Good guitar shops in London?

[dave_mc]

^ probably wednesday to sunday. I can do it.  :twisted:

any word on the house of guitars shop? EDIT: don't worry, it seems to be just acoustics and basses :(

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[Kilby]

Oh yeah if you are into Sci-Fi or fantacy books, Forbidden planet is only a couple of hundred yards from Denmark St (infinitely better than the Belfast store of the same name).

Rob...

oi, them's my mates!  and it'll always be the talisman to me... bloody corporate takeovers    

Hey they still get business from me but they should be called Forbidden Planet Lite (or something similar)

Rob...

[Kilby]

^ probably wednesday to sunday. I can do it.  :twisted:

any word on the house of guitars shop? EDIT: don't worry, it seems to be just acoustics and basses :(

:drink:

Hehe, I had no internet when I was home last week and therefore the answer is too late to be of any user to ya dave but here goes,

They do guitars too down in the basement (bassment ?), and usually have quite a lot of interesting 80s and 90s guitars around (2nd hand). But they are pretty dammed amazing for basses.

BTW If you are a leftie, Crack Converters in Lisburn have a Tokai Love rock for sale.

As for Denmark St the only thing that really appealed to me (apart from a couple of nicely shaped young ladies) is the Ric 4005 for sale in music ground though I did have have a massive hangover on the hottest day of the year and was facing a 14 hour bus trip.

Rob...

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oi, them's my mates!  and it'll always be the talisman to me... bloody corporate takeovers    [/quote]

Hey they still get business from me but they should be called Forbidden Planet Lite (or something similar)

Rob...[/quote]

fair point, these days most of the shop is bloody toys and other merchandise!  it was a great place ten years ago though...(goes into nostalgia trip...)

[headtheball]

I was just beating out the Talisman/Forbidden planet thing on Slugger o'Toole this evening...They will still get my business too, kilby, altough rather less willingly than the old smithfield shop used to. Too many kids in the new shop by half.

And back to the topic at hand. Apologies.

[Kilby]

Hey Dave I forgot to ask, did you find anything interesting ?

And back to the topic at hand. Apologies.

Hey what are you apologising for ;) (unless it's to the non Belfast residents at which point I should join in ;) ).

Rob...

[dave_mc]

ah, thanks for asking, rob!

I got to try shedloads of stuff. Not everything I wanted to, but close. I kind of messed up in that (a) I was looking at the wrong charlie chandler's website, so I should have gone to the one in kew and (b) I forgot that stevenage was on the way to hitchin, and by the time I realised it was too late and I hadn't left myself enough time (or energy) and didn't know where coda music was anyway.

So yeah, i'll priobably end up going back though.

I did make it to machinehead in hitchin, the wembley guitar centre and holiday music in leytonstone though- not to mention several days to denmark street.

Unfortunately, it was very warm, so it was energy-sapping to even be bothered to try out stuff- soundproof rooms are apparently not heat-proof... :(

But yeah, it was awesome.

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