Hi Thomas; nothing to be ashamed of, and as long as you have the intent to own an Alembic, that's good enough.  
 
Mica; thanks for the input from you and your dad!!
 
Interesting winning bid.

TKS
 
Good luck.  Great seeing your post and hope you get the bass.
 
dw

Yes Mica, that was a great thing to do, thank you.  Can't get a better opinion than that!  
 
I ended up spending less money on a guitar.  I don't know what I would have really done with the cab anyway.  That's a big hunka memorabilia.

A couple of interesting links somewhat related to this thread:
 
http://hardtruckers.com/
 
http://www.backbeatbooks.com/?p=0879308931