Guitar shops in Rome?

iseverynamegone

I'm off there next week - any nice shops anyone!

Loobs

There's a Gibson showroom near Vatican in Prati. Rome isn't exactly a guitar player's dream destination. Go and get some culture, mannn.

Loobs

Go to Pizzarium.

iseverynamegone

I shall pray at the gibson altar

xSkarloey

Don't hang about at the Forum: too many Romans hanging about and getting shirty while discussing guitars.

grungebob

You could try Ed Romans but I hear he's a bit of a dick

Elx

grungebob said:

You could try Ed Romans but I hear he's a bit of a dick

Was...Died a few years ago...

grungebob

Elx;339770" said:

grungebob said:

You could try Ed Romans but I hear he's a bit of a dick





Was...Died a few years ago...

I know but I couldn't resist a very tenuous pun

Flanging_Fred

There's a small but fantastically well stocked (especially boutique pedals) shop on the large road that goes between the coliseum and the main train station. The road is called Via Cavour. I went at Easter and its got loads of drooly stuff. Not particularly cheap though.

badlydrawnbanjo

Flanging_Fred said:

There's a small but fantastically well stocked (especially boutique pedals) shop on the large road that goes between the coliseum and the main train station. The road is called Via Cavour. I went at Easter and its got loads of drooly stuff. Not particularly cheap though.

I think I saw that from an open top bus. Single from shop with loads of pedals in the window?

ADP

Knowing my luck, if I went to Rome any guitar shop would be closed. I went there years ago and everything was closed, turned off, boarded up, covered in scaffolding... I saw the Vatican but that was about it. Trevi fountain? Dry. The forum? Plywood shuttering all around it. Couldn't even see it, never mind go into it. I must go back some time and see what I missed the first time.

DrBob

Nearly got the rage on last time I was in Rome..

I was walking towards the Coliseum and as I passed a couple of uber geek American students one of them turned the other and said.
"I'm about to have a very specific water need.."
WTF ?

Mind you whilst I was there I did run into this bloke at the Trasimeno Blues festival;

http://www.flaviocamorani.it/index.php?lang=en

And he let me have a go on a few. Woot !

CHRISB50

As @Loobs said, get some culture! It's an amazing city. Really bloody expensive though.