Best location for a bass store

[Denial]

Piggybacking on the recent posts by fishtx about what bass or amp brands you'd like to see at your dream bass store. How about location?

Where would your dream bass store be located? In a retail space? Commercial space, like a business park? Does it matter? Can you only shop for basses when your significant other is clothes shopping, or is bass shopping a destination for you and you'll find it wherever it is? How far would you drive?

(Admission: I've gotten on a plane to go to a bass store. Am I an addict? Guilty as charged!)

 

[Chrisk-K]

Far far away from my home and work.

 

[bassplayer8953]

I'd like it to be located next to the local WalMart...which happens to be a couple of blocks from my house!

 

[Avalon]

My back yard would do just fine. I might have less gas if I could try them out regularly.

 

[Rocky McD]

A free standing building in the front parking lot of the worlds biggest guitar center strore. Cities? LA, NYC, or Austin TX.
Rocky

 

[dalkowski]

Next to a divorce attorney's office.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Next to a microbrewery that serves rare steaks...

 

[kenfxj]

Princeton NJ.

 

[KingRazor]

One every mile or so.

 

[pinebrookjohn]

used to be one in scranton pa so sad its gone.

 

[dminer]

We have The Bass Gallery down here and it's moved at least three times since I found out about it....but I always go to their new location...well worth that special trip. Plus, they sell flatwounds!!!

 

[prd004]

Next to a divorce attorney's office.

Haha!

I am lucky, Mike Lull's shop is less than two blocks from my home!

 

[Denial]

We have The Bass Gallery down here and it's moved at least three times since I found out about it....but I always go to their new location...well worth that special trip. Plus, they sell flatwounds!!!

Atlanta Bass Gallery?

 

[Denial]

Next to a divorce attorney's office.

This is the best humorous one so far. I've almost been there!

 

[Denial]

Haha!

I am lucky, Mike Lull's shop is less than two blocks from my home!

I was near Mike Lull's in the 1990s. Great place and great people. Mike has done some amazing work for me.

 

[linken4000]

Princeton NJ.

I grow up in Princeton went to Princeton High...seriously, the place needs a top notch music store.

 

[MiraiHikki]

I had two music stores near my apartment, but the local mom and pop store a ten minute walk away was great. Great for dreaming anyway.

 

[Johnston]

We've looked into getting something started. Done a bit of research etc etc.

The basic consensus was a Bass store doesn't need to be in a high price retail place like a town centre etc tec.

Basically because very few people are going to be buying on a whim or be parents getting the christmas box in but a more considered purchase the fancy store front with high passing trade would be a disadvantage because of the extra overheads involved with little return .

Unlike guitarists bassist seem a bit more accommodating to travel to make a purchase and have a better idea of what they want before getting there.

 

[erigod23]

Next to a drum store. It could be the rhythm section's day out!

 

[pedroims]

close to a big parking lot.