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Post by chris on Dec 7, 2012 12:20:21 GMT -5
this is a video posted recently. It is our famous House of the Guitars better known as the H.O.G. just a few blockes from me. Some very interesting music history that Armand shared. (about 10 min into the video they mention Utica's Joe Bonamassa)
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Post by dave on Dec 7, 2012 14:47:11 GMT -5
Remind me not to volunteer to help if they ever move to a new building! There can' be a square inch of spare space!  |
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Post by chris on Dec 8, 2012 1:10:55 GMT -5
Dave when I go there to buy a CD I just ask the salesperson at the desk to get it for me. To have to hunt trough the stuff always gave me a heacdache. They know exactly where everything is and yet it looks like mad caos to me. How they clean in there (if they do) is beyond me. There are three brothers and one sister in the family all with some interesting background of their own. The younger brother, Blaine is personal friends with my brother and his wife. Their kids and my nieces grew up together.
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Post by dave on Dec 8, 2012 6:45:28 GMT -5
How is their merchandise? A friend once told me he didn't think they took good care of their stock. He was referring to instruments.
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Post by chris on Dec 8, 2012 19:53:07 GMT -5
I can't answer that question. The guitars and the musical intruments are in a differnt building. I've only gone in the front enterance to pick up tickets but mostly in the back where the CD's and LP's are. Never actually traveled through the entire building. Everyone should see it at least once for the experience. There is no other place like it.
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Post by dave on Dec 8, 2012 22:17:23 GMT -5
When my son was a teenager some thirty years ago, I took him up to a place in Albany on Washington or Madison or Central ... I can't remember, but it was down near the old SUNY campus and not in the greatest part of town, even back then. The music store was quite popular for guitars and such. It was a Saturday and I sort of ambled around the store while my son tried out quite a few guitars. He had to stand in line for a few of the more popular because there were so many kids and twenty-somethings there for the same reason. At the time I wondered how shop worn these instruments would be since they were played continuously. Sticky fingers and nicotined fingers and (use your imagination) fingers played up and down the fretboard all day long.
I asked a clerk if one happened to buy a particular guitar would one get a new in the box guitar. No, he said, each guitar is unique, you might not get the same exact sound. What about all the usage they get on display, I asked. That's the business, he said. No one seems to mind, he added. And he was probably right.
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