hmm a few lyrics exist, just need a melody and some harmony. lets talk about vintage amp prices compared to vintage guitar prices. What does say a vintage Marshall sell for compared to say a collectible electric guitar. Maybe that's better expressed as price appreciation.
You can buy a great Dumble Overdrive Special for a little north of $100,000, and an average one for $55,000. An original Trainwreck amp will set you back only $35,000-$40,000, so that's kind of a bargain.
Garrett Park Guitars is selling a freaking 2004
reissue offset Marshall head and matching cab for $4995. That's about the range a real '68 Plexi goes for in halfway decent shape!! A 2005
reissue JTM45 stack is going for $6,000 at Groovy Guitar.
All of these amps are worth more than my vintage '65 Gibson SG Special, and worth more than my son's '65 Gibson that's all original.
A dealer in Nashville is asking $100,000 plus for an original very early Marshall head.
Then again, a vintage violin sells for ten times what a sought-after vintage electric guitar does, so draw your own conclusions as to what any of this proves. The price of things only proves the price of things And the vintage guitar market is wildly variable - often something becomes valuable because it's the current fad, and it loses its value very quickly.
Most vintage guitars don't sell for all that much, and most vintage amps don't, either.
A perfect used PRS Private Stock sells for a fraction of its original price, unless it's a Dragon or was owned by some famous dude. To my mind, these things are one-offs that should increase in value, but they don't. Yet.
What does that prove? Nothing.
The average layman knows a '58 Les Paul is worth a lot. Or that 1965 was a good year for Fenders. A collector can hang a guitar on a wall and brag about it. It's harder to hang an amp on a wall, and most of them will be covered in beat-up tolex, that doesn't really serve the purpose of
objet de desire.
You want to talk about utility and importance to the art of playing music? I'm into it. Prices of collector stuff? Has no real meaning for me.