#101

Stop going into Andertons!

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#102

Don’t shred a Tele in yr cat’s litter tray

It will undo all the work you’ve done domesticating them

#103

Went to order in an MIJ Jaguar in the guitar shop here years ago, would have spent a fair bit of money on it. The lad there was so condescending that I didn’t even bother with it in the end. Still so pissed off about that. LET ME BUY THE THING I WANT.

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#104

I bought my first guitar 31 years ago and despite all this experience of guitar shops and that I have spent more than plenty in the two guitar shops I frequent in Stockholm I still feel intimidated when I walk into either of them

Even if you spend a grand or more there are always 2grand, 4 grand & 10grand guitars that you don’t even deserve to look at

Never, ever had this in a synth shop

The root of it is a stinky, well outdated notion of ‘musicianship’

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#105

I mean there is nothing so piddly and useless as a £600+ guitar eh. That kind of sale is absolutely nothing to them, just pennies.

#106

always like the look on the captains face when he has to do an jazzmaster video, seems to have begrudgingly accepted time has vindicated them but he is not happy about it

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#107

When I first started playing banjo I went into Hobgoblin, a folk music instrument shop in London. they had about 8 banjos, a couple priced £100-250 and the others all £700+. The guy claimed that banjos priced somewhere in between simply don’t exist.

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#108

And the funniest thing of all is that working musicians don’t really want these multi-grand guitars unless they’re superstar status, because they’re too much of an insurance liability on tour, and they don’t want to be playing different guitars in the studio and live.

So they’re basically for the jazz dentists and blues lawyers.

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#109

I always wonder if the owners of know they’re costing them sales. I would have spent a lot more money in there over the years if the staff weren’t such horrors to everyone.

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#110

my first guitar was £50 from Argos.

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#111

Youtube gear demo videos. Also a pit of hell. Stop doing widdly wee blues lawyer bits.

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#112

Or Nicklas from the Hives

There’s a guitar shop near me called Hellstones. In the window they have a hand-illustrated rickenbackers of the Beatles done by Klaus Voorman

Worth billions

#113

loved their first album

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#114

When i got my first guitar (aged 14) we drove to birmingham to this massive warehouse type place (its gone not but could have been a musical exchange or something) all the guitars were just hung up and there were loads of amps with headphones all under them - you just helped yourself to a guitar and plugged in

was so cool as a teen

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#115

Cheap ones are great cause it’s like that Sonic Youth thing, you don’t feel too anxious about jamming random things in the fretboard and smacking it with pens

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#116

I went to a shop similar to that in brighton, may even have been a branch, after some silk and steel mandolin strings, was told they dont exist. now have silk and steel strings on my mandolin

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#117

I remember my Dad snapping a string on it when I took it round his house to tune it for me on Boxing Day and I thought the world had ended.

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#118

I had to change a set of strings on a friend’s kid’s classical guitar last year. Was the most important thing in the world to him, poor lad was terrified of doing it himself. I just remembered being ten or eleven and shitting it when I broke a string on my Mam’s guitar and understood where he was coming from.

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#119

yeah i think their main shop is in Brighton

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#120

Never had a go-to show-off/try-out song because I hate playing in guitar shops so much.

Also because I don’t know a single song by anyone other than me. And most of those were improvised whilst recording then pieced together so I can’t recreate them either.

This is the key to my lack of success.

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