Not that that helps any of you, but still
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
It does help me in that it makes me happy that someone still cares about the working stiff who might want to tag up with his meager musical aspirations on his way home at night.
Do you still stock instructional materials/sheet music? Matt Umanov doesn't anymore, just those little gig bag chord books.
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
we stock instructional stuff but i cant give away sheet music or tab at this point, all the old school publishers are in full panic mode and trying to find other stuff to sell at this point, its pretty much over for them i think
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, what is there to replace sheet music and tab? Or is it that people just don't give a fuck?
― how's life, Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
They just download it off the internet? Or they ask their friends to email them a giant zip file with charts for every song ever recorded? But yeah, I know, it's kind of sad. RIP, sheet music:(
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
The only thing worse than music stores that close at 6pm is dealing with their staff between 5pm and 6pm. Half of them behave as if they have a bag of cocaine burning a hole in their pocket. I get it, you're about to close the store and you have other things to do. During the last hour of your shift you're liable to be short-tempered and easily distracted. I still need to purchase things, which I came here to do in the 15 minutes you're open for normal people.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
there's a sam ash in forest hills -- took me a while to realize this, and was surprised to run across it
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
Walked by there recently. They have a surprising amount of single page sheet music as well as books, although some of the latter seem well-thumbed by decades of customers- kind of a Store That Time Forgot. Although I did see some guys go in there to try out -what are those things called again?- oh yes, Lunchbox amps.
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Went by Park Row today and saw that most of the J&R stores are closed now, there is mainly only the one on the corner of Broadway.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
That last J&R is of course gone. Rudy's reopened on Broome Street.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link