I was looking through my local Gumtree and Reverb recently and saw a fella asking Aust$1200 for an original TS10. WTF? That's approx US$760 at the moment. I had an original TS10 when they were new and it was crap. I bought it because the other guys in the band told me I had to (!) and even then I thought it sounded crap. Obviously I wasn't trying to be SRV and didn't really know how I was supposed to use it and it wasn't quite heavy enough to be a good doorstop. The best bit was that I was continually having to put the leads back in because they would pop out at the least provocation.
The whole "Old stuff is better than new stuff" is getting, well, old. In some cases it's true. Old tubes were made better than new tubes. Some old amps were made a LOT better than most (not all) new amps. Some old guitars are really good. But there is plenty of outstanding new stuff, especially where electronics is concerned. And I think we have come a long way from the Tubescreamer. A lot of old stuff is just old. And EVERYTHING is getting too expensive. Especially TS10s it seems.
The whole "Old stuff is better than new stuff" is getting, well, old. In some cases it's true. Old tubes were made better than new tubes. Some old amps were made a LOT better than most (not all) new amps. Some old guitars are really good. But there is plenty of outstanding new stuff, especially where electronics is concerned. And I think we have come a long way from the Tubescreamer. A lot of old stuff is just old. And EVERYTHING is getting too expensive. Especially TS10s it seems.
