New Guitar shop...no Rick's

[edski]

Thoroughbred Music...it was OK when I moved to Tampa, but once Mars got into town the quality of the shops started to go downhill.

I remember Sam Ash in NY...got my J bass at the White Plains shop.

[bugman]

Well, I made it into Guitar Center this weekend. Lots of people and lots of noise. They look like they had quite a bit of selection in the Guitar department but I was really disappointed in the bass and bass amp selection. I'll go back sometime in the middle of a week and look around in a less busy environment.

[johnallg]

"and lots of noise." Unfortunately, it is always like that - music way too loud to even think straight or hear if you try an instrument.

[jnbass]

sounds like the Manhattan Beach GC!

[bobcat]

That's weird. When I was at the Guitar Center in Atlanta (actually, right outside of Atlanta), I don't recall there being any noise except for the salespeople talking to customers and a guy wanking on a Warwick Thumb through a GK amp. Maybe there was loud music, and it just fried my brain so much that I don't remember. I dunno . . .

I do remember that, bass-wise, they only had Fenders (and low-end ones at that), low-end Ibanezes, a couple of ****** Warwicks (can anyone say "ugly stick"?), two Stingrays, a Sterling, and the one truly good bass in the whole store (besides maybe the Sterling): Pedulla Rapture J2-5. That bass alone made entering the GC worthwhile. Unfortunately, they were asking a ridiculous amount of money for it.

[rictified]

Yeah GC has a lousy bass selection here also, at least for me, no Ric basses anymore, very sad.

[johnallg]

Same models here. You don't want to hear about the '78 4001 they had used (overpriced).