― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Unfortunately most of the guitar places in or around Nashville don't have very good prices given that the number of guitar players per capita is so high in that area. I haven't really scoped out Seattle since I moved here.
Br0adway Music in Nashville is pretty cool since they sell used stuff at decent prices. A few times I've managed to get used stuff at low enough prices there to turn it around on eaby for a significant profit. (I am a pedal junkie who plays a lot of them in the process of finding the keepers.)
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Them: "You want to plug it and bust out some riffs?"
Me: "No, I need to know how long the delay is. I don't need to know what a guitar sounds like through it."
Them: "You don't need .. to know .. what .. a guitar .. *HEAD EXPLODES* "
― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex0r in NYC! (gygax!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
God. After all this time wondering what they sounded like ... DICKY BARRETT?!?!?!?!
― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
in NYC
what are the best ones
Rivington? Matt Umanov?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
You mean Ludlow?
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
I guess you mean Rivington? Never actually went in there.
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't really been to a Manhattan guitar shop for years. My last couple of music store trips have been to Main Drag. But this is all basically for a rec for a friend of a friend coming from out of the country, and I don't want to send him to Williamsburg just to buy a telecaster.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Umanov closing
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/10/matt-umanov-guitars.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
i totally forgot about martin mushrush
― na (NA), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
One of the things I hate about playing guitar is that it is such a well-mined instrument, meaning that there is such a wide range of things that have become cliche. And whenever I sit down in a guitar store I feel like I inevitably revert to cliches, because I am "good" at guitar but too self-conscious not to worry about being perceived as "good," so I just anxiously revert to some blues lick.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
Anyway, I was pleased to find out the suburban outpost of this place: https://rudysmusic.com/ is close to me. Not a massive selection but a cool one, and just a really nice, pleasant store to be in with the nicest employees, the anti-Sam Ash.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link