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remora1
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Link Posted on Aug 26 2020 12:31 PM

This is just a head's up for any Setzer fans with money to burn! Brian's unloading some gear and all of it is amazing. If I come into big cash soon (c'mon SuperLottoPlus!) I'm going on a shopping spree -

The Official Brian Setzer Reverb Shop

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JohnnyMosrite
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Link Posted on Aug 26 2020 01:04 PM

I always liked Brian Setzer's music. But guitars are guitars. He's selling them personally - which means they aren't of market value for Sotheby's or Christies.
I've yet to meet a dealer who pays for signatures or "who played it" with regard to guitars. It just doesn't add to instrument value unless it's a die hard fan with more money than brains.
Brian is charging market rate and maybe a bit more on these instruments. I hope he finds his niche of buyers.
Of note -
There's a Nokie Edwards Hitchhiker model on Reverb.com for close to $5.5K with shipping.. it's been there a while. Makes me feel good about mine but I still can't see paying $5K+ for another one.
All my opinion , of course..
Good luck in sales to Mr. Setzer

J Mo'

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Link Posted on Aug 26 2020 01:35 PM

I checked out the shop, just to see if there was any indication of when the sale was starting. Turns out that was ~3 hours ago, and 95% of the gear is GONZO! Mission accomplished, Brian!

-murph

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remora1
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Link Posted on Aug 26 2020 04:18 PM

Geez, went live barely 7 hours ago with 66 items and there's only 3 guitars, 3 amps, 1 reverb tank, and 2 banjos left!

Congrats to Brian and to the lucky new owners of some really cool gear.

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Link Posted on Oct 27 2020 04:59 PM

Head's up - Brian's added more gear to his Reverb shop. Check 'em out before they're gone!

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Link Posted on Oct 27 2020 06:46 PM

Serious prices. Smile

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Link Posted on Oct 27 2020 06:55 PM

The only special attribute of these guitars is that Setzer owned them. He can buy any guitars and then offer them saying he owned them. Who thinks this adds value?

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JohnnyMosrite
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Link Posted on Oct 27 2020 08:38 PM

As I've said:
Last time I heard, an artist's signature doesn't mean squat.. that's according to most vintage guitar dealers I've met.
Think about it.. a signature isn't going to make you play like the artist, is it? Setzer is a good guitarist - but not in the league of Les Paul, Jeff Beck, or Hendrix. Hence, online sales and no Sotheby's or Christies auction.

The guitars could be lemons with construction, feel, playability, and tone issues.
There are good sounding and playing cheap guitars as well as expensive terrible sounding and playing junk out there. Of the latter, I've owned a few and one was a Gretsch Black Falcon.

And it would take a person with stainless steel gonads to ask Setzer for their money back if the guitar they bought just plain sucks. The setup you're entering is that Setzer owned it and therefore, how it plays/sounds is less than secondary.

Right now I'm trying to give a Korina Flying V a setup for a relative. What a piece of junk!!
It's bulky to handle, unwieldy to play.. the neck is lifting slightly from the body joint (what there is of a body joint) making the high notes buzz out.. Adjusting the truss rod does not affect the neck joint area, of course. Yet there are players of this wood-manure out there.

And I don't care if Albert King played a "V". You can't polish a poorly thought out and constructed turd. It just looks tough and pretty. Well Ho hum.

The Gretsch guitars that Setzer is offering are all out there - without the Setzer price tag and probably sound pretty much the same.
But if more money than brains prevails, enjoy the new (expensive) toy.

A repeated humble opinion
J Mo'

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