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You know, there used to be a time when, if you walked into a local music shop and they had a Gibson LP on the wall (or a Fender Strat for that matter), it would be a major event. Practically, the whole town would turn out to look at it.
I kind of miss that.
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I think those times are on their way back to be honest.
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is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
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Errr...did he? Sorry...no idea what you're referring to.
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^ I remember Bell's Music, who way back in the early 80s - maybe even before that - used to have a printed catalogue with black and white pictures of Strats and Teles, ashtray bridges intact. It always made me think of Bert Weedon....
I don't know about the EC connection.
It was big news to get a guitar that said 'Made In Japan' let alone 'Made In America' on the headstock !
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Maybe there's an evening class we could sign up for or something ?
They always had an ad in the national papers offering catalogues by post, quite a thick tome too. I guess they must have got lots of business from people out in the sticks.
This was a place of pilgrimage for me to from Hersham on my bicycle for a nose up against the window on a Sunday or school holiday. As were:
ABC Music Esher and Addlestone
Jon King Sounds Kingston
Riverside Organ Studios Kingston (for anything resembling a synth that I might be able to afford)
Hands Music Kingston for Farfisa or Bontempi organs
Woolworths Kingston - for guitar amp options...
An actual Les Paul (or Le Paul as we all called them) or a Fender Telecaster on the wall was a big deal. You never saw many Strats and never any Fender amps - mostly WEM, Carlsboro and Sound City and some older Selmer PA stuff. Jon King Sounds broke the mould by stocking copious Strats and Teles in mid 70s and some Marshalls.
Jon King Sounds was here where Bits and Bobs were...
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@AuldReekie @Fretwired @proggy @midlifecrisis ; - In a previous conflab I had with Bill Nelson, he revealed how he too used to urgently wait for the new Bells Music catalogue to come and would skip off after to school with his mate and sit on a wall and paw over all the guitars that they would someday possibly own!