You can add me to that list:
I'd like to think I should be in the club.
These are my faves, but I have sooo many more...
Posted on 11/22/2020 12:06:38 PM PST by wastedyears
The filing by the nation’s largest retailer of musical instruments highlights the growing gap between the strongest and weakest companies in the pandemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Another “Romney Involement”... geee.....
They whine about Trump losing money, but how many Bain Capital owned places have went under???
That’s a real thing. That song is never to be player at an audition or when playing out. Awesome song but the rockers that play are totally burnt out on it. Some guy in FL might still have a video of me playing drums along with it at home. He sneacked up on me and stood there for a while recording.
I recently picked up playing after a decade away from gigging and when I walked into a guitar center I was floored at how awful and generic everything looked. Anything I would formerly call good quality (american made, Gibson/Fender etc...) was so far beyond overpriced it was insulting, and all of the moderately priced stuff had nowhere near the variety that it used to. Maybe there were six different basses, four of them looked near identical and had roughly equivalent features. I also figured out nearly too late that the way a guitar sounded inside their acoustic room was way better than outside on the showroom floor, so much better it might as well have been a deliberate trap. Always bring the guitar out of the acoustic room and try before you buy.
Their deals ARE total garbage, but it’s the same garbage deals industry wide I’ve noticed.
I don’t like to buy instruments online. I like to try them before I buy, so places like guitar center are essential to me.
been hearing about this.
Sometimes mass marketing doesn’t.
You can add me to that list:
I'd like to think I should be in the club.
These are my faves, but I have sooo many more...
I shoulda learned to play the guitar. I shoulda learned to play them drums.
There’s always ‘Musician’s Friend’.
The future is computer generated drum tracks and the like.
Learn to play an instrumnet sounds like work to a millennial.
So another company canibalized by Bain Capital.
The Legend.
Do you see anyone play the guitar other than churches? The ones playing there are older.
I would consider a keyboard as more being more rewarding and having more flexibility.
“ I got my first real six string at the five and dime.”
I got my first six string from s&H Greenstamps.
Are rockabilly cats the only folks that play on a Gretsch any more?
Musician's Friend merged with Guitar Center back in 1999.
Lel
I don’t know much about guitars but aren’t Gibson and Fender high-end companies? Maybe companies that are more the high-end of a market can do okay in this environment.
Nah, in addition to Jack White (and of course, the late great Malcolm Young) a lot of indie-rockers are playing Gretsch guitars.
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