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My Martin isn't as nice as that D-28 but is more appropriate for my playing today than a D-28 would be. My $800 MIM strat is a better guitar in pretty much every way than that premium 70s strat was. Today, good gear is still expensive new, not too bad used, but today cheap and mid-priced gear is SOOOOOO much better than it was then. That was good gear then but really cheap gear was terrible then. That said, I have gear I like as much or more today and while I paid considerably more, I could afford it just as easily so it all works out. Or really for the guitars either, but it took me a long time (and a lot of accrued value) before I realized I should sell the guitars for lack of use. Then family, career, etc took over and I didn't have any use for an amp like that. I had those guitars for 25 years and the amp for about 10, which is as long as I was playing out and needed a loud amp. Which was a lot of money then but I was working, single, and everything else was cheap too so I was able to handle it pretty easily.
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So I had an amazing setup by todays standards for about a grand. Buying music gear can be complicated, but your Sweetwater Sales Engineer is here to help. I bought a mid-70s strat for $400, a 1968 Martin D-28 (last year for Brazilian rosewood I believe) for just a little more (don't remember if it was $425 or $450) and a Peavy Classic that's still the loudest amp I've ever owned and had a great reverb tank (it was a 2x something - don't recall if it was 10s or 12s) for about $200. I didn't start playing until late '78 and it was late 79 or early 1980 when I'd gotten decent enough and knew I was into it enough to buy some decent gear. Things are just things, they are not worth very much in the grave, but enjoy what you do have, and if you are fortunate enough to have what cannot be taken away, you are very fortunate indeed. It buys and it runs out, it always seems to establish more power, more control, and get more complicated. Money is a funny thing, a very elusive, yet very predictable equalizer of destinies. I used to be an idealist until I realized there was little redeemable in others, even less in myself, and all just to make a racket. I've never understood value and how it is perceived, seems like the price is always too much when you have too little, the blows you take are cumulative, and someone else who doesn't care ends up with the fruit of your life's work in the end. I have one amp left from all my dreamin', hard work, hoping, gigging, and perseverance, it wasn't made by a company, it was made by someone that did not betray their spirit. I can't say I have come out unscathed in heart and soul, I am a broken music-box. I guess so, I survived the evils that wrung weary and strangled the once brilliant spirits of many of my more traditional peers, where the house always wins (and they don't get the house) haha What is the price I paid to make music? Dang-near everything.