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pcake

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have you bought at the same brick and mortar store? and can you even remember them all? i know i'm forgetting several we bought in stores.

mccabe's in santa monica
blueridge BR-341 (size 0 sitka/mahogany)
taylor T5 (seasonal, sapele and ovankol)
my husband's 1936 kalamazoo (it's an L-00, gibson's other brand)

hollywood guitar center
gibson victory bass there
yamaha guitalele
yamaha 3/4 classical
hofner violin bass
ibanez SR500
ibanez classical acoustic/electric
recording king 000 ROS-626
7 string schecter guitar (diamond series)
squier bronco bass (could have been west l.a. GC)
yamaha FG700

sherman oaks guitar center
warwick 5 string rockbass streamer
jackson RRX24 flying V

west l.a. guitar center
4001 ric
taylor GC8
seagull original S6

lawndale guitar center
7 string schecter guitar
cort curbow burgundy 4 string

sam ash hollywood
used tacoma DM9 dreadnought
jackson warrior
washburn transparent grey 4 string bass
washburn rover

sam ash canoga park
carlo robelli acoustic bass

boulevard music
recording king RP-01

l.a. guitar sales
composite acoustics cargo
 
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Fret House (Covina, CA)
  • Modulus Q5
  • Peavey Dynabass
  • Peavey Foundation
Lemur Music (San Juan Capistrano, CA)
  • Lemur Solana Bass
Guitar Center (Cerritos, CA)
  • Yamaha acoustic guitar
All other instruments we're procured online.
 
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Most of my stuff , I bought used. These came from Chuck Levins in Wheaton Md.
1973 Guild G312 acoustic 12 string. (Still have it)
1976 Ibanez Roadstar 2. (Sold it about a year ago)
1978 Epiphone SG (Played great but the thing wouldn't stay in tune. Sold it years ago)
 
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Startlingly few. I have a lot of instruments, but a very wide majority were gifts from friends and family and strangers, and most of the rest were bought online.

Sam Ash provided one bass, an Ibanez AEB of unknown history and pedigree (for which I traded my middle school clarinet), a blue and white Makala Waterman uke (my “work uke,” so named because I don’t care if children touch it), and a Hohner Special 20 in the key of A.

Meanwhile, my favorite uke (a Lanikai concert) came from Guitar Center, along with my favorite harmonica (a Hohner Blue Midnight, in A again), and while my very favorite bass was a Christmas gift from my extremely cool and supportive father, I can verify it was a floor model from that same guitar center, as it still had traces of my drool on it.

My remaining 20+ harmonicas were all gifts too, because harmonicists are super easy to shop for, as are two of my three guitars (and the third I found by a dumpster), and everything else I own that makes noise came from the internet.

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Mine came almost exclusively online.

The only ones I bought at stores are from the Guitar Center.

1) An Ibanez Artcore hollowbody guitar
2) A Squire strat
3) Musicmaster Bass before the Internet was popular (actually bought from Steve's, a music store in Toronto, Canada).

And that's it, of all the basses I currently own. There were a few I bought in stores, but I have since sold them. One I wish I'd never sold at all.

Funny how buzzes and stuff like that don't bother me anymore. It used to be a BIG DEAL in the stores. The salespeople would always say "but its not coming through the amp". Which to me sounded like sales talk just to get me to buy it. An excuse for poor quality.

After years of playing these instruments, I tend to agree with them, Hard to find a bass with no flaws at all on the neck, so after a while, you just flow with it...I tend to accept just about anything that comes to me in the mail.
 
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yeah, a lot of the basses i own were bought online including some i still own - my fenders (the mustang and the dimension), my favorite mikro, the traveler TB-4P and the 5 string mikro. of the instruments i no longer own, more were bought online than in person. but i had fun choosing the ones i bought in stores a lot more!
 
There was a little store here in town about 15 years ago owned by a really nice older couple. The gentleman who was there was one of the nicest people I ever met. He was like your cool uncle who just knew a ton of stuff about guitars and was a blast to sit and talk with and play with. I would spend hours there every day just talking. He did all of my setups and repairs and would always share his knowledge. I bought way more stuff there than I needed just because they were so nice!

I bought there: two Alvarez acoustic guitars, a Cort M600 and a CL1000, a Squier Strat that was a fabulous guitar. a Cort A4 bass (my first bass!) a Crate acoustic guitar amp and way more cables, strings, DI's, and accessories that I can remember. Except for that one bass, all of my others have been bought off of Ebay or here, and my Carvin basses and guitars were orders. That's just off the top of my head. He was good to deal with so I traded a lot of stuff there too. When he got ill and decided to retire he offered my the business, but I declined. I wish I had taken the opportunity now.

BnB
 
i can't remember my last off-the-rack purchase: maybe in the late 80's or early 90's. whenever it was = matching fretted/fretless peavey basses.

i'd buy from any store if i stumbled onto something i liked. i'm more into playing the ones i have, however, so i'm not really 'gassed' about anything these days. (but the TB NBD's spark a little GAS now and then!)
 
American Music (Seattle)
Fender RW Precision
Ibanez Artcore semi-hollow guitar
three Dream cymbals

Everything else was used and came from a private party with the exception of the EB-2, which I bought from a shop in NYC so long ago that I don't remember where it was and don't know if it still exists. Somewhere in the west Village, that's all I can say about the shop.
 
Mainly acquired bought privately rather than from a shop or store, don't think I've ever made a repeat purchase at any one place..back in the 80s there were a few good crummy 'pawn' type places ( well, UK equivalent)
I probably had the occasional odd one from those ...
 
Super Sound: (Vejle) Gibson SG guitar
Musikhuset Aage Jensen: (København) Fender Telecaster guitar, (Århus) Adamas SMT guitar
Rock Sound (Helsingør): Admira classical guitar
Hillerød Musik: Yamaha RBX170 bass
Remaining were purchased online or 2nd hand private deal.
 
Exactly 1. Years ago I bought a Peavey Cirrus 4 string. It was an impulse buy amd I should never have bought it. Don't get me wrong, they're fine basses. It just that the slim neck on that thing felt like a yardstick in my hand. I held on to it for a while but eventually let it go.
 
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Wow. I'm impressed on how many basses and stores were remembered here.

Playing with road bands and touring with Label supported artist for over 20 years, I have no idea how many basses I've owned, let alone what stores or states they were bought in.

In the last decade most were bought on line, but before that, it was always fun to search out a good music store while touring, and seeing what treasures awaited us.
 
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My first 3 basses were bought from store:
'89 PJ copy new
'92 Squier JV Jazz used (still own)
'92 Ibanez Musician Fretless used
Plus in 2012 TC Elec 212 cab new

The next 14 basses have all been thru forums, eBay, etc. I like vintage or boutique gear and that's the only way to find them in Australia.
 
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Guitar Center
Ibanez SR300M
Ibanez BTB405QM

Craigslist
Dean Hollywood Z in Zebra
Ibanez BTB 200
Hamer Kip Winger Impact
Jackson David Ellefson KellyBird

My Buddy's Store
JB Player Parts P
Johnson 5 string
Corbin Jazz

Facebook Local Gear Page
No Name 5 string
Epiphone Thunderbird Pro (NBD today)

From the guy with the Jackson
Fender P
 
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