Life could be a dream

So what´s gonna be written this time. As a Burns-fanatic one of me interest´s is to search the internet for old Burns equipment for sale. 

this is the Burns Orbit Six from 1964-66. An amplifier that even for most Burns fanatics didnt exist at all. a huge 75 watt combo with three channels and 3 x 12" speakers. Still its the real thing and extremly rare, on sale at ebay.usa.

It was a rainy day in Gothenburg the year of 1968, when a young me took his place behind the stering wheel of a light blue Volvo Amazon Sports. After a three hour drive to Malmoe he parked the car outside Hagström Music Store. It was ten minutes to Six and soon closing time. He entered the shop running and  the staff didnt seam at all pleased to show him one out of two brand new Gibson Barney Kessel guitars. One of the guitars was already sold to a wellknown Swedish guitarplayer. Mr Berndt Öst of the Family Four band.

Ten minutes later the young man left the shop with a huge guitarcase in his hand. He opened the door to his old Volvo and placed the new guitar in the backseat. A guitar that had cost him more then 8000.oo swedish crowns. the same as the price for 4-5 Strats!!!

a year later the guitar was stolen and no insurance to cater for its cost´s!!!!

The memory of that guitar have not left me and when different guitarfactories in Japan started to make the famous Lawsuit copies the possibility to buy such a guitar appered. Well not for me cause of my extremly bad economy.

Well my dream was still in mind and suddenly those copies was on sale as second hand guitars. A lot of them was tested but the economy was still bad. Then suddenly the other day an Ibanez Barney Kessel Lawsuit guitar was up for sale at a swedish marketplace, at only 4500,oo!!!

Nothing in the world could stop me from calling the owner who told the guitar was sold, but also regret the sale when he realised that I would have offered him two of my guitars in exchange for the guitar. pofff   no deal...

Being a Burns fanatic make me look for Burns guitars every now and then, the white Baldwin Burns Double Six was a rare find in White. Very rare on sale as a true collectors item and not for me. I have to dream about purchase of one of the new models made in Korea.

Heres yet another finding. An Ampeg-Burns Jazz Splitsound made in 1963 when Burns factory made guitars to be sold under the Ampeg-Burns badge. This red one is one out of five guitars in this special order colour.

end of dreams