Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Whatevs Best Buy Opens Musical Instrument Stores: Nerds Intrigued but Wary
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:37 PM
There’s hardly a more simultaneously fulfilling and irritating experience than shopping for gear. Though I personally do the majority of my shopping at Fork’s, on occasion I wander into a Sam Ash or a Guitar Center, where, without fail, I am greeted with one of two sales approaches: I am utterly ignored, left to wait at the counter for half an hour just to buy some sticks…or a soul-patched, pony-tailed joker plays me his all-time top five favorite fills before telling me why the snare I’m interested in is way less cool than his own.
Well, another corporate behemoth has entered the pool of musical equipment suppliers. It seems as though Best Buy do have one thing going for them: Their salespeople aren’t commissioned. I’m not sure if that means it will be a low-pressure environment or if I’ll get no service whatsoever because no one gives a shit if I buy something or not. Anyhow, Rivergate’s grand opening was last weekend, and Brentwood’s is next weekend, Nov. 7-9. There will be performances from Joey & Rory and The Bridges and buy-three-get-one-free on strings, straps, cables, sticks and more.
Also, regarding the cabinets in the above image, is there actually a line of equipment with a sweet, gnarly griffin as its logo? Please tell me there is.
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there's also supposedly a new music shop in east nashville, somewhere on forrest (same street as the 5spot) that has picks, heads, sticks, etc... (basically the shit you hate having to drive all the way to __insert chain store here__, if you're an east-sider.
now we can all play music again with our new options!
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It's called East Side Music Merchantile, and it's directly across the street from Red Door. I haven't been in it yet, but apparently they sell acoustic instruments too.
More options are always nice; I just hope they don't hire the usual music store employees described above. The chain store employees make me depressed. Those places are littered with guys who just aren't ever gonna make it and it's too late to do anything else. I don't really get pissed at those guys because I know they're getting the shit end of the stick.
Forks FTW, I just wish they had the hours they used to.
I don't see a Pearl logo up there, wonder if they're gonna carry them...
so what brands do you suppose they will push? m audio? crate? i just can't imagine they'd carry drums. they've always had a lonely keyboard or two in a misc aisle.
Who needs all that other crap when you can have me? I can sound like a violin. Like an electric guitar. Shit, I can even do drums!
We at Lake Fever feel that the griffin on our logo is not only sweet and gnarly, but also totally bitchin' and rad to the max. Of course, we are quite biased. Especially since the griffin is my second favorite mythological beast, just behind the mighty centaur.
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