Guitar Store Owner Shows Me His PRIVATE HOARD!
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2019
- In this video, we'll visit Abba's Music Store in Henderson, Kentucky. I bought my first, second, and third electric guitars at this store and took my first lesson from it's owner. I've always made it a point to stop in from time to time because it's always like a treasure hunt in there. Never know what you're going to see, especially in THE BACK of the store! You're about to see some cool vintage gems. Stick around to the end to see what I bought.
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Don’t ever lose your enthusiasm, Brad. You probably just took thousands of guys back to their childhood music store and lessons days. Good stuff.
Absolutely true! It did just that for me. MAE music in South Florida was my childhood haunt.
Stores and guys like this make the world worth living in. Everyone should do what they can to support them any way they can, small or large.
These are the places that we need to protect and support because they are so important and you don't realize it until the store is gone. So spend a little extra and support local business! Thanks for sharing Brad!
I agree 1000%!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely. Support small businesses in general too. The loss of small businesses in America is a travesty.
Be sure to spend actual cash when visiting your local stores. Use the plastic for the box stores.
I had found a couple of old shops full of Vintage Guitars now gone one filled National slide older than dirt. one was $150.00 and I had no money luck of the draw a Rickenbacker with Amp in the case $125.00 and I regret not buying that one had the money in my pocket too. a 63 just like John Lennon's Dam it went Quick.
We lost our last true mom and pop music store about a year ago because a city official who bought a store for his wife in a adjoining building decided he didn’t want to hear the instruments (super old building) And didn’t want to share parking so he found out who owned the building and bought it and pulled there lease and business license
The family showed up for work to the city official and a deputy telling them they were evicted and they had so long to get out what they could get out
It’s kinda depressing to drive by and see pianos and drum sets and other stuff they weren’t able to get out still setting in store on display like they’re just closed for the day
Mostly all they were able to get out was guitars ,amps and related stuff
Love the tour. I can smell the place OH that wonderful smell of a guitar store !!! i used to skip the first (2nd and 3rd too) city bus after school to sit and play in my hometown music store For hours. When I went back 30 years later the guitar guy still remembered me :)
nice JAG Sir!
This is why TheGuitologist channel is essential viewing for us vintage gear loving people. The store was like a time capsule. Loved it!!!
Damn that strat is amazing! That whole guitar store is amazing. Not many stores like that around anymore.
How do feel about prices of vintage strats now days brad?
Extremely cool music store! They all used to be like this, absolutely loved going in old music stores. Amazing that a store like this still exists only 15 miles away from a Guitar Center. Just shows that some people actually do have good taste and a reverence for stuff that matters.
Yeah,I still only go to corporate stores as a last resort.
People should always support local shops if possible.
GC can ** my hairy b***s
Literally impossible for me there's a local guitar builder, a posh dealer, and everybody else wants like 3x more for all the basics. Gonna have to go online. I literally can't find anything in store anymore.
Thanks to Chris and the guys for letting us see "stuff we all don't need,but HAVE to look at...".
The guitarist in me loves the gear, but the packrat in me loves the _hunt_ for the gear. Great video, Brad! Hope you do more like this.
I could watch this for hours....thanks Brad!!
I was just about to leave the exact same comment.
Hey brad . This is great , thanks for the treat . Also thanks to the store owner for allowing it . Seems a cool guy.
Thanks Brad for the road trip and blast from the past,Cheers
These old mom & pop stores are a national treasure, killer video, thanks !
Wow! What a music store. That old Strat, amazing. In fact, everything is just majestic. In fact, I could live in that back room. That back room is a lifestyle. Fantastic video. I’ve watched it 3 times now. Thanks for the show!
Case candy an all
I enjoyed the adventure into the golden years of visiting local businesses. In this music store they would have thrown me out because I'd want to play just about everything. God bless.
This was lots of fun!🙂. I spent my whole Friday Nite on your channel. Thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
Brad, thanks for doing this episode! It brought back a lot of memories for me, great ones in fact! Keys music and Shivelbine's music both of which I worked for during the Eighties and nineties in Cape Girardeau. They both had areas like this in each store(which kept me in debt!LOL!) You're right though, stores of a gone by era(unfortunately)
Again, THANK YOU!!!
When I was a kid, I used to spend sunup to sundown in the woods, just exploring. That back room would be my modern-day equivalent.
Same here, buddy. Loved the woods as a youth.
How fun..you're right...just like treasure hunt. Thanks for taking us along Brad!
OMG Brad that was awesome ! I come from an antique dealing family and that brought back a lot of memories . I'm looking forward to the repair vids on that National ,thanks for sharing this with us !
Me too on that national, bet it would make a nice harp amp !
@@goodun6081 Yep, antiquing 101.:-)
I would lose a whole day wandering around in that place. In my hometown we have an old fashioned hardware that is just like that. You do a little digging and you find a real gem just hiding there, waiting to be discovered. Next time I am even close to that area I am making the effort to stop there.
21:24 “I’m waiting for the market to crash to buy it...”
So I’m going to say that is now...
Thank you for this video. I worked in a old music store like this in Amarillo Texas and it was full of hidden treasure as well. This video took me back. What a great man to allow you to show the world his treasures. Bravo
Thanks for the fun tour, Brad!!
Been a long time since I've been to Abba's. Drove right by there yesterday on my way back to Louisville...
This topic would make a great weekly series...Your knowledge and insight are greatly appreciated and very entertaining.
If anyone owns a store they'd like me to visit, comment here!
Super cool, Brad !
These local shops keep music Alive . As a kid I would walk past window and dream of the opportunity . These places sell dreams 👍
Love Abbas... Saw my old Ibanez rg that I traded in about a month or so ago... So far I've taken a Strat, Les Paul, Parker, Peavy bass, Peavy bass amp and a Vox off of their hands. Great doing business with them.
Garnet amps were made here in Winnipeg Manitoba. A friend of mine learned a lot of his tube theory from Garnet and made his own amps as well. Sadly Garnet passed away several years ago around Christmas. His amps are amazing and crazy loud, they take mods really well if you like that louder Marshall crank sound.
Gar Gillies also wrote a fantastic book about tube amp circuits and design. Highly Recommended!
Granite amps are great stuff I’ve only seen one
They were all friends with the Guess Who and some of the big hits the band had used Garnet Amps - special tone
Thanks for the tour of Abba's Music Store. I love going into those old stores and seeing all the treasures they have collected over the years. I was not aware that WC Handy had lived in Henderson Ky but after some research, I found out he met his wife Elizabeth there and made it his home for 4 years before moving back to his home town of Florence AL. As a resident of Florence, I get to enjoy the annual WC Handy Festival and I highly recommend to everybody.
Very cool Brad another awesome video what are you going to do to top yourself for the next one?... can’t wait, keep me posted!
This was fun for me personally. My grandfather had several of the vintage guitars you showed in the back room. Unfortunately I was young and dumb when he passed and all of it was sold off by the family. It was a nice flashback to my time with him. Good luck with the National amp. Looking forward to seeing it on the workbench. Thanks Brad!!
Very cool. Glad I ccould bring back those memories for you.
This was a fantastic video because it is what I do in the older stores in Rochester,ny for many years. It is so fun to see what they have hidden away and with hopes of getting a deal .
One of the best videos I have seen in a while. Very enjoyable, Brad !
Great video! More of these would be awesome! Thanks Brad for your time!
Yay! Back in my neck of the woods again. Spent so many hours both at Abba's and at Goldmans Pawn during my life. Great memories!
Next time I'm down I'll do Goldman.
Very cool!
Between you and Uncle Doug, I learn a lot about amps. Until this video, I've never even heard of ZAK/Garnet amps. That 63 Strat was just dead sexy! Gotta love stores like this!
Felt right at home. Enjoyed the journey back in time. I purchased many a basket case guitars. Teles and strats combined. Amps,,,,,,,yes I love the amps. While everyone was looking for raw power, I was repairing and rebuilding small wattage amps. Old tv shops and military/reserve facilities still had tubes. Now,,,,,,,,everyone is selling them. Ok enough reminiscing, thanks for the vlog......Peace out.
Thank you, Brad! That was great seeing all the stuff he had stowed away in the backroom!
Wow, what a cool place. Not too many shops like this left- I bet I know what it smells like. Holy inventory.
I will dream of going guitar shopping because of this
I’m trying to understand how 25 people could dislike this video. Pure joy for a gear head. That Magnatone! I just got one of the newer Panoramic Stereo amps and it is the most amazing amp I’ve ever heard. I can only imagine the vintage ones. Thanks, Brad!
Thanks Josh.
Nice video , love it , thanks for taking the time to record everything , this takes me back to the 60s when my dad would take me to the pawn shops in NYC , very nice , thanks again , Alfred NYC / Puerto Rico .
Awesome seeing the Garnet.. all the way from Winnipeg, Man. I was lucky enough to get to see Gar Gilles build when doing a work placement at Cam’s music back in the day. Pretty cool!
This makes me want to take you guys to my favorite guitar store. Coming soon! I just love REAL guitar shops.
Post a link here when you do!
I've owned both Hohner and Garnet amps. Garnet was made in Winnipeg Manitoba. Loved this vid Brad, cheers!!
Ben Coombs I worked for a small chain called Moeller Music in Ohio in the late 80’s.
They encouraged us to try and sell Hohners to kids coming in wanting Marshalls. Regardless of how they sounded, the 80’s Metal kids wanted something to make them look like Yngwie. The quality of the equipment was irrelevant to them.
Truly what the back room of a traditional Mom & Pop music shop from the 60s-80s should look like. Literally a treasure trove. It's an honor to be able to explore a vanishing world like this. You're very lucky to be a friend and have access. Buy anything you can! ;)
I love everything in this store...I would totally make a museum out if some of that stuff
I have a friend with a shop like this. I love digging around.
What a treasure! Some of those guitars and amps brought back memories of working on them and of old band mates that have since passed on. I agree with the comments about preserving businesses and places like these. Thanks for the privileged look inside, as well as the fun facts!
Thanks Brad, that was awesome. I know where I'm going first chance I get to get away a few days. Uncle Doug is going to be salivating over that National.
Oh my heart be still. We must have the same interior decorator.
one of the many hidden treasures in the Commonwealth!!! bought strings before many gigs in hendo/owensboro from there!!
That was great, Brad. A real education! You really know your stuff 👍
I could spend days goofing off in that store. Tuning/playing guitars and starting up tube amps with a variac ... Thank you Chris
Nope, the aluminum full pick guard shielding is 💯 original. Started in ‘61 iirc. Neat shop, I’d squirrel away in there all day too.
My May 1960 53271 has the original full original aluminium shielding under the scratch plate. Very interesting video, unfortunately my family music shop closed a few years ago it was McCormack' s in Glasgow.
loved this video man, i kept seeing things i wanted to buy, like that red epiphone 335 style hollow body in the back room.
I miss the old "Ma & Pa" guitar shops with the great guitars hanging in the window. Brings me back to days with nose pressed up against the window. Nicely done.
Thanks Brad, always a pleasure to show you our new (or old) treasures,thanks for the bump on the youtube channel,,,,enjoy the vintage strap
Those old Kays are really nice to play mmm'kay. ;) Good stuff Brad. Lotta cool stuff in there. I could spend all day in shops like that.
I used to love looking through my friends music store basement. He used to say I was the only whoever wanted to look in the cave since most things went there to disappear.
ctyragdoll that's where the fun is.
Thanks Brad! that was a nice tour!
I was stationed at Fort Campbell in the 101st airborne division from 2000- 2003, and i lived in oak grove Kentucky, and then moved to clarksville Tennessee, and I'm here to tell you that that whole area of the country from Nashville to the middle of Kentucky is literally a musical mecca, and these types of stores are EVERYWHERE! its been 20 yrs, and I drove through that area last year, and it has changed very little. if your into vintage instruments at all, you owe it to yourself to hit all the mom and pop stores out there, especially in the outskirts of Nashville, amazing things are still out there to be had! there are also TONS of small junkyards with tons of vintage 60's American muscle cars out there, that whole part of the country is a freaking time capsule! I daydream about living there again! I live in south east Idaho, and there is NOTHING like that store in the ENTIRE state lol. Thank you so much for making this video!
excellent!, thanks! 63 strat, i was drooling!
Ohhh, that lefty Strat!
Absolutely loved this. Never would see something like this where I live. We have a couple smaller music shops, but all this legacy gear in one place...never.
Never going to worry about the mess of guitars and amps at my place again after seeing that - fantastic!!
Oh man, the Jackson Dinky Reverse Granite!!! Loooove them
Yeah I was like OH SHIT then he said he was looking for a pickup for it. Yeah I bet he's looking really hard for that pickup. Hell these days there is probably a couple hundred fellas with multiples of those pickups.
How cool was that.. thank you great post ..
Fantastic, thanks so very much for taking the timw to put this tour together. That store owner is one of the coolest down to earth people ever. Most store owners wouldn't give you the time of day unless they were making money from a sale. I would work in that place for free, I would probably even pay for the experience. Regards from Ireland.
Yeah, he’s a gem of a guy.
Dang!!! That 63 is sweet!! The owner of this shop seems cool and a true instrument lover
A real music store. The green VCT patched tile floor transitioning to carpet💪🏼#flex!
My kind of "Candy" store ! Great video. Thanks so much.
More vids like this please
Wow, that place is awesome. Got to put that on the "have to visit list" for dang sure. So many goodies there !
And not one set of Bagpipes, Scotland is very upset ! love it !!!!
American pickers: Brad The Guitarologist Edition. You're loving it!
I like taking virtual tours of guitar stores!
Being from Canada and occasionally seeing Garnet amps around in the pawn shops or at our local vintage dealer's, I'm pleased to learn about the Stencil series. Good episode Brad & thanks once again for creating my favorite television show. -Dallas @~VT~
Same here! Learned something that trip!
I'm very jealous of that Charvel 750XL...great to see where you picked it up
Cant Thank You Enough for takin us along Brad!Had the best time watching your “Guitar Safari”!
No doubt, one of my all time favorites, Exciting Episode!
This video was beautiful, especially the part with the old strat. Makes me appreciate what I have just a bit more.
Love seeing the old vintage guitar and amps
There was a place in Terre Haute, Indiana that this reminds me of. "The Music Shoppe". I discovered them in the early 90's but an amazing amount of inventory. Every square inch was packed. They are still there as far as I know, but they now have less than half the inventory they did. But still pretty full.
I been there before, real great staff and they have a stellar collection of custom ordered G&L stuff, they really are great people and do have tons of gems hanging out everywhere.
Yep that's the kind of place I would like to get locked in great video Brad
Love that strobe/tuner. Had one in Jr. high. Best tuner ever!!!! Especially for doing intonation setups.
That National will be sweet once it’s restored! Can’t wait to see the vid.
Guitar guys do not like selling anything ! Great video ! Thanks
Great video Brad i could spend a few days in there
so many blast from the past .thanks.
While only a beginner guitar player starting out late in the game, (62) I've always had a love of the instrument and the music it produces. As someone with a technical background and interest, the guitars and equipment that are used to produce the music, both electric and
acoustic guitar, I am totally into a store like Abba's. It's a shrine and a museum to the music world. Some of those guitars are works of art. The old amps were & are technical wonders of their times. I'm going to be calling Mr Kruger soon to see if he may have some things I'd like. Very cool vid. Thanks for bringing it to You Tube! ✌🏻🇺🇸
Great video. Anyone out there remember Len's Guitar City in Minneapolis ( Bloomington ) Minnesota on Lyndale near 76th? .. It was an earlier time, he was well established in the 1960s.. All the bigger acts in Minnesota in the mid century got guitars from Len.. The entire block was wiped in re-development.. no trace exists. Please reply if you knew the place.
Jennifer WhiteWolf I’ve heard stories of Len’s and also Pete’s Guitars on University in Saint Paul. When Pete passed away in the 90’s he had a ton of old rock star guitars in the basement that didn’t have any authenticity certificates. A guy I knew years ago was commissioned to sell it all. He told me there was a P-Bass from AC/DC’s Cliff Williams with a pin-up girl inlay on the neck. Also a smashed Pete Townsend Ric guitar that was glued back together. He had many great stories... George Harrison and other legends used to stop at Pete’s during its day.
My first real Amp was a ZAK! This is the first time i have ever seen another one. i remember it had the added bonus of sending electricity through the strings when i plugged it in outside
Not so sure the _added bonus_ would quite suit me personally, lols.
Ted Tries Tech : Hence the name ZAK!
Thanks for the tour!
Awesome video as always brad & man that is ALOT of stuff he has !!
So this is like the car guys walking around the wrecked lots. Interesting vid
I have the 3 pickup version of that gold Telestar sitting in my closet. It's the same exact color.
Love to watch this Brad. Thanks for sharing.
I generally dont like background music in videos, however, this time, it is hauntingly appropriate.......very cool and so is the store. I would love to visit some time.