Guitar Center story from The Onion

So it's a string thing, right? So if you want to make it BIG, we have play Thomastik-Infelds or Pyramids.

 

Damn... I fell through the crack, again. Any body got a rope?

 

Just finished my Behind The Music which starts at a GC.

 

I'm going tomorrow

 

With all the "New" bands, *90's-2000's and GC and on line have put most mom and pop stores are gone
I would think that most players have visited a GC at some point.

How the hell do they come up with those numbers?

 

Actually I prefer Sam Ash. I went to a Guitar Center this past weekend to buy a power conditioner for my new Rack that I am building.. Seems that all the crappy people are gone out of there actually got good customer service for the first time in a long time. 3 years ago I went in there and bought a warlock bass and a GK head and 4/10 GK cab, they told me that they didn't have a case to fit the Bass so I had them order the coffin case, 4 weeks later still no case. I took it upon myself to call Coffin and they told me that they had no order for my case on file, they gave me the part number for the case I needed, and I called Guitar Center with the part number and low and behold, they had the case in stock the whole time so still Sam Ash is my first stop and GC is my last!

 

New band name ... "Damn the Cracks"

 

lol I hadn't read the Onion in a while. Great article!

 

El Toro Poo Poo

 

If music executives are truly prowling the aisles at Guitar Centers (at least the 2 or 3 I visit regularly) looking for the "next big thing" they're wasting their time. Unless the next big thing is cleverly disguised as a novice baby boomer, holding a $2000 Les Paul, painfully working his way through the opening riffs of Smoke on the Water.....

 

The Funk Congress piece is maybe the funniest thing I've read ever. Awesome.

 

Hey Rich,
74.506% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

 

My favourite part " Whether any of these fledgling reform movements will have a genuine impact on the entrenched groove machine is uncertain. One thing, however, is not: A growing number of citizens are fed up with the nation's current leadership for putting party politics before the need of the people to turn this mother out." : D

 

I better plan a trip to a Guitar Center next week then and I may still have time to make the 88% for this year. I will have to brush up on some annoyingly sloppy snapping and popping bass solos.

 

If only that 12% knew to purchase EVERYTHING that their favorite musician uses...then they'd be just as famous. Sad, really