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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
Consider that 2 years ago, the Nashville GC spent who knows how much money on a complete redo of the store, inside and out. They expanded the guitar space by probably double, but shrank the pro/recording area down to nearly nothing(and Nashville is #3 nationwide in recording sales) But hey...now they have tons more over-priced Gibsons on display..............
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
I personally think what has happened to "music" and what is called music is disgusting. Not because of content, but because of lack of depth. Most every pop song is on the same subject that has been beat to death and offers nothing new. Someone programs a loop, someone else buys it and scats random rhyming words over it, and people eat it up because it's easy.
My personal pet peeve is "artists" who present themselves as 'hardcore', yet have no idea what a struggle even is. Like a certain artist who likes to pretend he's from the streets, but grew up on the Disney channel It makes me laugh. But, that said, we as musicians, engineers, and in a larger sense, creators; we have all the tools we need with Pro Tools and our various plugins to produce the kind of art that we believe is better. You can't tell anyone anything in this world, they have to come to it on their own. What we can do though is produce a superior product. Set trends, don't follow them. Produce the kind of music and art that you feel needs to be out there. And luckily for us today, we don't need labels or promotion or giant businesses to front us tons of cash before we can start! We can make a modest $1000 investment in gear and plugins and do whatever we want. That's the only way to change this. Build a better mouse trap.
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
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Not to mention the community that built up between the players. You'd walk in and see a buddy playing and ask him how he's doing and he'd do the same back to you. Sometimes you'd even end up playing the same piece while the patzers would just stand around and listen/watch. That's all gone as the salesdroids are in your face going - 'you gonna buy that or what?' Who needs that crapola. |
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
This probably explains a lot of what's going on with Avid.
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
Definitely not nationwide. The local GC here hasn't been renovated since it opened. A good friend of mine works there and he told me recently that there's is the #1 store in the region in sales. Considering there's some larger stores in bigger markets in the region, that's impressive. Especially since they have no recording department to speak of...but lots and lots and lots of guitars, amps, and decent drum department. Keyboard area is pitiful. They don't even have a Montage on the floor! As far as interfaces go...well, its a sad state of affairs to say the least!
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
They just finished revamping 1 of the 2 stores in Austin.
They made it really nice - improved their stock of top shelf guitars about 50% Made big improvements in Synths (lots more of them) but I still haven’t seen Pro audio stuff. I was just in there Friday my daughter wanted a Tambourine.... They also have lots of guitar pedals
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
I used to really like going to the GC on Westheimer in Houston, before they moved a couple of miles down the road to a new location about twice the size. Over the years I have bought tons of stuff there, including my American Strat, guitar pedals, and a used TSR-8 and Tascam M-320B mixer which I still use (not the TSR-8, I messed that up changing the capstan belt a couple of years ago).
I remember walking into the old location once and they had a pile of used guitar cases laying in the middle of the floor. All were priced at $5 each. I bought a genuine Fender bass guitar case. It needed some repairs like gluing down the inside case liner which I did myself. I gave it away to the person I sold my Fender Jazz bass to. Edit: One of the employees at the old location was my audio recording instructor at Houston Community College where I took a few classes and he sold me boxes of Ampex 499 1/2" 8 track tapes at cost (maybe because I paid a fortune for the used TSR-8).
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
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Re: Guitar Center nearly $1bil in Debt...
They've been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for a decade. I suspect their stock simply reflected who they could get credit from.
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