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Guitar Player carried on until the early 90s.
First series brand new Relic for about a grand off, my MkIV Boogie 1x12 combo in hardwood with a much needed wheeled flighcase, so may pedals and bits. Massively missed bloke.
She had a yellow cellophane awning in the front window, to stop the sheet music from ageing in the sunlight!
I used to walk past it on my way into town, where there was a shop called Tower Music. I seems strange but I don't recall there being any new guitars in there - it was nearly all second-hand stuff, a far cry from today's glitzy shops...
But did not recall GP carried on that long
Not sure now where to go.
Later there was the truly great 7 Sounds and the guitar tech left to start the equally great Can U Music. The latter business came to an abrupt end when builders working on next door, caused both houses to collapse.
Although I was an adult and had decent bass gear, I loved going in Coda in the early 90's. Till buy stuff in Coda and still like a kid in a sweetshop at the age of 58/
For the brief time it was open I used to window shop and occasionally try stuff out at Hertford Music, which became Gig Gear and consolidated into the Harlow premises.
We've all been there. Not at Coda, but somewhere similar...
When I was younger I'd quite often take a long train trip to visit some guitar shop or other, only to feel so intimidated that I wouldn't dare to ask about the guitar I was interested in. Sometimes I wouldn't even go in the shop, I'd just turn round and go all the way home again.
Jeff Pumfret, owner of Machinehead - what a character!
In that case, we need to knowingly bump into each other once lockdown is over!
My Saturday pilgrimages were very similar, with a few additions:
TR Music (Walsall)
Hingos (Walsall)
Sound Centre (Walsall)
Disco Sound (Wednesbury)
Langdon's Electric Music (Wolverhampton)
One Way Music (Wolverhampton)
Arcade Music (Cannock)
S&J (Lichfield)
Musical Exchanges (Birmingham)
Woodroffe's (Birmingham)
There were others, but I can't remember them all now...my all-time favourite is TR Music in Walsall - known them forever. Still a great place for unusual S/H stuff and always up for a deal.
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Back in my teens I'd catch the train from Merthyr to Cardiff most weekends just to have a look around Cranes. I loved that place, it's a shame its gone.
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