[sdiy] My Best buy ever...

[harrybissell]

Not anticipating the 'rave' thing, I advised a friend to trade his TB-303 for the
then, somewhat newer and (imho) more useful Alesis HR-16 (the first decent
sounding sampled drum machine, also imho)

I LOL to see you call the TB-303 a 'POS'. That was our take on it. We used it as
a cheap sequencer for a ProOne (which is still not a 'POS' to this day, although I will
admit that it is a cheap pos manufacturing wise).

The only thing really cool about the TB-303 was one jazzy little factory demo with
a walking bass line. We used to listen to that so much we could sing along with it.

In other news, I was in a music store yesterday that had a Prophet V rev 2, an OB-8,
Korg Polyphonic PS- (not sure which one), an OB-1, ARP String Ensemble, ARP ProDGX, and myriad other vintage pieces.  If you are interested you can go there and
pay the BRAND NEW price tags... and walk away.  LOL.   The owner 'won' the title of worst clerk in a retail establishment in a local (Detroit) paper (Metro Times)... who
described him as the "bastard love child of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grim Reaper".

If anyone wants I'm sure I could look up the phone number for them.  Have to admit that he finally moved the MiniMoog he had.

He had a couple of "keybeds" as someone was looking for... bet he'd sell those for $500 or so...   :^P

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H^) harry

Christopher Randall wrote:

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