster603 its literally a 30 second job. you actually have no clue. let me ask you this? do you buy new dishes everytime you eat or do you take the time to wash them? dishes are less than 10 dollars and take more time than rewiring a plug.
With David Gilmour's guitar, some of the mods are very interesting; Like the Gibson PAF humbucker he installed in January 1973 which was later removed in June 1973 for new single coil pick ups (you can see where David filled in the hole in the guitar where the pickup once was).
I dont mean to be that guy but if youre talking about the stuff below the bridge that would be because he installed a floyd rose style bridge but then decided to go back
1:24 Bro I could've sworn it was Shaggy💀💀💀
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For not knowing how to and never really playing a guitar i really enjoy your videos just from an entertainment and information standpoint.
My wife has a passion for traveling. Traveling is infinitely more expensive than music in my opinion. As a hobbyist that is. Once you’re in the big leagues I’m sure things might change.
100%! I play just to play but melt over new gear however I can never justify buying most of the things that catch my eye since I only really play for myself. You could call it a "personal investment" but at the end of the day, I'm just playing Papa Het riffs till my forearms can't go anymore 😂
Traveling is very cheap if you want it to be. It's all the things that make it more efficient and luxurious that makes it expensive... Exactly the same is true of playing guitar.
@@ThrillHouse666 you’re the worst type of guitar player. Driving up the price and making it hard for actual musicians and composers to get the tools they need 😡
@@wolfetteplays8894 what are you even talking about clown? Go back to living your life bud. Have a great one 🤙
I also wonder how Kurt would feel about his daughter inheriting his guitar, losing it in a divorce to a guy he never knew and then them selling it for a crazy amount of money. People will never allow him or Marilyn Monroe to just rest in peace geez.
0:55 The undisputed payed article
6:48 analysis plus always be the most expensive cable I remember even 20 years ago. they are the "klon" of cable. People who obsessed with good tone bought that cable 😁
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Fun fact. Adjusted for inflation, Kurt Cobain paid about $11k for that guitar (5k 1992 = 11k 2023). That's pretty crazy for any new guitar off the shelf today.
Really appreciate these videos that are fun to watch and are different from other content in our guitar community. They are like the ginger you get with your sushi to cleanse your palate before going in for a different piece of fish.
If you wonder what Kurt would have thought about his guitars selling for that money, I suggest you watch the performance of Endless Nameless Live in Paramount. That is exactly what he would have thought.
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kurts guitar was owned by Leadbelly and was bought by kurt because of the influence Leadbelly had on kurt. he even played "where did you sleep last night" by Leadbelly at the mtv unplugged
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2 million dollar strat sounds like a one thousand dollar Strat, because that's what it is. It's the signatures and the cause which makes it worth 2 million
I love how the most legendary and meaningful instruments are all owned by rich people that probably never play them, very cool
Something to consider. In 1973 Phil Lesh's "Mission Control" bass, absolutely packed with analog circuitry, cost $30k in 1973 dollars. That would be $180k US today. The intended amp stack consisted of six (one per channel) McIntosh MC2300 ($1800 US in 1973) and no less than four 15" JBL speakers per amp. Even if you aren't into The Dead, if you are a gear nerd, you should check it out. It's absurd.
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I’m sad that I’ve missed out on the deals for your classes in the past. I’d love to become a better guitar player and break past this hardly intermediate wall I find myself at.
I thought for sure that Jimi Hendrix strat that was on an episode of Pawn Stars would be up there in the most expensive guitars. The video is on RUclips and their "expert" appraised it at $1.5m but that was a few years ago. I wonder what happened to it.
Even if had all the money in the world I’d probably still stick to my ‘86 Charvel model 4, an old jcm900 and an EQ pedal. I’d do buy a klon tho, it goes well into a Marshall as boost for solo’s, like a tubescreamer but beefier.
where's your pedalboard man
you at least have to have a strymon pedal somewhere in that
Thing is you don't need to know that much to build/mod your own pedals.
I've got a Boss HM-2 pedal which I bought some time in the 90's, it's one of the original run of HM-2's and the prices for those have gone a bit crazy here in the UK now. I also have an early 80's GCB Dunlop Wah pedal, again people are willing to pay big money for these early pedals.
Thank the swedes foe that one. I bought a waza craft reissue because I'd rather have an improved and more diverse pedal that's brand new for 150 than pay 200 for a beat to shit HM-2 just for the sake of vintage. People get real weird about those pedals to the point they actually argue about the Japanese ones sounding better than the ones assembled in Taiwan
@@Chudchanning I know, it's crazy really. I've taken the plunge into amp and pedal sims and I've got a few HM2 VSTs that sound just as good as the pedal does and they were all free downloads. I only play in my bedroom these days so I daresay if you were to put the real thing and my free downloads on some type of scope to test them there may be differences but for what I'm doing, and for the average Swedish Noise Jockey I reckon that they'd do the job just about fine
I hear that amps and whatnot are on the verge of being obsolete these days, I'm personally technologically illiterate so I have no experience with them but I'm sure they'll hold up on a record just fine. I have this doomsaw pedal that's modeled after the hm-2 that's pretty awesome, I've found it sounds best with a tube screamer though
I have always wondered this stuff thank you, great video
Great video! That instrument cable bit was hilarious
Nice video and also Kurt would most likely hate the fact that his guitars are sold for so much because Kurt didn’t really want to be famous, he just wanted to make music, which is kinda the same reason he hated smells like teen spirit
That's a load of bullshit. If he didn't want to be famous, he could of just stayed home to make music in a studio. He wouldn't have went with a major label, signed the contract, went on tour and he certainly would have made any videos or did the Unplugged thing. That was just an act.
Yet he paid 5K, in '92, for a Martin guitar. Kinda hypocritical if you ask me.
What I meant with the he wanted to make music is also wanted people to hear his music but he didn’t want to be famous he just wanted to play for people
He did wanna be famous. What a load of crap 🤢
7:46 careful Sammy, those lawyer blues dads are the people that will be able to afford to go to the Samurai Guitar Summit
I thought John Mayer's 200,000 dollar stage amp would be up there in the most expensive 🤣 You learn something new every day. But hey, I'm glad he got the SRV amp cause it's so cool to have something your hero owned!!!
Btw with the John Mayer dumble overdrive, that srv used to record Texas flood on, my guess is that it was lent form srv guitar tech Rene Martinez who is now john Mayer tech, I have heard that he lends John srv ts10 whilst they work together, not 100% sure at all but just a estimate
what are the most expensive guitars/amps at retail price?
RF engineer and lute player here. I use RG316 cables with Jack connectors since a few years for the fidelity and good immunity to interference. They look exactly like that f* expensive crap in tge video, but they have a very specific purpose. Without entering into the boring physics, they avoid taming the high frequencies from high impedance sources that regular audio cables would cut away. This can be a game changer for piezos and some magnetic pickup. So, not snake oil, just some disproportionately expensive cables.
RG316 is also running anywhere from 1.19 a foot to over 30.00 a foot depending on where you get it and it's full specifications. I made a few J-poles from twin lead and ladder line for 2m/70cm and I made a very bodged guitar cable out of 300 ohm twinlead. It worked, but Ohhhh my word did it sound horrible. Or good. Depending on what you trying to make sounds of. That cable did blow the coil in my cheapo Danelectro battery operated amp.
8:07 Josh of JHS pedals: surprised pikachu face
I use the Pro Micro Golden Oval 20’ cables as patch cables. They sound great running to my Dumbledore.
When they first came out, remembered them at $400 per, but I just checked out the (SD) The Zephyr Silver Pickups on Sweet Water for $959.00. I would be curious to see you go higher than that (though, I wouldn't be surprised).
The thing about the Dumble that I think interesting is, Clapton plays one, but arguably his best know song Layla, was played on a Fender Vibro Champ. The V Champ being a really cheap practise amp, granted from an era when cheap practise amps had boutique features like, point to point turret board circuit, a plywood cabinet and a valve rectifier, but a cheap practise amp none the less.
Often small amps like this are used for studio recordings where the amp overdrives at low volume but for a live performance, a more powerful amp is better.
Bro, imagine being with your girlfriend setting up your guitar and suddenly Jimi Hendrix writes her a love letter in a string pack
Great Curb reference!
I'm pretty sure that one of Santana's original Mesa amps was sold for close to a million (for Carlos' charity) also Carlos' Dumble was valued so high that he couldn't afford the insurance to tour it anymore so had it cloned. Keith Richards tours with the second Fender Twin made, that must be worth a pretty penny.
Marshall have been offered, but refused, £1m UK for the first ever Marshall amp. But it isn't for sale.
Keith Richards also had a very early Mesa amp. He later swapped it with Jeff Beck for a guitar, Jeff then later traded it to Danny Gatton for a Model T. I'd guess if that one was ever sold it would sell for a heck of a lot.
More like the most expensive music memorabilia. Good video in any case. Thanks.
8:54 where the heck did you find this video? can someone paste the link here?
I want to hear the most expensive commercially available setup without any of the auction stuff. And then compare it to a standard everyday set up like an American Professional Strat through a Fender tube amp. Then compare the setups via the same song A and B style 😁
Congrats on one million man!
What’s the most expensive production guitar and amp? Famous peoples stuff is expensive because it belonged to famous people not because people actually want the thing itself.
You have the hollow body itch too, huh? I was just checking out a The Loar LH-550 SN(L48/50 clone-ish) listed at a music shop nearby and went into a deep, deep rabbit hole on RUclips... from your channel to learning about the ancestry of the guitar(learned about the Tanbur for example). What am I doing it's actually 5am.
In a way guitarists have it fairly easy.
I'm sure spending 1000s on a guitar isn't to be sneezed at, but what about other instruments?...
Classical (professional) musicians usually play instruments owned by their orchestra, but some do have their own - and a violin, small as it may be, could be extremely pricy when it says something like "Stradivarius" 🤣🤣🤣
But playing keyboards can be expensive too. My Hammond B3 (1961, with Leslie 122) didn't come cheap, and thát was even before restoration - which added another 2k. And I don't even want to know what I've spent on synthesizers over the years...
Music can a very expensive hobby, but an intensely satisfying, even therapeutic, one!!
I guess Trey removed that video or had it taken down as I can not find it.
Guitars have a life of about 100 years, electronics rarely last longer than 70 years (capacitors need regular charging or they fall apart, old resistors soak up water from the air etc.) and you have to consider that you can't name one artist from 100 years ago so once the boomer generation die off this stuff will be worth nothing.
Thats why I play polished, mint guitars and despise 'relics', live now, be old later!
I'm really digging that Steampunk amp behind you.
his delivery is perfect for the cable
Again unfortunately being a lefty, I'm out of luck with a Zemaitis! Lol
I remember reading something about Ace Frehley has one of those meteorite picks… and a fan GAVE it to him. Now I need to find that article.
0:45 What's "the guitar royal family"?
There's a Santana owned Dumble on reverb right now listed for 150k
You can own srvs dumble for a pretty penny? Play let your fingers can do the talkin, you might as well let the amplifier do the walking because you're not going to sound like what you think it's going to sound like if you are unable to reproduce those sounds with your own hands
Kurt's comment in Unplugged about buying Leadbelly's guitar
Kenny Wayne Shepherd has a f- ton of Dumble amps. Being close friends with Alex, his hands were inside most, if not all, of Kenny's amps.
hahah the pedal segments ending xD
The fact that they charged an extra $13 for shipping is absolutely hilarious.
I think we all have overspent at some point, when the GAS got too bad and logical thinking was impaired somehow. This morning, my click finger was hovering over the mouse, about to order a set of bass machine heads for $130. You may not think that's crazy, until I tell you my bass is a Squier that cost me about 180 bucks. I can't tell you how close I came, until somehow my brain decided to work again.
Theres been a lot of whacky expensive gear that seemed a bit not worth it but I did find Mogami cables good specifically for mastering recording mixes while trying to minimize noise. I'm no pro though just a dabbler ^.0
I destoyed an 1981 aria pro 2 u 100 elite series custom made black green tiger gold hardware. I painted it to look like an airforce metal plane after than i sanded down a fender strat that had a jackson neck once the hardware malfunctioned i was mad and destroyed the u 100. The guitar was in museums. And books none was as nice as mine.
Rare components are probably the reason for this.
It’s a quality over quantity thing
Also, trey you madman
Were you talking specifically about Music is Win concerning the klon bit?
Wow i must get some of those cables ,great value
happy 1 mil!!!
the toan is in the cable gold, dude!!
that jimi hendrix fuzz pedal looks mental :)
For me expensive gear is Ibanez GRGR131EX BLK, Joyo DC15 amp and any cable. I'm saving for it for about 3 years now but always some problem appeares and i have to use saved money. I was lucky my sister bought me this amp for birthday. Too bad it's just standing in the corner still in a box.
Couldn't think of anything else better that smashing out Bon Jovi covers!
If you go and finds clips of say early Beatles stuff, you'll see how skinny their guitar cables are, it puts pay to the idea, gold guitar cables give you great tone caca, or not even gold ones just expensive ones in general. I mean don't buy the cheapest as they are shit, but $20-$30 is a good price point. As some who started playing in the 70's I can attest to how frustrating it is to deal with shitty cables, having to get the soldering iron out every couple of weeks to mend an annoying short, and this is at a time when electric soldering irons weren't that common, so you had to heat the soldering iron up on the stove top, I shit you not.
Jerry Cantrell's custom rig is worth a pretty penny, as well. Such great tone, though.
The owner of the Indianapolis Colts also has Jerry Garcia's guitar Rosebud
Don't expect that much for the reverse flying V. They are selling for about $1800 used. Except yours will have some Sammy G Mojo so it might add an extra 50k...
Love hear a Curb reference in the form of “massive schmohok”
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💔❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝✝️Jesus Christ died for your sins please repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
And it's not even just the "what would Kurt think about his guitars being sold for stupid amounts of money", to add insult to injury they are sold to rich twats who'll keep them from everyone else. At least when these objects are in the possession of Hard Rock Café they can still be seen and appreciated by any person who wants to take a look. When I travel to a location with an HRC that's actually one of my favourite things to do. Overpriced merch and burgers aside, those places are like museums, and I found myself walking in just to take a look at the displays without anyone asking me to buy anything on multiple occasions.
I recently discovered that there is a company in Germany called Optima that makes guitar strings out of 24 Karat Gold. A pack is about $30 USD.
"Some wealthy schohawk for a massive stack of money" I dunno why but I fucking lol'd at that.
I like the one relative to cost thing in the list was glossed over... the thing(s) I was actually interested in.
Was looking forward to a videos showing pickups for thousands, or tuners for hundreds simply because of material, tuning, finish, or machining... not provenance
So, I should have kept my Klone I guess? Sold it about 6 years ago. Seems they've gone up since then lol
Having a pedal that Hedrix actually used would be awesome.
It makes sense that the guitars sell for so much more than the amps because rich collectors want something to display and probably dont care about the actual sound. But from a players perspective I would totally pay more for a historic amp than I would for a guitar....but that might just be me
Sheikha Al-Mayassa is the founder of the Reach Out to Asia foundation btw
My girl was just complaining that all my gear is so expensive. Lol, I will be showing her this video. Thanks.