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Where I used to live in Burgess Hill (about 12 miles North of Brighton) you had "The Rock Shop" which seems to have gone now, I drove past it a week or so ago and it looked closed up.
The bloke used to own A shop in Crawley "Badlands" (?) but that went years ago.
Where I am now, in Worthing you have "We Have Sounds" in the town centre which is a great shop, recently downsized, but still good. Lots of secondhand guitars and good selection of accessories.
Also you have "Audio House" which is out of town a bit, does audio equipment and guitars. Used to go in there too when I lived nearer.
Anything they don't have then it's off to Brighton where you have a plethora of establishments to frequent.
I go to the stevenage one but not as much and not when I need a pick and strings. I stock that stuff now.
we are in SW London nr Hampton Court.
Nice with acoustic guitars that you are not dependent on the Fender/Gibson dealership and can support the Martin dealership with quality 'boutique' models - Good luck
I'm surprised we have not had more replies along the lines that I live in Harrogate, Yeovil, Hunslet or Kilmarnock etc etc and we have no guitar/music shop now - Our last shop closed 12 months ago
Even many of the old traditional family orientated stores, that are far more general stockists, have now closed - The shop that had a selection of brass + woodwind along side guitars etc - Some of the big names in the past like McCormacks in Glasgow, Kitchens in Leeds, Eddie Moors in Bournemouth, Greenall's Exeter etc have closed down long ago
For a brief while there was Guitarworks in the town centre. And there was Hamer's on the Oxford Road, although they closed years ago.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Prior to that there was The Sound of Music, which was terrible. In fact most of the stock was that shit that it was affectionately known locally as The Smell of Music. The odd other independent operated from the '70s to '90s, but the nearest decent shop now is Promenade Music in Morecambe, a 30 minute drive away. Quite well stocked with the usual brands, but nothing wow factor.
He does get some weird and wonderful things for sale though. He often picks up obscure, battered old obscure 70s/80s guitars and basses at auctions and car boot sales and then fixes them and gives them a new lease of life. Harry Seven would be in his element!
I think his survival has come down to combining forces and sharing the premises with his mate Willy's Drum Shop. He does basically the exact same sort of thing with drums.
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Guitar Guitar is good, but it's still a bit shocking that it and Scayles are really the only proper guitar shops left in a capital city of over half a million people. Varsity Music doesn't really count, and I'm surprised Rikki's is still (barely) there...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I love Mudpie. It has (and has always had) the most eclectic stock of any guitar shop within 50 miles of me.