[sdiy] My Best buy ever...

[Christopher Randall]

That reminds me of a similar story. I was on tour a few years back, and 
Gravity Kills was the opening band. Their drummer had bought a 303 new 
when Roland cancelled them and blew them out (I remember seeing a stack 
of them at EU Wurlitzer in Boston for $75 each the same day I bought a 
new SH-101 for $50), and rapidly discovered it wasn't what he thought 
it was. So it sat on a shelf in his bedroom for about 10 years. I 
happened to mention one in passing conversation with someone else in my 
band, and he goes "oh, that piece of shit? I have one of those." I go 
"yeah? I'll give you $50 for it," kind of half-jokingly, and he says 
"are you serious? I'll have my girlfriend send it tomorrow."

So, a couple days later and what is for all intents and purposes a NIB 
303 shows up at whatever venue we're playing that night. I give him his 
$50. Our show the next day is in NYC, and I call a friend of mine up 
that worked at Rogue Music and say "hey, what would you give someone 
that just walked in off the street with a brand new 303?" He says "I'd 
give 'em $1100." I say "I'll be right down..." A short cab-ride later, 
and me and the missus had a nice chunk of change for our day in NYC.

Now, if it was a musician from any other band, I wouldn't have done 
that, but (a) the 303 is the most over-hyped over-used POS, and this 
was true in 1996 when this went down, never mind today, and (b) the 
drummer from Gravity Kills was (and I assume still is) the human 
equivalent of a 303.

The funny thing is that even after 10 years of being overhyped, the 
damn things are still going for that. If eBay had have been around 
then, I bet I'd have got $1400 for that thing from someone in Japan. 
That's probably what Rogue sold it for. I just sold one a couple months 
ago on eBay that didn't even work, and was a long ways from being 
fixed, for $450.

Chris Randall
http://www.audiodamage.com
http://www.analogindustries.com

On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:24 PM, nN AAt e e wrote:

> I'll give you 50 USD for it ... :)
>
> - Nathan [who hates you very much right now]
>
>> I BOUGHT MY FIRSTTB!!!! for 15€ :D

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