there will be no casio abuse jon i promise- and rest assured if i had the $ i would be a gear accumulator of the highest order with extra merit for nerdiness and obssessiveness ;) I'll share one recent [OT] acquisition that was, as I'm sure you'll understand, a big high. Here in the UK we have a chain of stores called 'Cash Convertors'- they are basically pawn shops with a squeaky clean shine (but as they say 'you can't polish a turd'- although apparently the late direcor Stanley Kubrick once suggested you could if you froze it first! but I digress). I pop in there every now and then as music stuff often appears. I popped in one saturday afternoon about 5.30pm (it closes at 6.00pm and isn't open sundays). I wasn't expecting anything and didn't even have any cash or cards on me. I nearly wet myself when I saw it. Any absolutely mint Roland Space Echo RE-301 analogue tape delay. I quivered over to it thinking oh my god oh my god how much? do they now what it is? I saw a label on it that read 'Roland Video Editor'- my knees weakened with joy, 'the f**kwits!' I thought to myself. These things are rare as hens teeth and go for for 400 ukp upwards. Not to mention that they sound beautiful. Shaking I found the price tag ... 120 ukp WHOOPPEE!! I tell you I was there monday morning waiting for the shop to open ready to fight anyone else to the death. Sure enough it had a few glitches- this things getting on for 30 years old. But I found a good local engineer who got it ship-shape (just needed new tape, head cleaning and callibrating) for another 35 ukp :) A bargain me thinks. yours jim 'still waiting for the 50 quid TR808 in a junk shop' harris ;) -----Original Message----- From: Furman, Jon W. [mailto:jfurman@...] Sent: 02 October 2001 12:43 To: 'CZsynth@yahoogroups.com' Subject: RE: [CZsynth] Fs: VZ8M Brighton, UK LOL!! Seriously though I do believe that keeping the VZ is a good way to go since the prices are so low for it. If you have to have one Casio I'd pick that one, actually I'd pick 2, a CZ-1 coupled with a VZ-8m. Total cost about $350 US dollars. That's true synth value!! It's worth more as a something to play with than it is as $. But in all fairness I do realize that there are 2 kinds of people: gear traders and gear accumulators and I'm a gear accumulator. I've never sold anything ever, not once. Still have my original CZ1000 that I got when I was like 14 and I'm 30 now. But if you have to let it go at least find a good home for it....tears well up in my eyes when I see a Casio that has been abused!! -----Original Message----- From: jim [SMTP:shockwavejim@...] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:37 AM To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [CZsynth] Fs: VZ8M Brighton, UK hehe- thanks jon- its never easy getting rid of gear. I've had so little time recently that I've only scratched the surface of the VZ8m and it *is* very interesting. Trouble is that where my stuff is going means I need sampling and multi-tracking more than interesting synths and the only way I can justify spending 899 ukp on the SP808 is by selling some gear. However the VZ8m is last on the list and it may not have to go. If it doesn't I'm sure you'll all hear from me again with lots of 'how do you do blah blah blah'! jim -----Original Message----- From: Furman, Jon W. [mailto:jfurman@...] Sent: 02 October 2001 12:15 To: 'CZsynth@yahoogroups.com' Subject: RE: [CZsynth] Fs: VZ8M Brighton, UK Nooooooooooooo!!!! Losing the VZ8m isn't worth the $100 you might get for it. Sell your car or house or something first, just my opinion. -----Original Message----- From: jim [SMTP:shockwavejim@...] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:13 AM To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com Subject: [CZsynth] Fs: VZ8M Brighton, UK Hi all- much as I like it I'm getting rid of my VZ8m to help pay for a Roland SP808EX (amazing box, check it out if you are interested- its a combined digital four-track and phrase sampler). So 1x VZ8m with manual for sale, good condition- \ufffd100. email me if interested cheers jim Yahoo! 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RE: [CZsynth] Fs: VZ8M Brighton, UK
2001-10-02 by jim