Are you on a mission to convert the Americas now, mein freund...?
My, how you've changed...
Now Uwe, who is your musical hero, and how far would your self-imposed limit hold you back if one of their instruments came up for sale...? I was seriously impressed when you mentioned Felix's EB1, who was one of my major influences...
Here is a thought... I was a stupidly crazy vinyl collector for a while and kept pushing the envelope out to the limit of my finances...
my Dell laptop keeps crashing so partially posting this to say goodnight to my daughter... back in a moment...
Where was I... oh yes... Well, a friend who, along with his wife worked as cabin crew for BA while I was avionics, and every so often he would come back with some gems, and knowing I was a keen collector of Neil Young items showed me a picture disc single, one of a numbered 200 made by for WB's Kent Crawford as Xmas 1978 prezzies... The going price was £125 in 1980 - I bought it - that tingling, drug-like sensation you get when you find something special and rare, something to treasure... a couple of years later the same guy caught wind of a copy of "Southern Pacific" in a red and black triangle shape - one of six made and handed out to NY's personal friends - $2000 to me if I was interested...
It was out of my league...
I started to break up the collection to buy things I needed, but this single stayed and eventually, at a record fair, where I was selling, and occasionally buying, minor items only, of course, I bought a clock mechanism and affixed it to the 45 and it still adorns the wall in my home to this day... curiously enough, it is an extremely good timekeeper for a quartz mechanism...
Now what has this got to do with this...?
A work colleague was an obsessive KISS collector, and a guitarist... the comics, the dolls, the whole kit-and-caboodle... I gifted him their 1976 tour programme (blew his mind - turned out to be there first programme, so he said, and I even had some "SNOW" to go with it...) and he spotted a Gene Simmons "Punisher" up for sale in London and it caused the same type of "ITCH"... and got him in hock for over £1400 to the boss-man...
Now here comes the rub...
The Neil Young single represented the moment when I had to be realistic and think of what was going on around me at the time, and until I pointed this out to my "associate" I had never connected what I had done to what the single was - "Comes A Time"...
I could have understood if it had been aThere "Comes A Time" when you have to settle down, in Mr Youngs words, but my erstwhile "buddy" (a "TOSSER", by any other name) had a "PUNISHER" to remember his moment... a BASS, when GUITAR was his instrument - purely to be a wall-hanger...
Now what was I saying, Uwe...? what would make you "itch"...?
ps, I knew of the SG type (Jack Bruce...? another influence) but had never heard of an EB6 until today - as I live and breath, you are the man...
Now I can catch up with you - PC issues have been dragging me through the gutter these last few months....