Buck...

(Imagine Progressive Upbeat Music Playing)... You are Buck Rogers... only you passed out on Sunset Strip, in a bar, with a lapdancer on your lap, next thing you know, you are revived in the year 2038... and you go to the Vintage Room on Sunset Blvd. (because you still live in LA)... in fact, it is the FIRST place you take the monorail down Sunset to...gas-burning vehicles are all-but banned... and on the wall... in fact... covering the wall... are...(gasp)... Jackson and Charvel guitars. By now they are showing signs of aging nicely... some checking in the paint, some bangs and bruises, and some tarnish on the metal. Price for a Charvel EVH model (circa 2003) $219,000.... price for a nice 1987 Jackson Guitar... $488,000. Nikki Sixx walks in... he is now 80... but with plastic surgery, and a Viagra-permanent Implant, he has two hot girls on both his arms. So how about Fenders and Gibsons? Yeh... they are still over in the corner (somewhere).. most are only to be looked at... they don't really function very well anymore...at least not un-molested...since Leo never made them to last almost 90 years).. not to get me wrong... try buying a 1984 '57 Reissue ($235,000)... or a John Cruz Masterbuilt Tele from 2006 ($189,000)... sound crazy...? How about Eric Clapton going into a store in 1970, and buying six Strats for $100 a pop... when nobody wanted them (when they all still worked fine and could be gigged regularly). Hint: Buy newer stuff... and for Vintage... we are talking 80's Strats and Tele's, and of course... Jackson's..and Charvel's.. yeh... believe it... if you still wanna be playing...in 2038.