Rarest piece of Music Gear you've Owned?

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Other than being rare, and special to me, my JP15, (currently in my avatar, since I'm playing it now.)

They only made the one, and it has some features not on any other JP15's:

  • The top color
  • The PU's are Dreamcatcher & Rainmaker (only in the Majesties)
  • 15" radius (all others are 17")
  • Rosewood fretboard
But I'm under no illusions that I could sell it on Reverb for a grand more than it cost me, like some people do with their EBMM Vault purchases. :facepalm

But I love it, and am glad I was in the right place at the time to buy it! :banana
 
Definitely my Hullett amp.

It was the one that belonged to Reggie Young that he talks about in this interview:

Reggie Young | Vintage Guitar® magazine

Reggie Young passed away on January 17, 2019. Here is an extensive interview he did with VG in 2001. Reggie Young is one of the most recorded guitarists in history. His tasty style has opened doors for him to play onstage and in the studio with every style of music possible; early rockabilly...
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AutomationBias said:
I have an Acoustic 270 amp and a 4x12 road case that I bought from Frank Zappa's estate sale in 1995. He used two of these throughout the 70s, blended with his Marshalls. One is pictured in the Zappa Gear book, and I own the other.
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Back in the mid 1980's, my JCM 800 took a 💩👍, so I got an Acoustic solid state for cheap until my Carvin X-100 B arrived.
It was a pedal platform.
We used to play big "Kegger" party's to make money and play.
Luckily, my X-100 B arrived because my Acoustic amp eventually blow up at a rehearsal.
 
banned said:
Wow - that's crazy! Why so inexpensive?
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We may never know. I've sometimes wondered whether that amp hadn't "fallen off the back of a truck".

This was way back around 1990, and it was already in pretty rough shape by then. I barely knew the guy who sold it to me. He lived in my dorm, and one day, out of the blue, he walked into my room and said, "You have to buy my brother's amp." I told him I didn't need an amp, and I was broke besides. But he was very persistent, and he left it behind so I could get acquainted. As soon as I fired it up I was in love. It sounded like it was about to burst into flames... but in a good way. A very generous friend (this forum's own @stonge) with more money and sense than I (this being a very low bar on both counts at the time LOL) vouched for the value of the amp and loaned me the money. Thank you, stonge! (For the record, it was also stonge who took a quick look at the amp and suggested it might be a IIc+, but in reality... we may never know. In the retelling it's always a IIc+, because either way, it was a very special mkII seemingly destined to make terrible noises in my employ... and regrettably, foolishly, I flipped it.)

banned said:
Can you imagine if we'd held on to them?
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Usually, I can't imagine that I didn't. :(
 
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Aside from custom instruments, rarest would be a 60's guyatone gold foil pickup. Bought it as part of a classic vibe strat that had been converted to kind of Cootercaster specs. Did not get along with the pickup at all. Pulled it out, sold it for more than I bought the guitar, bought a very cheap loaded classic vibe pickguard off ebay, put it on the guitar, sold the guitar for what I paid for it, kept the Lollar P90 that was in the bridge position and the pickguard.
 
Me. One of a kind. :crazy

I wasn't expecting to see 2 Mark IIC+ amps mentioned in this thread. They
must not be all that, eh?? :LOL:
 
la szum said:
Me. One of a kind. :crazy

I wasn't expecting to see 2 Mark IIC+ amps mentioned in this thread. They
must not be all that, eh?? :LOL:
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All that and a bag of chips. I was an idiot. What can I say? :idk

I later bought, and re-sold for far too little, a dead mint MkIV with matching slant 4x12. Stupid, but not as stupid as not keeping my MkIIc(?)+(?).

It's weird how much the internet changed... everything. Like, back then, it was really easy to not understand the scarcity or the value of specific items. I remember thinking, "I'll just buy another one if I need it again." Fast forward about 10 years and I'm looking for a "backup" for the Hamer Virtuoso I mentioned above, and the internet was very quick to tell me (direct quote here), "Fuggetaboddit."
 
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la szum said:
Me. One of a kind. :crazy

I wasn't expecting to see 2 Mark IIC+ amps mentioned in this thread. They
must not be all that, eh?? :LOL:
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I had a bad back even back then and mine weighed a TON...actually needed other people to help me move it.

It also was housed in a MarkIII cabinet and that diminished the value a little. Either way, I had to move to another state and that's when I sold it

However, TBH, I don't play metal and really got it for the lead guitar tones. I feel I've played several other amps since that suit me more.
 
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