Went to Guitar Center today

[hammered]

Why do you have to choose ? I love Ratt and Sabbath. I like Whitesnake and I like Wasp. Hell I even like Sammy and DLR. I like Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix and enjoy Satchel too. Why choose when you can have it all ?

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[Racerxrated]

Why do you have to choose ? I love Ratt and Sabbath. I like Whitesnake and I like Wasp. Hell I even like Sammy and DLR. I like Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix and enjoy Satchel too. Why choose when you can have it all ?

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[Rick Lee]

For the second time in three weeks, I found an very underpriced Marshall head on the GC site at about 10pm. As soon as I called the store the next morning, it was gone. There are some great deals at GCs if you know what to look for and what it should cost.

 

[Elric]

They should have a guitar store where you have to prove that you have amazeballs Rig-Talk worthiness level chops before they agree to take your money. There could be a written quiz to make sure you have "good" taste in music. I'm sure that would be an awesome way to run a business. They could call it "Holier Than Thou Music" or "Curmudgeon's Rock Company" or something.

I would elaborate but you'll have to excuse me because it is my lunch break and I have the urge to perform an 'instant gig' @ my local GC. I will be playing a suite of Uli Jon Roth tunes in an attempt to bring instant enlightenment to those in attendance. An extreme measure to be sure but desperate times call for desperate measures. The state of the unwashed masses being what it is and all.

I don't plan to buy anything, *of course*, but I'm between bands and have the urge to play out so I'll be plugged into the used $400 Krank Revolution Half stack they just got under pretense of interest for about an hour at full volume... I'll be in the main show room if you happen to stop by (or are in the parking lot).

They'll probably give me a free set of strings or something if I rock it hard enough. Now where did I put my bandana and beads?

 

[ejecta]

 

[John 14:6]

Better than someone playing Smoke on the Water or Paranoid...

Ill take Sabbath over butt rock any day.

And I will take DeMartini and Ratt over some boring Sabbath riffs or pathetic "modern metal." Guys who can't sing shouting over boring guitar parts and effects like the static am radio thing. Ozzy was a zillion times better with Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee. I will always prefer something that rocks and grooves, and even has a melody.

Rocks , grooves and melody with a side of major balls.

Those 80's glam boys get crushed by this.

Sabbath bored me back in my high school days and they just made me fall asleep. You can buy a shirt at Target of some band that has not done anything decent in 40 years and be trendy if you want to, but I will pass. I only got into Qzzy after he went solo and became more "classic Metal" with the addition of Randy Rhoads. I was way more into Zeppelin and Aerosmith back then. By the late 70's Van Halen hit the scene and took guitar to another level. Then Gary Moore, Uli Roth, George Lynch, Yngwue Malmsteen and others raised the bar even higher. They made the 60's and 70's guys look silly.

No one really cared about Sabbath or punk rock until after everyone jumped on the grunge bandwagon. Guys were tired of actually learning how to play and wanted to pose in a band. They were not musicians, but guys who wanted to be part of a scene. They even made fun of guys who could play. I remember some clowns in a lame 90's band poking fun at Joe Satriani because it sounded like he actually took time to practice. Now days everyone wants instant gratification and success. They buy the uniform with tats and piercings, learn a few chords and riffs, and call themselves a musician. Hell, they even go online and make fun of players who are a thousand times better than they will ever be.

 

[Bronco]

They should have a guitar store where you have to prove that you have amazeballs Rig-Talk worthiness level chops before they agree to take your money. There could be a written quiz to make sure you have "good" taste in music. I'm sure that would be an awesome way to run a business. They could call it "Holier Than Thou Music" or "Curmudgeon's Rock Company" or something.

I would elaborate but you'll have to excuse me because it is my lunch break and I have the urge to perform an 'instant gig' @ my local GC. I will be playing a suite of Uli Jon Roth tunes in an attempt to bring instant enlightenment to those in attendance. An extreme measure to be sure but desperate times call for desperate measures. The state of the unwashed masses being what it is and all.

I don't plan to buy anything, *of course*, but I'm between bands and have the urge to play out so I'll be plugged into the used $400 Krank Revolution Half stack they just got under pretense of interest for about an hour at full volume... I'll be in the main show room if you happen to stop by (or are in the parking lot).

They'll probably give me a free set of strings or something if I rock it hard enough. Now where did I put my bandana and beads?

Epic!

 

[Emperor Guillotine]

You have to prepare yourself for the noise, headache, and overall disappointment when setting foot in a Guitar Center.

 

[Rick Lee]

You have to prepare yourself for the noise, headache, and overall disappointment when setting foot in a Guitar Center.

Usually, yes. I ran into Brad Gillis at the local GC two weeks ago. He was looking for a practice amp. Wouldn't have minded watching him try it out. Ran into Greg Howe at a music store in NJ when I was in high school. Saw Reb Beach in one in college. I've seen some amazing players in music stores, sometimes even kids.

 

[Emperor Guillotine]

You have to prepare yourself for the noise, headache, and overall disappointment when setting foot in a Guitar Center.

Usually, yes. I ran into Brad Gillis at the local GC two weeks ago. He was looking for a practice amp. Wouldn't have minded watching him try it out. Ran into Greg Howe at a music store in NJ when I was in high school. Saw Reb Beach in one in college. I've seen some amazing players in music stores, sometimes even kids.

Wow. That's awesome.

 

[glassjaw7]

Coolest thing I ever saw at Guitar Center was a guy just destroying a strat - major blues/rock/shred going on. Then he pulled an Albert King and flipped the guitar and started doing Jimi/SRV left-handed. Amazing.

Also heard a really good slide player last year at a shop (not GC). I could've listened to him for hours.

 

[Rdodson]

I met Eric Johnson in a GC.

Our local Platinum Room is very cool, run by a good guy with tons of cool stuff. Currently multiple SLOs, a Bogner Helix, a Marshall 4-holer half stack. The entire Friedman line is in another room.

 

[Elric]

I met Eric Johnson in a GC.

Next time you see him there ask him if he could show you how to play "Lay It Down" by Ratt. It'd be hilarious to take this thread full circle when someone posts the following:

"Went to Guitar Center Again"
And some idiot was butchering the 'Lay It Down" riff. Sigh. Typical.
Weird thing was; he looked just like Eric Johnson.

[Pissing and moaning re GC ensues]

 

[messenger]

SILENCE!!! The Great and Powerful Reza has spoken!

 

[snowdog]

A legend in his own mind.

 

[ElectricVoodoo]

Sabbath will always be up there as the greatest. My personal all time favorite band on the face of the earth.

Sabbath can do no wrong in my book, and as much as I love Demartini, I am sure he would also agree on the mighty Sabbath being Kings
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On a side note, I have a new respect for Reza, I didn't know he held Sabbath so highly and for that, he's alright.

 

[Mailman1971]

I don't understand why you guys are putting down people trying out guitars at GC. All of you are bad at some point in your guitar playing career too. I rather see a crappy guitar player enjoy playing music and improve over time then seeing a kid turning into a stupid rapper.

This times 100.

 

[ElectricVoodoo]

Sabbath will always be up there as the greatest. My personal all time favorite band on the face of the earth.

Sabbath can do no wrong in my book, and as much as I love Demartini, I am sure he would also agree on the mighty Sabbath being Kings
'
On a side note, I have a new respect for Reza, I didn't know he held Sabbath so highly and for that, he's alright.

I'm old school man. Zep Sabbath, Hendrix. Floyd.
those are my pillars. everything else I love is derived from them.
I loved Van Halen when I was in high school, because I was fascinated with guitar playing virtuosity.
the hair bands NEVER did anything for me. I was a metallica/thrash metal devotee by the time glam was up and running.

Same here dude. And all the bands that came after the ones you mentioned, will most likely agree that those bands set the standard, started it all, and were huge influences. How many times have we heard the guys in metallica mention deep purple? Well lars I believe says it often.

And just about every mofo out there has mentioned Jimi a million times.

 

[Purpleibby]

I don't understand why you guys are putting down people trying out guitars at GC. All of you are bad at some point in your guitar playing career too. I rather see a crappy guitar player enjoy playing music and improve over time then seeing a kid turning into a stupid rapper.

This times 100.

 

[Rock Bodom]

Eddie, Randy, George, Warren, Jake, Vito, etc. ... these are my favorite guys, I will never be persuaded that their actual more advanced ability to play their instruments is fluff and a band like Sabbath is musically superior. I'm grateful that Sabbath was a key proto-metal group that started to define the sound of what metal would later become, I've got every one of their albums from the Ozzy and Dio era, and enjoy listening to them sometimes and fully appreciate their historical significance, but not remotely a favorite. Would I rather play Bark at the Moon or Paranoid? No contest, Jake any day.

Not that it should be a contest, like other guys have already stated. The coolest cats tend to love it all, more or less.