«God is the clock in your heart and the clock maker himself but you can throw the 2 hands of the clock at whichever time you want to be...» Anonymus widow of a watchmaker
God doesn't need to know what time it is.
Value of anything is a most fascinating subject to me.
Eric Clapton hasn't owned this Rolex Daytona for nearly 20 years. It 's probably been in storage since he dumped it and is expected to fetch north of $1.6M?
For that much I'd want his playing ability AND his stereo system.
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He's a hack. Any actual, trained musician would agree. |
I'm old school. I like the feel of a proper watch on my wrist. I have a few nice ones, some older, but nothing like the big dollar bling that is thrown around these days. Watch-making is both science and art. Some of the designs are fascinating (and I pretend to know very little about the watch making art). To @bdp24, it's another way to spend money, a hobby, some pursue with a passion. I had a friend back in NY who was seriously into cars. He managed to get the stopwatch Steve McQueen used in the movie Le Mans. He can afford it. Daytonas seem to be some of the most collectible Rolexes for both neophytes and serious collectors. Nice watch. Not worth millions, other than for provenance and bragging rights, but I understand it. Is the money going to a charity? |
@bdp24 ⁷ Cooder's playing on "Bring the Family" is exemplary! |
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@tablejockey: In the 90's I had a '66 Deluxe Reverb, but the reissues are great too. In December of 2007 I played a 3-night gig with a singer (L.A.-based Jonny Kaplan) who is a really good rhythm guitarist, and his Les Paul Jr. into a new DR sounded fantastic. For that gig I played one of my 1950's WFL black diamond pearl kits with a 24" kick. |
"The Deluxe Reverb (blackface, of course ;-), my favorite amp. " bddp24-Yes, I don't have the "real deal" but a1994 2nd year reissue(circuit board but ALL tube) Not a Fullerton Ca. "original. 22 watts of power able to keep up with most any heavy handed drummer and overly loud bass player. I think it's safe to say -EVERYONE who has ever listened to R&R, Country, Pop, Jazz and everything in between particularly 60-80's recordings, has heard a Fender DR! THE MOST used studio amp there ever was? All the greats likely plugged into one at some point. |
I usually dont use watch... 😁😊 Dont deduce from this fact that i am godlike but perhaps almost godlike because i am retired... 😎 I never collected books or music albums only purchase a great amount of the two but because i read them or listened to them... Collecting or hoarding is a strange act for me, especially watch and matchboxes ... But i must reveal to be fair and then i contradict myself here that i am in love with beautiful hourglass and if i was rich i may have collected many for their beauty also... Human nature is complex ... i just discovered that i could have been a collector after all.... i am a strange animal also after all....
The difference between an hourglass and a watch is striking, you wear a watch because you dont want to WATCH time itself...You wanted to be able to be DISTRACTED out of time or to worked inside a span of time and dont want to pay attention to objective time when wearing a watch...Save if you are very annoyed by your job and dream to be out each passing minutes... But an hourglass is completely different, you must WATCH it with a relaxed mind , and pay attention and meditate about the flowing instants or grains of sand and time... An hourglass is a meditation tool... A watch is a distraction for working fools... 😁😊 And solar watch is another meditation tool like the hourglass and also like a watch a way to forgot time by marking it... Solar watch are more difficult to collect at the same place though ! 😁😊 And all the beauty of the solar watch design is to be an instrument alone in a specific garden under a specific sky... The object i will pay for though to be constructed for my collection of unique object would have been an old mechanical chinese sismograh with 8 dragons heads which liberate a ball and determine the direction of the epicenter...... Zhang Heng creator of seismology... |
The Deluxe Reverb (blackface, of course ;-), my favorite amp. Dwight Twilley’s long-time guitarist Bill Pitcock IV (now RIP) used a pair of them with an MXR digital delay between the two, with an ES335 plugged in. Awesome live sound! When I recorded with Evan Johns in Atlanta, his Deluxe was up in British Vancouver, so he plugged his Tele into the studio’s black face Super Reverb, and cranked it to 10. Loudest thing I’ve ever heard! One Fender I really dislike is the Twin Reverb---too metallic/brash for my taste, though Mike Bloomfield made his sound pretty damned good (with a Les Paul). The best live guitar sound I’ve heard was that of Ry Cooder. He had a pile of a half-dozen old combo amps: Fender, Gretsch, Ampeg, etc. And his playing? The best I’ve ever heard. This is related to the topic of the post because when Ry played his little solo in John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset", it felt like time stopped. The single greatest musical experience of my life. |
Bdp24- Now and then I wonder just how ridiculous my spending would be if I were in that league-01%? Sure would love to wrap my hands around a few classics normally unobtanium to mere mortals. The drum kit you have certainly is of more "value" to me and I don't play! I appreciate fine timepieces, wouldn't object to having even a " budget" Rolex, but not my thing. One LP, Strat and a beat up Deluxe Reverb keep me occupied. Secretguy-what a silly comment. How's YOUR music career going? |
I've never understood or related to the fetish for expensive watches. UK reviewer Ken Kessler is a collector, occasionally dropping a watch reference into a review. There in no time, man, only the eternal present. Unless you have to be at a record store when it opens. ;-) Now old guitars and drums, there's something worth spending big money on. Neil Young owns Hank Williams' Martin acoustic, Marty Stuart Clarence White's B-Bender Telecaster. I own one of Jim Gordon's (Derek & The Dominos, etc.) Camco drumsets. None of his cymbals, unfortunately. He played the best I've ever heard. The worst? Ginger Baker's. Real trash can lids. |