$88,000!! For a Dumble. .. jeez

bignorm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1994-Dumble-Overdrive-Special-100-Watt-6L6-ODS-Combo-NOT-A-CLONE-/281942864098?nma=true&si=y%2FM%2Bs3iHjcYdHHJ9BDT1QO7HfSA%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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Someone has more money than sense

richardhomer

A friend of mine used to own a vintage guitar shop.

In 1990 he acquired a 1959 Les Paul Standard. His insurers wouldn't allow him to display it, as it was £10,000.

He sold it to name player who presumably had 'more money than sense'.

Whether you 'get' Dumbles - or their prices - they consistently sell for huge amounts of money. My guess would be in 10 years time, the buyer will be able to turn a significant profit.

ICBM

I can't see it happening with amps in the same way. There isn't the 'old wood' factor like there is with guitars.

And especially things like this, which were built with off-the-shelf Fender and MusicMan transformers, there's really no "magic" that can't be replicated if you really want to.

The prices for these are already at the beyond silly level, and I expect that as the generation of players who seem to revere them so much heads for the great gig in the sky, they'll end up as little more than curiosities. Maybe not in ten years, but perhaps in not that many more.

Of course I could be wrong...

Bucket

Bet it sounds good though.

ICBM

Bucket said:

Bet it sounds good though.

I don't know. I've never played a real Dumble, but I've played one of the more highly-regarded clones (Fuchs). It was decent enough, but it was… just an amplifier at the end of the day. It didn't have any special magic that made me go Wow in the way (say) a '59 Tweed Bassman did, or a '76 Marshall 2203, or a Hiwatt 200 - just three random examples.

ThorpyFX

the psychology of supply and demand...... amazing

Chalky

No different to some fool paying out that amount on a new car. In a few years the amp might be worth similar but the car will be worth only half. Which buyer is the bigger fool?

Why do people always say "more money than sense" about rich people? If rich people have little sense why don't the clever poor become richer?

Sporky

I usually read "more money than sense" as meaning "more money than me".

Drew_TNBD

It's just @Gassage and his twins driving up the prices.

randomhandclaps

I am actually kind of tempted but I just can't justify owning a third Dumble.

KKJale

...It's all triply bonkers, because even the vintage market's often-hilarious "as famously played by player X on track Y!!!" reasoning doesn't add up.

Great Dumble records? Erm, hang on. Robben Ford? Steve Lukather, Jay Graydon, Larry Carlton, possibly, now and then? SRV... a few tracks, maybe?

Compare that lot to one-tenth of the famous recordings made with Fender Deluxes, 50W Marshalls, etc, etc...

If the '70s/'80s Dumble session tone was REALLY anything worth chasing, we'd all be busy collecting Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezers, and Butler Overdrives, and Alesis Quadraverbs. 

Don't all dash at once to eBay, everyone...

bignorm

randomhandclaps said:

I am actually kind of tempted but I just can't justify owning a third Dumble.

Already sold

midlifecrisis

id buy it if it was a different colour

monkey42

Nice, but ain't no lazy j!!

PC_Dave

Might pop him a cheeky "Best Offer".....

Ossyrocks

Hmm, I have my doubts about this being genuine. I can't see a stamped serial number on the back panel. Music Ground made some fakes which ended up in circulation with no stamped serial numbers...... Rob

Dominic

Funny thing Investments............

When I was a kid at the start of the 1960s one of my friend's dad was a weird arty bohemian  type who all the other aspiring ' do the right thing ' parents found extremely peculiar especially because he was a divorcee with 3 children and wore corduroy jackets !

 Whilst our parents were rightly proud of their repro Constable Haywain prints in a real gilt frame hanging over the mantelpeice this strange chap "wasted " money on Lino cut prints by a little known Spanish artist ,sketches by another bizarre Spaniard with a waxed moustache and some odd paintings by a bloke called Jackson Pollack and a weird English artist called Stanley Spencer . He also had some erotic sculptures which were certainly not 'Good news for Britain ' and enough to warrant our parents banning us from ever going to play at this strange house.He collected other strange things like old photographs ( Cartier Bresson ) which gave our parents a real chuckle over their exotic prawn cocktails and Rafia wrapped Chianti .

 He died at a ripe old age about 8 years ago ......the less valuable half of the Art collection sold at Sothebys for excess £120m and the better half is on loan to Tate Modern for 50 years in some kind of Tax concession deal !

We sold our " Haywain " to a local House clearance chap for £8 about 10 years ago 

 INVESTMENTS MAY GO DOWN AS WELL AS UP 

StuartMac290

Ahh, the prices have started to come down, have they? Last one I saw went for $110,000. Might be time to sell up...

57Deluxe

Yeah - over time you need parts replacing and by all accounts with the Epoxy Goop all over the place will make it hard to keep the amp 'authentic' to say the least...

RiftAmps

I saw Robben Ford play live once, he had his ODS on stage and whatever guitar he ran through it the tone was just....ok. Super smooth and rounded with very little bite. Every note sounded the same, like hearing someone talk with a monotone voice.

Although on a recording they sound great and I can hear all of the detail/nuances very clearly. I wonder if the Dumble tone just doesn't 'work' in a live situation.

I was also lucky enough to hear a Trainwreck Express played in the same venue the following year. That thing sounded incredible, it was textbook 'boutique' tone.

shaunm

Don't these just sound like Fender amps?