Pedals I keep meaning to sell (and why I don't).
Five pedals I have listed on Reverb at least once and pulled down before anyone wrote.
Sam (sam.varney) and I had this conversation in February. He has a Roland Space Echo RE-301 he has not turned on in two years. I have a Fulltone Tube Tape Echo in a road case in a closet behind a coat. Neither of us will sell either one. That is what this column is about.
I have five pedals that live in a drawer in my studio and that I never use. I have listed them on Reverb at least once each. I have pulled every listing down within 48 hours, every time, for reasons that are partly sensible and partly embarrassing. The reasons range from 'I might need it' to 'I cannot bear to part with the version of myself who bought this in 2013.'
The honest answer about why I don't sell any of them is that gear is a memory device. The Klein-Walker Lawn Mower reminds me of writing the second record in a basement in Greenpoint with a leaky ceiling. The Frantone Sweet Lo reminds me of the eight months I spent thinking I was a noise musician. The Lovetone Big Cheese reminds me of a fight I had with a producer in 2011 that I lost and was correct about. Selling those pedals would be selling those memories at $400 a piece, and the market is not that good.
Greer (greer.shepard) keeps telling me to sell the Frantone. She is right. I will not.
'Gear is a memory device. The market for memories is not that good.'
— Johnny
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