I picked up some extra work shipping eBay items out for a comic shop outside town on Saturdays and I've got an ancient iPod Nano with nothing but the complete Legowelt (and other aliases) catalog on it specifically to listen to when I'm packing up weird, Ashensesque action figures and stuff. It's perfect for that.

Honestly, though, I like hearing him talk almost as much as I like his music, I don't know how much of it is the way Dutch cadence sounds in English but everything he says sounds like the most dry humor ever.

This makes me sad I old my beat up old Poly61 to some guy for years ago, though.

My "one that got away" was in high school my music teacher offered me the Juno 106 gathering dust in the corner "on loan" and was legitimately surprised when I brought it back before graduation, because he had no intention of asking for it nor expectation/need for it to return. I think he offered it to me for 0 after that but I didn't have the cash on hand.

The only vintage gear I have ever legitimately owned was an old Yamaha drum machine called the "Dr. Rhythm" that was pretty cool in an 808 sort of way and an ARP Odyssey, which was basically a scaled down version of ARPs normal synths, only without anywhere near the level of customization options.

I used to know so many people with Juno 6's and 106's, they were dirt cheap when I was in high school and college. The band I was in around 2005 had three of them at one point. Imagine.


The real one that got away for me was back in high school when I had a Pignose amp and one of my classmates' brothers saw me carrying it after school and offered to trade it on the spot for his amp that was in the trunk. It had tipped over when he was driving to the school and broke a power tube and he was done with paying 0 a year to keep the tubes fresh and biased and wanted something small and easy. I thought about it but I didn't take it because it was old.


It was a pretty clean looking, 1950s Fender Tweed Deluxe.

OH, and about 12 years ago I could have gotten a Triadex Muse for , but the guy who had found it in somebody's garbage and was selling it came into the record store on my day off and the owner would only offer him .


http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/triadex_muse.php

On the bright side, I checked the current ebay prices for the turntable I got for around that time, and the cheapest one I saw was 00, so you win some you lose some I guess.

Stanley, those Dr. Rhythms were Boss not Yamaha an they rule, the DR-660 is one of the all time classic 90s drum machines apparently. It was my first and only piece of real gear in high school but I traded it for a Commodore 64 a long time ago. Legowelt shows his off at 28:00 in this video.


I remember it being really fun to program and having great feeling, responsive pads, squishier but with a better response than the MPC2000xl that replaced all my drum machines a while back (and speaking of good deals, I got the MPC with a perfect screen, brand new pads, sensors and data slider, a CF card reader and the RAM maxed out, plus a well used but still decent Otari MX5050 mkI for 0 total from some Berklee graduate around 2008. I've added literally every upgrade you can add to the MPC (except the 8mb SDRAM board that's really rare and expensive and not that useful) and I'm still about 0 shy of the ebay price of a comparably nice one without any upgrades. It's been the heart of my whole setup for years.

A guy I know who lives down the street actually got an Arp Odyssey with all the original overlays and manuals and some third-party book about learning the Arp Odyssey, all for free. Keys are a little sticky but it works.The bass player in his dad's band loaned it to his dad in 1982 and never wanted it back.

I was out of the scrounging game for quite a while, but I recently learned that a different guy down the block I've been hanging out with and talking synths lately works for an independent electronics salvage company about a 10 minute walk away, so between having an open invitation to stop by and teling him I'm looking for a shift or two I might be in a prime spot to snag some sweet 90s rack gear while it's still reasonably available. It's starting to catch on but you can still get a lot of stuff really cheap. I need more Wavestations and a Kurzweil or two, and an E-Mu Emax and a Kawai K5 and GOOD GOT A YAMAHA TG33 SO BADLY, complete lack of budget and space for them notwithstanding. And one of those late 90s Roland samplers that has the incredible time stretch algorithm that's still better than any commercial software or hardware since, I forget the model but they are ASTOUNDING and only cost a couple hundred even on eBay.

Better than the original.

He was buying in the 90s, though, so it's a different situation. Shit, in college they had a clean 808 for around 0 at a local music store and I was shocked at how overpriced it was. Once you get enough stuff you can start trading and then it kind of snowballs (plus earning your living from it doesn't hurt, either). I was that way with guitar pedals for a few years, I'd managed to get enough stuff that when I heard about something interesting someone was trying to sell I'd more often than not be able to trade something I got cheap or free for it. Still regret not getting one of the first 10 Fuzz Factoy pedals ever made, with all the original packaging and everything, but to be honest it sounded kind of crap (they still do). It's really just a Fuzz Face with some of the resistors replaced with knobs and an Electroharmonix LPB-1 stuck in front of it. Zachery Vex can post all the angry rants about lack of originality in pedal design and the moral imperative to design your original circuits from scratch but he still made his name by sticking and LPB-1 and a Fuzz Face in the same box.


The guitar scene is even more conservative and fetishy than the modular synths scene, anyhow. I'm worried that once I've gotten good enough at making them that I would be comfortable trying to sell them, I won't have the patience to deal with the people who would buy them.

What kind of stuff have you got? MY analog synth pile is actually pretty meager, a couple homemade things, a Bass Station Rack and I just traded my old MG-1 for a Roland RS-09 last week because even cheap string synths are the best and it makes everything sound like Lucio Fulci.

Oh, and a Gakken SX150.

welp, currently its:
OSC OSCar (my baby)
Moog Prodigy
KORG MS-20 (1978)
Roland TR-909
Roland D-50
Roland JP-8080
Roland SH-101
Eventide H3000B
Korg Trinity as controller
Reaper on a Win8 laptop for sequencing

I also got started in the early 90s, but Ive probably sold more items than I've traded or bought over the years....