The CRAZIEST guitar gear collection on the internet?

[Moongrum]

I think a lot of it is because when you get older and make a good living you can suddenly buy all the toys you wanted when you were young and poor but then you barely have the time to actually use the toys.

I can 100% relate.

 

[STRHelvete]

I inexplicably felt this thread was gonna go south..I just felt it in my spirit.

Everyone keeps laugh reacting this but I was totally serious. This thread just feels tense for some reason. Is it just me? No one senses this?

 

[narad]

Everyone keeps laugh reacting this but I was totally serious. This thread just feels tense for some reason. Is it just me? No one senses this?

We all like gear but we all hate exaggerated BS clickbait headlines.

I'd also nominate @narad. He has the nicest collection per square inch.

lol, I missed this. I think this is like being in a bodybuilding competition where they're like... "Now the finalists in the under 50kg category..."

 

[MaxOfMetal]

We all like gear but we all hate exaggerated BS clickbait headlines.



lol, I missed this. I think this is like being in a bodybuilding competition where they're like... "Now the finalists in the under 50kg category..."

The YouTubers won. People like the commercials for channels now.

 

[soul_lip_mike]

The worst is when you see someone who owns like 12 LTD's, solars, or other <lower tier import brand of bigger brand> which is the equivalent of buying 12 honda civics. Amassing quantities of junk for no reason doesn't make much sense to me.

 

[complex-barb.0t]

The worst is when you see someone who owns like 12 LTD's, solars, or other <lower tier import brand of bigger brand> which is the equivalent of buying 12 honda civics. Amassing quantities of junk for no reason doesn't make much sense to me.

I feel personally attacked by this post. Hahahah.

One thing that makes badseed’s hoard so absurd is the ridiculous number of duplicated bog standard cabs. It serves no purpose. Stop buying them even if you get a “good deal”. There is a reason why Guitar Center will ship those 4x12’s to your house for $35. It’s now your problem. Hahahah.

I feel the guitar YouTuber community pushes a lot of this gear hoarding. Most people don’t realize some of these YouTuber’s will quietly list the shit the companies send to them on reverb to sell for a nice profit. Some don’t even hide it. They use their name to sell off the crap they were giving a positive review a few months prior.

(Note I am not saying badseed is doing this, just an unrelated observation.)

 

[narad]

I feel personally attacked by this post. Hahahah.

One thing that makes badseed’s hoard so absurd is the ridiculous number of duplicated bog standard cabs. It serves no purpose. Stop buying them even if you get a “good deal”. There is a reason why Guitar Center will ship those 4x12’s to your house for $35. It’s now your problem. Hahahah.

I feel the guitar YouTuber community pushes a lot of this gear hoarding. Most people don’t realize some of these YouTuber’s will quietly list the shit the companies send to them on reverb to sell for a nice profit. Some don’t even hide it. They use their name to sell off the crap they were giving a positive review a few months prior.

(Note I am not saying badseed is doing this, just an unrelated observation.)

Yes, youtubers are bad, but the regional deal stuff in the US is pretty crazy. It's not uncommon to wind up getting a good deal on a head, and getting a cab thrown in for free, or grabbing an extra cab for essentially nothing. You're already there with your car...this guy already wants to make space. It's easy to accrue an army of random cabs over time.

Is there any point to this? Well, one thing to bear in mind with music gear is the ebb and flow of what people want. When I was starting out, the Norlin era Gibsons were garbage. I could have bought a few for the price of a PRS. Now it's not uncommon for a single one to come up against PRS Private Stock levels of prices or much more if you happen to have one with precisely the right specs. Same with old Marshall cabs. The same with all synth rack gear stuff. People literally throwing it out circa 1995, now almost any of it is worth a few thousand. So my point is just that you never really know if your barn full of cabs is going to be highly desirable in some future world in a way that doesn't make any real sense in our present one. I look at the Reverb sale prices of old custom ESPs or Valley Arts from like 10 years ago and I want to cry at what I could have bought had I not been throwing all my money to Vik getting caught up in this whole seven string stuff.

I don't have the space but if I had the access to old Mesa cabs that I have now, with the warehouse of space most of you guys have, maaannn, I'd probably have a dozen by now.

 

[USMarine75]

There are two people that somehow make my Peavey collection look small - Geoff Knapp and Gerd Metzger. They might own 500+ Wolfgangs between the two of them. Geoff also has a ridiculous collection of EBMM EVH (Axis) guitars. IIRC one of them also has a stupid amount of JEM and JS Ibanez guitars too.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Man I must be lame as hell... cause as hard as I try, I can't understand one single reason for anyone to give a shit what someone else does with their money, time, you-tube channel, hobby, etc. Maybe I'm just an odd-ball cause all of this is just entertainment to me.. I watch whatever or I ignore whatever... that's about it. If it doesn't directly or negatively impact me, I seriously don't care.. not even a little. I dunno.. maybe my life just sucks that bad that I have other priorities, concerns, obligations, etc.

 

[MatrixClaw]

I have 13 guitars and 2 more pending completion and even now I sometimes think I might have too many but I can't pick any to sell. I find myself in a situation where I am actively forcing myself to play some of them when I think they've been sitting too long just so I can justify to myself that I should keep them. Then I'll go and browse the POST YOUR GAS threads or reverb and find myself with a guitar in my cart ready to buy it.

It's a vicious cycle. I think a lot of it is because when you get older and make a good living you can suddenly buy all the toys you wanted when you were young and poor but then you barely have the time to actually use the toys. Unless I want to deprive myself of sleep and risk being a zombie at work I find it really hard to carve out the time to play a lot of guitar outside of small noodling sessions. *stares at my playstation 5 with a stack of games I haven't opened, and my massive steam backlog*

Hello. Are you me?

 

[Alberto7]

I have 13 guitars and 2 more pending completion and even now I sometimes think I might have too many but I can't pick any to sell. I find myself in a situation where I am actively forcing myself to play some of them when I think they've been sitting too long just so I can justify to myself that I should keep them. Then I'll go and browse the POST YOUR GAS threads or reverb and find myself with a guitar in my cart ready to buy it.

It's a vicious cycle. I think a lot of it is because when you get older and make a good living you can suddenly buy all the toys you wanted when you were young and poor but then you barely have the time to actually use the toys. Unless I want to deprive myself of sleep and risk being a zombie at work I find it really hard to carve out the time to play a lot of guitar outside of small noodling sessions. *stares at my playstation 5 with a stack of games I haven't opened, and my massive steam backlog*

You literally deacribed me, down the number of guitars. Except I do have a couple of guitars I want to get rid of but I can't be bothered to deal with it.

I probably have the world's craziest collection of old ESP hardcases



Seta for sure has one of the craziest collections of metal guitars out there, especially for Alexi and BC Rich stuff. I actually just met him in Yoyogi last week to sell him something.

Seta has a lot of ridiculous stuff, but his Alexi collection makes my heart absolutely skip a beat or ten every time I see it. I'd legitimately pay a museum entrance fee to see it in person.

Man I must be lame as hell... cause as hard as I try, I can't understand one single reason for anyone to give a shit what someone else does with their money, time, you-tube channel, hobby, etc. Maybe I'm just an odd-ball cause all of this is just entertainment to me.. I watch whatever or I ignore whatever... that's about it. If it doesn't directly or negatively impact me, I seriously don't care.. not even a little. I dunno.. maybe my life just sucks that bad that I have other priorities, concerns, obligations, etc.

Meh, I "care". Enough to comment and engage with fellow nerds about it, just to be social with like minded peeps. I certainly won't lose any sleep if someone here doesn't like the fact that for 20 years I had an Ibanez with an active pickup in the bridge and a passive in the neck.

 

[complex-barb.0t]

Yes, youtubers are bad, but the regional deal stuff in the US is pretty crazy. It's not uncommon to wind up getting a good deal on a head, and getting a cab thrown in for free, or grabbing an extra cab for essentially nothing. You're already there with your car...this guy already wants to make space. It's easy to accrue an army of random cabs over time.

Is there any point to this? Well, one thing to bear in mind with music gear is the ebb and flow of what people want. When I was starting out, the Norlin era Gibsons were garbage. I could have bought a few for the price of a PRS. Now it's not uncommon for a single one to come up against PRS Private Stock levels of prices or much more if you happen to have one with precisely the right specs. Same with old Marshall cabs. The same with all synth rack gear stuff. People literally throwing it out circa 1995, now almost any of it is worth a few thousand. So my point is just that you never really know if your barn full of cabs is going to be highly desirable in some future world in a way that doesn't make any real sense in our present one. I look at the Reverb sale prices of old custom ESPs or Valley Arts from like 10 years ago and I want to cry at what I could have bought had I not been throwing all my money to Vik getting caught up in this whole seven string stuff.

I don't have the space but if I had the access to old Mesa cabs that I have now, with the warehouse of space most of you guys have, maaannn, I'd probably have a dozen by now.

Yeah, even though I don’t need a 4x12, if somebody is going to give me a Mesa Cab imma take it.

The future of in demand gear is hard to predict. Right now it seems 4x12’s are out of fashion, but they could easily change. It will be funny to see Zoomers buying Mesa cabs with the 2000-2003 v30s in em for way too much money a decade from now. I am guessing the speakers will be worth more than the cabs in general. At the end of the day they are wooden boxes…

I’ve only been in the gear whore hobby for a few years. I have only seen silly high prices for stuff you guys say used to go for cheap. I want a $500 block letter 5150 or Ibanez prestige.

 

[OmegaSlayer]

Very blunt but very honest
"I don't care a lot about your collection, but I'm interested in how you make money to afford it"

 

[Emperoff]

In BadSeed's defense, The Youtube video title says "the crazyest gear collection on Youtube", not the internet (as this thread). That might be right if other collectors don't give a damn about showing their stuff on Youtube. Had the thread been named the same way, the number of snarky replies could have been smaller

Collectors in general make me sad for no other reason that "guitar that ends in their hands, guitar I'll probably never see again for purchase". There's still a couple on my bucket list I'd want to get. But then again, I probably wouldn't pay what people are asking for those guitars anymore, so... .

 

[OmegaSlayer]

Very blunt but very honest
"I don't care a lot about your collection, but I'm interested in how you make money to afford it"

Sorry for this, I'm frustrated but not jealous

 

[jaxadam]

I don’t care how many guitars or amps or YouTube videos someone has as long as they have some videos of some tapped sweeps.

 

[ATRguitar91]

One thing that makes badseed’s hoard so absurd is the ridiculous number of duplicated bog standard cabs.

I do find this one bit perplexing. I can understand having a bunch of different heads, pedals, or guitars, because they can each offer something unique, and he can use them in comparison videos or whatever. Amps can be especially useful since Kyle has a QC/ToneX and can make profiles for all of them.

But cabs? I don't get the huge amount, and it seems like they're eating up most of his space. I know he plans to make IR's of a bunch of them, so maybe once that project is done he'll sell a lot off. That's gonna be a lot of work though.

I've got my 2 412s, a 212, and 112, and I can't imagine having any more than that.

 

[ATRguitar91]

I don’t care how many guitars or amps or YouTube videos someone has as long as they have some videos of some tapped sweeps.

I hate asking someone to explain the meme, but I've noticed a lot of tapped sweeps talk on here lately. What's up with that? I feel like I've missed something.

 

[JSKrev]

Yes, youtubers are bad, but the regional deal stuff in the US is pretty crazy. It's not uncommon to wind up getting a good deal on a head, and getting a cab thrown in for free, or grabbing an extra cab for essentially nothing. You're already there with your car...this guy already wants to make space. It's easy to accrue an army of random cabs over time.

Is there any point to this? Well, one thing to bear in mind with music gear is the ebb and flow of what people want. When I was starting out, the Norlin era Gibsons were garbage. I could have bought a few for the price of a PRS. Now it's not uncommon for a single one to come up against PRS Private Stock levels of prices or much more if you happen to have one with precisely the right specs. Same with old Marshall cabs. The same with all synth rack gear stuff. People literally throwing it out circa 1995, now almost any of it is worth a few thousand. So my point is just that you never really know if your barn full of cabs is going to be highly desirable in some future world in a way that doesn't make any real sense in our present one. I look at the Reverb sale prices of old custom ESPs or Valley Arts from like 10 years ago and I want to cry at what I could have bought had I not been throwing all my money to Vik getting caught up in this whole seven string stuff.

I don't have the space but if I had the access to old Mesa cabs that I have now, with the warehouse of space most of you guys have, maaannn, I'd probably have a dozen by now.

I've liked a lot of Norlin-era Gibsons (still own one), but am convinced their current values are just boomer-Reverb-nostalgia. There was a '77 Deluxe locally that I liked priced around $3k. When I managed to try it out, it played like crap and made a cheap Schecter feel like Excalibur. Someone bought it.

 

[SalsaWood]

No one senses this?

Guilty. Sorry/not sorry.