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The Music Store That Started it ALL for Me
🕑 Added 2022-06-21 14:31:09 +0000 UTCHey guys!
Do you remember your first guitar store? I know i do! For a lot of young players, their experience of getting into music might be as simple as a few clicks to buy a guitar then its off to youtube to learn how to use it. But for my generation, and every generation before me, it all began at our local music shops!
(boy howdy do i feel old talking about "my generation".... yikes!)
Lloyd's Music Mart in Morristown TN was such an important place for me. After 49 years of serving the local community, Phil Lloyd decided to start his retired life and close the store down. I learned how to play there, i took lessons there, i bought my first pieces of gear there, and i made lifelong musical connections there.... the least i could do is pay tribute and share with you all what it meant to me and so many other people in my area!
Hope you all enjoy this documentary style video. If nothing else, enjoy hearing just how strong my accent comes back when i go home hahahaha
Tell me about your first guitar shop and what it meant to you!!!
Comments
Alex Counsell
Mine was a place called Live Wire in Cardiff (Wales, UK), and it was there that I played my first BC Rich Warlock, and was smitten... had been for ages from music videos, but had never seen one in the UK in person... Then I found out that they had signed a deal to be the first Official UK importer of BC Rich guitars, so I used all my savings to put a deposit down on a Black NJ Series Warlock and waited, and waited and waited, and about 4 months later I got a phone call from them to say that there was good news and bad news about my order... The good news was that the stock had finally arrived, but the bad news was that there were no black warlocks in the shipment, only white or red... so I went into the shop on the first weekend that I could, and saw a Fire Engine Red Warlock, fell in love and we lived happily ever after!! This was in 1987 and I still have that guitar to this day!
Andrew Wilkinson
I may be wrong , butvavteacher once teaching me how to tune , th a the beats between the out of tune notes that should be in tune is called ,inter modulation distortion no less , his exact words lol
