Impressive Steel Collection

Ray Mohr · Post by **Ray Mohr** » 12 Jun 2013 1:37 pm

Just give me a couple days in those rooms WoW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXqKkcdqCw

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 13 Jun 2013 4:35 pm

What a complete and total waste !! Like looking at the ocean...all that water and none to drink ! All that music and nobody to play it !! It is so

Regrets Paul

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 13 Jun 2013 4:45 pm

I agree, Paul. It's a sickness. obsessive buying and hoarding.

Don McClellan · Post by **Don McClellan** » 14 Jun 2013 12:15 pm

How wonderful that one person should have so many rare instruments and never play any of them while so many musicians would like to own just one to actually play it. I'm soooo impressed.

Guitars are meant to be played not displayed. Its collections like that that drive the price of rare guitars up making them available only to wealthy buyers and not to most musicians.
You're right Doug, it's a sickness. Its also a weird ego trip as I see it. I guess to collectors, you are what you've collected not what you've contributed.
I have 3 steels, a reso, a nylon classical and an uke. That's plenty and I use them all.
It must be a full time job just to dust all that stuff. Rediculous.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 14 Jun 2013 12:50 pm

I look at it a different way.

I look at this guy as a shepherd. (And I should point we have one or two collectors on this forum that most of you know and love).

Look at it this way: this guy could not collect these instruments and maybe they get sold to someone who doesn't take care of them and slowly these instruments disappear from the face of the earth.

But this guy is capturing what he sees (if the price is right) and lovingly preserves them for a future generation. One day that man will die and the collection be sold. How nice for someone 40 years from now who can get hold of a vintage instrument that has been preserved by such a compulsive collector!!

Daniel Policarpo · Post by **Daniel Policarpo** » 14 Jun 2013 2:53 pm

there aren't a shortage of lap steels for sale. Nor Fenders. Sure there is some rare stuff, but rock stars collect way more of this stuff, warehouses full of it. I don't collect much of anything, but it's not like he's hoarding .22 LR ammo. Now that would make me mad!

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 16 Jun 2013 11:44 am

Daniel Policarpo wrote:there aren't a shortage of lap steels for sale. Nor Fenders. Sure there is some rare stuff, but rock stars collect way more of this stuff, warehouses full of it. I don't collect much of anything, but it's not like he's hoarding .22 LR ammo. Now that would make me mad!

I remember seeing this when the program was transmitted.
I wish he would start hoarding .22 ammo, and all the other sizes too, Guitars don't kill.

Ronald Cid · Post by **Ronald Cid** » 19 Jun 2013 9:00 am

I am not an expert in Steel Guitars, lap steels or zithers, but I can say that I know electric guitars quite well. Personally, I didn't see anything in the video regarding electric guitars that were of high value. 70 Fender Coronado's, I laughed when I saw that segment....the Coronado never sold...it was one of the worst dogs that Fender ever produced, and an easy collector's item. If I was Leo Fender, I would kneel at this man's alter, just because he liberated the world of 70 of those units....and best of all... in the film he states he is looking for more. lollll

RC

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 19 Jun 2013 1:35 pm

Jazz guitarist George Barnes gave away most of his guitars to family and friends. He like to say, "I can only play one guitar at a time."

I don't understand this collector/hoarder mania. It's just stuff. People are what matter, not stuff.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 19 Jun 2013 2:54 pm

Yes, this guy is just collecting and stacking up guitars like beer bottles or badges.

I feel a little uncomfortable owning a dozen steel guitars, four regular guitars, and four amps. I can justify it though. I use the gear constantly for my lessons and gigs.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 20 Jun 2013 12:51 pm

he's a collector,he purchased these items..they were for sale at some point..

He now has them available to be seen by anyone and everyone...

he started a museum...

I don't see rows of Emmon's or Sho-Bud's...or MSA's...I see a few old Fender Pedal Steels and a bunch of Lap Steels that you can buy today on EBAY should you desire one...

What's the problem ?

Is he preventing any one person from playing an Instrument or acquiring one ? If so..how ?

I have a few old Lap Steels..they are nice enough but I prefer the new Gold Tone I play regularly . One of the old one's has been for sale a few times on this forum...nobody inquired about it...evidently nobody wants it...

so..whats the problem ?

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 20 Jun 2013 1:09 pm

He now has them available to be seen by anyone and everyone...

Not really, Tony. According to the host of the video, the collection is in an undisclosed location because the owner says "it's not for anybody else, it's just for him".

The guy is free to do whatever he wants with his money. I'm just saying, this does not seem like normal behavior.

Steve Branscom · Post by **Steve Branscom** » 20 Jun 2013 3:01 pm

When I lived in the PacNW there was a guy in our town that owned 6 Chrysler Imperials in various stages or restoration out behind his house. Now THAT was weird. Guitars, not so much.