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Topic: Rob Lurvey Guitar Collector DVD -Anyone have it?-Tons of lap |
Dennis Smith
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Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2012 12:44 am |
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Hi
I saw this on ebay. Its a DVD of the Rob Lurvey guitar collection. There was a post about a Rt.66 tv show that had 3 or 4 mins going through his collection and he states he has one of the biggest if not the biggest collection of lap steel and amps over 3000 total. Just wondering if any body has seen the video? It's aprox $22.37 shipped from the UK.
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Ralph Czitrom
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Ringwood, New Jersey
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Posted 29 Nov 2012 2:33 am
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Dennis - The video is available on YouTube, so there's no need to pay for a DVD. I had not seen the clip until just now; it's pretty amazing. Just Google "Ron Lurvey guitar collection". Cheers.
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2012 9:13 am
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Hi Ralph, I tried gooleing it and all I can find is the RT66 and a short promo for the dvd. I emailed them and as for info. The dvd is 85 mins and he goes over the steels pointing out differences in the same model etc. If you can point me to it.
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Ralph Czitrom
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Ringwood, New Jersey
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Posted 29 Nov 2012 9:25 am
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| Dennis - In my early morning fog, I didn't realize that you were referring to a full length DVD of the collection, not just the RT66 spot. My apologies. Ralph |
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 2:35 pm
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Hi Ralph, I understand I don't do morning very well myself. The short RT66 clip is overwhelming to see that many lap and console steels in one place. Still it's a little sad to think they don't get played. I hope Rob play"s. Also I didn't realise it was a auction not a bin on ebay. I'm high bidder at this time.
On The RT66 clip if you stop it as there going around the building and you can see some of the steels better. I would like to spend a few days there just holding and looking at them.
Dennis
PS: The amps also wow! |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 7:48 pm
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You can stop it and still move around by clicking right on, and next to, the dot. From 1:14 all the way to 2:00 or so, all steels. 2-clicks per second. And I'm one of those who do find it sad. I KNOW he's not ripping them from the hands of underprivileged children to keep them from ever having a fabulous career playing steel guitar, but historically, the odds get very, very slim that many/any of these will ever get played ever again. Or categorized by some "Curator of Steel" and displayed in a big marble building on Emmons Plaza Road in Mooneyville, where 22nd-century children* will creep by in awe & amazement... come on.
There's a trajectory for this kind of stuff, and it starts when it's accumulated in a large enough mass so as to devalue each bit of it to... his "heirs?" Or a wham-bam auctioneer? If you had one Coronado and I wanted one real bad, I might pay $2,000. And if you had 50 to get rid of, I wouldn't have to. "Pennies-On-The-Dollar" is the phrase that comes to mind.
Functionally speaking, the man has dedicated his life to slowly but surely diminishing the value of what he collects. And when he dies, there'll be an auction for the best ones, and the rest will be sold by the pound (so they can go sit in a storage bin) and devalued by half or more every time they're shuffled, and end up as landfill. Economics is a bitch.
And if every single person reading this hocked a child or two and zoomed down there with enough money to each buy five of them apiece (at market value), there'd still be 1,500 of them left, and the auctioneer/executor now knows exactly what the market value of those are - it's automatically determined by what they sold for, which is zilch. Zippo, nada, nien, snake-eyes, NOTHING. And right THEN and only then is when sinister cackling George Gruhn slithers in with a lowball offer for every single "Telecaster" pickup, every P90, every foil PU, Rick pick, and every Bakelite knob he can crowbar & chainsaw out of them in an hour.
She's a mean bitch, too.
*(Curiously, they're all named "Buddy"...) |
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Stephen Cowell
From:
Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2012 8:22 pm
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One thing about this kind of concentration... what if a fire, or other accident, happens? There was a bad fire in a famous motorcycle museum in England some years ago... all pools of slag now. Spread 'em around, see they get played... that's my feelings on the matter.
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Dennis Smith
From:
Covington, Georgia, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2012 12:11 pm
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Hi
The video came today and all I can say is WOW. This guy has one of almost every American made steel including rare ones. His six string guitar collection is also great. He had maching amps and other amps I wish he had talked more about. I got this on ebay I was high bidder(only bidder) at $22. well worth it. And I've only watched it twice so far.
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