Costly mistakes you have made with gear...not at all parody

[CrystalSky]

yeah, the hamer especially hurts because the prices have skyrocketed

Same with Mesas. Very sad times.

 

[The~Kid]

It’s like one person here is on a mission to make the most posts in the thread.

By the way NOS Russian tubes, particularly from the old St. Petersburg factory are some of the best tubes available. Hence the price on matched triplets of Winged C 6550s. Or the old 6550Bs.

It was Soviet Era in Slovik writing from an eBay dude and I was young, wasn't an official dealer..... Since I've never seen anything that was as red, things went full nuclear and cherry red. It wasn't an official dealer as said or anything, just a dude on eBay and they came from Russia

I wouldn't say it's the same as say a current production Sovtek El84-M or dudes like TAD and those are probably screened and filtered to make sure you get a solid tube and as said not random dealers/unofficial etc etc that may have duds or not properly screen these for use in guitar amps. Maybe it was good for a HAM radio or something but the amp didn't take it well in either case. I would trust a reputable/official dealer in either case.

 

[Fusionbear]

The costliest mistake I ever made was wanting to play guitar. Wrecked my life.

Yep...

 

[The~Kid]

Cool thing was is I bought the Peavey Classic 30 with gambling money I got as a teenager.... It was a black/silver head with the round Peavey emblem and MIA.

Pechanga had advertised slots back then that paid out every hour...... I had saved up walking around money like 300 or 400 bucks. My trick was smoking a cigarette slowly and then half way I would run a full 20$ bill into a 5$ slot machine. I was too young to play poker so I played the slots.... When I was 13/14 I actually finished top 11 out of a 10,000 person Texas Holdem Tournament but yeah... Hell I think I was too young for that too but whatever


When folks would lose a bunch of money and drop like 4 or 5 thousand dollars in a slot machine and then stood up and walked away I would jump on the seat and slow play it smoking a cig. Needless to say people hated that shit after I'd win on their seat...... I got some nasty stares too but I wasnt doing anything wrong and it worked and I won.

I'd win like 300 or 500 bucks on average an hour and once I won 2,000+ dollars and that's what I used to buy the amp. I bought the amp for 300 bucks used pretty much mint, kept some money and gave the rest to my parents.


It was pretty cool as a kid and it was one hell of an amp that really was nicer than my first Fender Super 60 red knob.

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

You had me at blowing trannys.

And “but plugging”

 

[nightlight]

I just sold my Mesa Mark IV. It's the outcome of being stupid enough to quit my job in this economy.

Have a bunch more mistakes lined up in the same vein, both guitars and amps.

Sucks, but that one amp sale gave me enough money to keep me afloat for the next two or three years.

After all, it's just gear, right? So I keep telling myself.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

Cool thing was is I bought the Peavey Classic 30 with gambling money I got as a teenager.... It was a black/silver head with the round Peavey emblem and MIA.

Pechanga had advertised slots back then that paid out every hour...... I had saved up walking around money like 300 or 400 bucks. My trick was smoking a cigarette slowly and then half way I would run a full 20$ bill into a 5$ slot machine. I was too young to play poker so I played the slots.... When I was 13/14 I actually finished top 11 out of a 10,000 person Texas Holdem Tournament but yeah... Hell I think I was too young for that too but whatever


When folks would lose a bunch of money and drop like 4 or 5 thousand dollars in a slot machine and then stood up and walked away I would jump on the seat and slow play it smoking a cig. Needless to say people hated that shit after I'd win on their seat...... I got some nasty stares too but I wasnt doing anything wrong and it worked and I won.

I'd win like 300 or 500 bucks on average an hour and once I won 2,000+ dollars and that's what I used to buy the amp. I bought the amp for 300 bucks used pretty much mint, kept some money and gave the rest to my parents.


It was pretty cool as a kid and it was one hell of an amp that really was nicer than my first Fender Super 60 red knob.

How the fuck were you playing slots in a casino at 13/14 years old when the minimum gambling age is 21?

 

[nightlight]

On the subject of blowing trannies, I've heard it causes tone suck.

 

[The~Kid]

How the fuck were you playing slots in a casino at 13/14 years old when the minimum gambling age is 21?

I was like 17 or something at the time, taller than most kids on average, smoking cigs..... No one said anything.... Id always gambled if I went and had walking around money

Id play Texas Holdem online though and that's how I played in poker tournaments. Again 11th place out of 10,000 ain't bad and top .01+ percentile in the group from that sense.

Pechanga doesn't do advertised hourly paying slots anymore either.

 

[The Polish Hammer]