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I can't remember if it was there when I lived in NYC in the early to mid-80s. I recall some kind of music store on 57th, but my memory may be garbling up 57th and 48th. There was a shop on St. Marks that was fun, and another one in the West Village somewhere. The one in the West Village is where I got the EB-2 after unexpectedly selling the Danelectro/Coral Free Bass to the guy behind the counter at the shop on St. Marks. New York is a bit of a fog now, after having not lived there for so long.
 
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Gaolee said:
I can't remember if it was there when I lived in NYC in the early to mid-80s. I recall some kind of music store on 57th, but my memory may be garbling up 57th and 48th. There was a shop on St. Marks that was fun, and another one in the West Village somewhere. The one in the West Village is where I got the EB-2 after unexpectedly selling the Danelectro/Coral Free Bass to the guy behind the counter at the shop on St. Marks. New York is a bit of a fog now, after having not lived there for so long.
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We didn't stray from 48th. We had a few local shops in Queens we frequented.
 
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Gaolee said:
I can't remember if it was there when I lived in NYC in the early to mid-80s. I recall some kind of music store on 57th, but my memory may be garbling up 57th and 48th. There was a shop on St. Marks that was fun, and another one in the West Village somewhere. The one in the West Village is where I got the EB-2 after unexpectedly selling the Danelectro/Coral Free Bass to the guy behind the counter at the shop on St. Marks. New York is a bit of a fog now, after having not lived there for so long.
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There were a lot more shops then, then there is now.

And they had great stuff, always from what I remember.
 
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kat888 said:
Eventually, this anecdote always makes an appearance.

Years and years ago I worked with a bloke from the deep south of NZ whose family had a civil engineering firm. Bear in mind, this is the sheep-farmingest part of a country about which Australians make incessant sheep shagging jokes (just so you know the exact limits of their intellects).

Anyway, one day Stewart's brother was straddling a hydraulic ram and collapsing it after a job somewhere. He managed to get his willy caught quite nastily, required a visit to A+E, and was sore for a long time. When it was time to fill out the accident compensation form, in the box where it asks you to describe the nature your injury, he wrote 'penis caught in ram'.
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Count Bassie said:
Sitting here in the Warwick RI Guitar Center, in the bass section. There is nothing at all inspiring here, to my sensibilities. Some SUB basses, a few Fenders, a mess of Squires, a few other cheap things you see around all over the place now... And a 32" scale Hagstrom HB-4, used, for $349, with a very poorly cut pick guard. China... Bummer.

I dunno, maybe someone else would be pumped, but I'm just decidedly underwhelmed.

Nothing to see here, move along...
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Sounds like mine, depressing going in there.
 
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So, after hastily getting rid of her I got her back! I got one of the first '13s then was offered a price I couldn't refuse. Later I wanted another and actually found a new one at Southpaw where I got the first one. Played a couple shows and just up and decided it had to go. Why? Don't know. Maybe to fund my custom spector which I sold. Now it's back and the funny thing, it's exactly like it was when I sold it down to the strings and tuning (D). Got it for what I sold it for.
Added my kill switch cuz it's my live necissty and swapped to gold knobs. I also had these cool red X decals so I put em on. I think it looks cool. I think it needs a good bird decal now. Suddenly I have this thing for gold which I've always hated. Sounds killer through my GK 800rb + 2x15 at home. Armed and ready!
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JJR58 said:
There were a lot more shops then, then there is now.

And they had great stuff, always from what I remember.
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Last great shop I visited (a few years ago) was Chicago Music Exchange - it was nice being accepted as an adult who could pull out a gold card to buy anything there (boy were they hopeful!) letting me play any vintage bass there (and there were a lot there and yes I did play a choice few) - closest I'll ever get to a wonderful '61 J that was a joy to play. (w/a small $20K taggy) :rolleyes:
 
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Count Bassie said:
Sitting here in the Warwick RI Guitar Center, in the bass section. There is nothing at all inspiring here, to my sensibilities. Some SUB basses, a few Fenders, a mess of Squires, a few other cheap things you see around all over the place now... And a 32" scale Hagstrom HB-4, used, for $349, with a very poorly cut pick guard. China... Bummer.

I dunno, maybe someone else would be pumped, but I'm just decidedly underwhelmed.

Nothing to see here, move along...
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I was in my local one Sunday, waiting for my kid to finish drum lessons. I go play until he's done, but they had the entire section closed off due to chunk of ceiling coming down. I had withdrawal symptoms
 
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JIO said:
Last great shop I visited (a few years ago) was Chicago Music Exchange - it was nice being accepted as an adult who could pull out a gold card to buy anything there (boy were they hopeful!) letting me play any vintage bass there (and there were a lot there and yes I did play a choice few) - closest I'll ever get to a wonderful '61 J that was a joy to play. (w/a small $20K taggy) :rolleyes:
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:confused:, oh man.
 

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