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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 27, 2020 23:59:43 GMT -5
Newfoundland Yacht Club. Mike
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Post by frazer on Jan 28, 2020 1:22:26 GMT -5
Sending best wishes to your brother in law.
Seconding Rudy's - Spent some quality time there with Howard back in the day. Gordon is a really nice guy.
Howard - were you there that time the guy came in with his girlfriend and was agonizing between some great OM (a Collings?) and a National, and she said "get both" and bought the National for him?
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 28, 2020 6:47:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the info Howard. If I come down to see Thatcher, I will warn you in advance. Thatch will get a kick out of that list of stores.
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Post by howard lee on Jan 28, 2020 7:13:08 GMT -5
Sending best wishes to your brother in law. Seconding Rudy's - Spent some quality time there with Howard back in the day. Gordon is a really nice guy. Howard - were you there that time the guy came in with his girlfriend and was agonizing between some great OM (a Collings?) and a National, and she said "get both" and bought the National for him? I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I may have been, but I don't remember exactly. So much water under the bridge and all. You know, Rudy's has moved downtown, to Soho. The place is all mahogany and looks like a guitar museum.
There is no more Music Row on 48th Street. It's all cheap souvenir shops now, and the building that housed Manny's for more than half a century has been torn down to make way for what will likely be another glass and steel Rock Center monstrosity.
I don't know of any music shops on DeKalb Avenue, jdd2. Were you thinking of Roger Sadowsky's guitar building shop? They have moved to Long Island City, in Queens.
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Post by millring on Jan 28, 2020 7:15:27 GMT -5
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Post by frazer on Jan 28, 2020 20:25:49 GMT -5
Sending best wishes to your brother in law. Seconding Rudy's - Spent some quality time there with Howard back in the day. Gordon is a really nice guy. Howard - were you there that time the guy came in with his girlfriend and was agonizing between some great OM (a Collings?) and a National, and she said "get both" and bought the National for him? I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I may have been, but I don't remember exactly. So much water under the bridge and all. You know, Rudy's has moved downtown, to Soho. The place is all mahogany and looks like a guitar museum.
There is no more Music Row on 48th Street. It's all cheap souvenir shops now, and the building that housed Manny's for more than half a century has been torn down to make way for what will likely be another glass and steel Rock Center monstrosity. I don't know of any music shops on DeKalb Avenue, jdd2. Were you thinking of Roger Sadowsky's guitar building shop? They have moved to Long Island City, in Queens.
Sad to see. I was there at the right time, it seems. I was never a fan of Imanov's - when I was on my quest for a great OM, it was the only store that looked at me askance when I asked to play something. That's if a store can look askance of course!
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Post by howard lee on Jan 29, 2020 7:16:39 GMT -5
Well, Frazer, Umanov shuttered more than a year ago, and I don't miss that shop, either. On a positive note, though, the nicest sales associate from Umanov, Zeke Schein, is now happily ensconced at Rudy's and has been since the other shop closed. Gordon, now a manager of the entire shop, and just about middle-aged, is still a champion among men and a veritable font of guitar knowledge.
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Post by frazer on Jan 30, 2020 18:59:32 GMT -5
Well, Frazer, Umanov shuttered more than a year ago, and I don't miss that shop, either. On a positive note, though, the nicest sales associate from Umanov, Zeke Schein, is now happily ensconced at Rudy's and has been since the other shop closed. Gordon, now a manager of the entire shop, and just about middle-aged, is still a champion among men and a veritable font of guitar knowledge. Good to hear. Hard to imagine Gordon middle-aged. Then again, it's hard to imagine myself as middle-aged.
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Post by howard lee on Jan 30, 2020 21:22:18 GMT -5
Well, Frazer, Umanov shuttered more than a year ago, and I don't miss that shop, either. On a positive note, though, the nicest sales associate from Umanov, Zeke Schein, is now happily ensconced at Rudy's and has been since the other shop closed. Gordon, now a manager of the entire shop, and just about middle-aged, is still a champion among men and a veritable font of guitar knowledge. Good to hear. Hard to imagine Gordon middle-aged. Then again, it's hard to imagine myself as middle-aged. Why imagine? Here he is a couple of years ago.
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Post by frazer on Feb 2, 2020 21:38:43 GMT -5
Good to hear. Hard to imagine Gordon middle-aged. Then again, it's hard to imagine myself as middle-aged. Why imagine? Here he is a couple of years ago.
He's ageing well, dammit!
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Post by t-bob on May 20, 2024 14:09:27 GMT -5
Manny’s Music in Manhattan West 48th Street block known as Music Row. opened in 1935 by Henry Goldrich’s father, Manny This store has almost music items and the rockstars was there too * I came there all the time *
"Today we are remembering Henry Goldrich, “gear guru to the stars”, on what would’ve been his 92nd birthday. When asked about his musical ability, Henry Goldrich would often demur, “I play cash register.” His stage was Manny’s Music in Manhattan, where Goldrich, the longtime owner, supplied equipment to a generation of rock stars. But even though he sold instead of strummed, Goldrich secured an important role in rock by connecting famous musicians with cutting-edge equipment. “To these guys, Henry was the superstar,” his son Judd said. “He was the first guy to get gear they had never seen before.” Manny’s, which closed in 2009 after 74 years in business, was long the largest and best-known of the cluster of music shops on the West 48th Street block known as Music Row. It was opened in 1935 by Goldrich’s father, Manny, and it was a second home for Henry since his infancy, when the shop’s clientele of swing stars doted on him. Ella Fitzgerald would babysit for him in the shop when his parents went out for lunch, Ian Goldrich said. By 1968, when his father died at 62, Henry Goldrich had largely taken over operations and had turned the shop into an equipment mecca and hangout for world-renowned artists. He did this by expanding its inventory of the latest gear and by solidifying connections with suppliers that helped him consistently stock high-level instruments and new products. At a time before rock stars were lavished with the latest equipment straight from the manufacturers, Manny’s was favored by top musicians searching for new gear and testing out new equipment. These included two guitar gods of the 1960s, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton — to whom, Ian Goldrich said, his father recommended the wah-wah pedal, an electronic device that immediately became a staple of both musicians’ approaches. He added that Hendrix would buy scores of guitars on credit and have Goldrich fine-tune them to the guitarist’s demanding preferences. Many rock and pop classics were either played or written on instruments sold by Goldrich. John Sebastian, founder of the Lovin’ Spoonful, recalled in an interview how Goldrich in the mid-1960s helped him select the Gibson J-45 he used on early Spoonful recordings like “Do You Believe in Magic?” Goldrich similarly matched James Taylor with a quality Martin acoustic guitar early in his career, his son Ian said. And Sting used the Fender Stratocaster that Goldrich sold him to compose “Message in a Bottle” and many other hits for the Police before donating it to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1970, he sold Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour the 1969 black Stratocaster he played on many of the band’s seminal recordings. It sold at auction in 2019 for a record $3,975,000. Pete Townshend of the Who would order expensive electric guitars by the dozens from Goldrich, who was not happy when he heard about the guitarist’s penchant for destroying his instrument onstage for theatrical effect. “It was good business,” Ian Goldrich said, “but my father was annoyed that Pete was breaking all the guitars he was selling him.” Unlike many of his flamboyant rock-star customers, Goodrich always dressed conventionally in a sport coat and kept a blunt demeanor that put his customers at ease. “He had a gruff personality; he treated them all the same,” Ian Goldrich said. “He’d tell Bob Dylan, ‘Sit in the back and I’ll be with you in a minute.’ ” There was the day in 1985 — it was Black Friday, and the store was packed — that Mick Jagger and David Bowie stopped by together, creating a commotion that halted sales. An annoyed Goldrich quickly sold them their items and rushed them out. Goldrich died on Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 88." Source: COREY KILGANNON The New York Times Mar 6, 2021
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Post by Marshall on May 20, 2024 17:12:02 GMT -5
... ( I mean I've been to Gruhn, Cotten, and Carter in Nashville. Gryphon in Pal Alto, and most great guitar shops in IL, WI, MI, IN, & some in Iowa. Cosmic treated me in Portland. I used to make a point, whenever I was in a city, to check out a quality store or two. But I blew it with Mandolin Bros.) Is there still that shop out in dekalb? (or ws it someplace closer in?) I wonder if there's still a Rosewood in CU... Axe in Hand. - I don’t know if it’s still there. I bought a Gibson J-100 from them about 30 years ago. That’s a college town, and the owner was about my age.
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Post by Dub on May 20, 2024 17:49:31 GMT -5
Is there still that shop out in dekalb? (or ws it someplace closer in?) I wonder if there's still a Rosewood in CU... Axe in Hand. - I don’t know if it’s still there. I bought a Gibson J-100 from them about 30 years ago. That’s a college town, and the owner was about my age. www.axinhand.com
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Post by Marshall on May 20, 2024 20:41:51 GMT -5
Is there still that shop out in dekalb? (or ws it someplace closer in?) I wonder if there's still a Rosewood in CU... Axe in Hand. - I don’t know if it’s still there. I bought a Gibson J-100 from them about 30 years ago. That’s a college town, and the owner was about my age. www.axinhand.com/
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Post by howard lee on May 21, 2024 6:34:00 GMT -5
frazer By the way, Gordon left Rudy's a few years ago and has been working as a sales rep for TKL Case Company. I haven't been to Rudy's much these last few years, either. Still chummy with a couple of the sales associates there.
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