Official MWGL Stoopid Dealz of the Day Thread!....
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shoeless
Riffin'
Dean guitars has an interesting history. Zelinsky started the company as a teenager and was selling custom guitars to stadium-filling rock icons. Now they're basically considered entry-level instruments. The wheels must have really come of somewhere along the way.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Dean guitars has an interesting history. Zelinsky started the company as a teenager and was selling custom guitars to stadium-filling rock icons. Now they're basically considered entry-level instruments. The wheels must have really come of somewhere along the way.
It's almost like when a brand has notoriety and a bunch of suits buy the brand, the inspired creator of the brand leaves, and the suits continue to run the brand like a dollar general...
... somehow that doesn't create the best products. Huh... who would have thunk it?
*coughgibsonfuckedmesaboogiecough*
jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
Walmart Strat copy $8.88. Seems pretty stoopid.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
But.... at that price, I could buy a pair of them, chain their headstocks together... and make some KICK ASS Nunchaku!!!
bsman
b00b
I had one of those cases - almost bulletproof.
shoeless
Riffin'
But is it baggage handler proof?
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
That looks to be about the same size as the Vox mini-guitar that's up today. (18.7" scale length
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Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
I have one and it’s a great bass for a silly price.
jrockbridge
Stealing Your Riffs
That looks to be about the same size as the Vox mini-guitar that's up today. (18.7" scale length
“Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?”
-Yoda
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Okay.... I have to cut MF some slack. I still hate them for killing Woodwind and Brasswind and for turning the guitar centers into cookie-cutter Walmart-for-Musicians...
... but there are definitely people who work there who are good guys. I know a guy that has worked at Guitar Center (since they closed WW&BW on him) and he's super cool... and this guy Tristen who helped me out with a return tag for the Traveler guitar (won't stay in tune for shit) and we had a nice conversation about the music scene in Nashville.
UPS however is on my shit list. They closed the customer counter at the hub that was a few miles from my house.... then I spent my entire lunch hour driving up to the one at the airport... and they CLOSED THAT ONE TOO!!! Basically you have to get your labels online or get them packed at a UPS store and then find a UPS drop off.
... but there are definitely people who work there who are good guys. I know a guy that has worked at Guitar Center (since they closed WW&BW on him) and he's super cool... and this guy Tristen who helped me out with a return tag for the Traveler guitar (won't stay in tune for shit) and we had a nice conversation about the music scene in Nashville.
UPS however is on my shit list. They closed the customer counter at the hub that was a few miles from my house.... then I spent my entire lunch hour driving up to the one at the airport... and they CLOSED THAT ONE TOO!!! Basically you have to get your labels online or get them packed at a UPS store and then find a UPS drop off.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
They are part of Armadillo Enterprises. From what I know about them, they like to suck the soul out of a company and just try to make money. They basically pushed Yvonne DeVilliers out of Luna Guitars, the company she founded. I don't think the quality of the guitars changed much, but Luna no longer has the heart that made them special.Dean guitars has an interesting history. Zelinsky started the company as a teenager and was selling custom guitars to stadium-filling rock icons. Now they're basically considered entry-level instruments. The wheels must have really come of somewhere along the way.
bsman
b00b
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
That's too bad, but.....
Dig Gary crushing on a luthier!
Yvonne was very kind to me and shared some of what was going on. It was a shame. (And yes, she was attractive and about my age, but I am happily married...)
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
In fairness to Guitar Center they’re much better under the new CEO. Instead of a store of beginner gear there’s lots of high end stuff right out on the floor where you can play it. My understanding is that most of the stores now resemble the stores they used to only have in wealthy towns like the Scottsdale store. The drawback is that if you need a practice amp they might not have anything in stock; when I bought my Ampeg bass amp last week I had to go mail order because everything they had in stock was high end.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
That was the thing I appreciated about the ones around the Midwest… small towns would have the typical Ibanez and such, but I would go to Chicago or Kalamazoo and find cool PRS and used stuff.
The last 5 or 10 years if someone dropped you in a random guitar center it was like being dropped in a random shopping center best buy.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Squire Classic Vibe Bass... killer looking for $349
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