Don't be that overly zealous guy or the too cool for school guy either. Now that I'm much older and can look like a cranky old bastard when needed, people tend to leave me alone. I just walked away leaving him holding the guitar and headed out the door. "Oh yeah.blah blah, my experience, blah blah, I know everything about this, blah blah." I don't play that one and was just screwing around with it to check out this Gretsch." WTF dude? I finish handing it over to him and sure enough, dude does shred. As I'm farting around trying to remember exactly how it went, Mister Overly Zealous Boomer Guy in a Hawaiian Shirt - no joke (who's a customer) comes over and insists, "No, that's all wrong, here, let me show you, I toured with a surf guitar band and I'm awesome, and blah blah blah)."ĭude reaches out and grabs the neck of the guitar. I then decided to try Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, a fairly easy song that I had never really taken the time to nail down. So I play some hot riffs by Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Satellites, and a few others that I have dialed in perfectly note for note. I think to myself, "Yep, it's a rockabilly guitar (which is exactly what I wanted), but how would it sound playing surf guitar?" I'm messing around, not doing anything in particular. I walked into store #2 a few years later, this time to buy a Gretsch I'd been thinking about. Yep, the good GC employee rolled his eyes like, "Not again." I thanked him and wandered off to another department and out the door. Not-cool overly zealous GC employee jumps in and tells everyone Ernie Ball guitars and strings rule and everything else sucks, and you do too if you don't go that route, then proceeds to grab an Ernie Ball guitar and shreds to prove as much. Yes, I like Fenders and Fender Bullets strings. Cool GC employee helped out and gave advice.
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Grabbed the one I wanted and proceeded to play for awhile.
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I walked into store #1 looking to buy a nice American Std. Both were at different Guitar Center stores. I have two different situations where I went in to buy a guitar with money in hand, and walked away due to douchbags being present.