From breynold@usc.edu Tue Dec 23 11:26:54 2003
Subject:Re: Need your light... was gonna buy a Hammond XK2 those days but...

But Bob...

If you wait til NAMM, someone will introduce something wonderful that will be shipping next June...

Just in time for Summer NAMM, etc., when someone will introduce something even more wonderful that will be shipping in November...

But that is so close to 2005 NAMM that you might as well wait til Jan 2005.

Those of us with Gear Lust either end up with chronic dissatisfaction syndrome or chronic procrastination syndrome. You jump or you wait; either way you lose!

And this is not limited to young guys and gals in the digital age. If you go over to the Hammond boards, they all know about HAS (Hammond Acquisition Syndrome). But while younger buyers "Sell old, buy new", these guys keep all of theirs foverer in a garage filled with BVs, M100s, Leslies of all shape and ilk, etc. And they are too forever hunting estate sale ads, Salvation Army, church alleyways, etc., for the Holy Grail (One owner B3 inherited by some poor schmuck who hasn't a clue and is now saying "Gimme $50 and take this old organ thing away.").

By the way, I don't just write about these clubs, I'm also a member.

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