I'll be in Memphis tomarrow looking for cheep gutiar equipment. I'm going to try to hit every gutiar shop in town, and a ton of pawn shops. later I'm most likely going to go eat BBQ on Beale Street.
If anyone wants in, drop me a line.
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I'll be in Memphis tomarrow looking for cheep gutiar equipment. I'm going to try to hit every gutiar shop in town, and a ton of pawn shops. later I'm most likely going to go eat BBQ on Beale Street.
If anyone wants in, drop me a line.
See, thats another thing America has that shits on Australia. Its so hard to find decent instruments or amps at pawn shops here.
It isn't exactly a cavern of treasure here either. Its normal to find nothing but shitty korean squiers in one city. It was like that in tupelo last time I was there. I'm hoping to get lucky.
So no takers hu?
A few more details about the trip. I'm going to use an old Digital HiNote Ultra II as a navigation computer. I've got street Atlas on it with an old GPS device. Together, you can combine these things to make a poor mans gps naviation system. To set up way points I used google's local search. I typed in what I want to look at, then put in the address it gives me. For those of you considering using an old laptop for something like this, it is good to use the google local's map feature to match what your laptop says to what the internet says. The bad thing about the old street atlas, is well, its old. It isn't always right. So you can save yourself a whole lot of frustration if you get these sorts of things sorted out ahead of time.
Anyway, wish me luck. Maybe I'll find a Mashall 100 Watt super Lead, or an Orange head. :lol:
This is the one and only reason why I hate eBay. Back in the day, you could still find hidden treasures, but eBay has screwed all that up. When I still lived in Louisiana I used to check out this pawn shop that was right in the middle of the hood. I ALWAYS walked out with something good, my best haul was a '73 Mustang and a Fender Princeton for $150. A week later my best friend went in and grabbed an entire box of original EH pedals for 30 bucks. The original Big Muff, Small Stone, Bad Stone (the one with the melted face silkscreened on top) a Hot Tubes, and the freaking POG. Needless to say, I was fucking jealous.
Good luck, post some pics if you score some good shit.
Pawn shops suck balls now. There's never anything worth buying.
BBQ? Charles Vergos Rendezvous ftw.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
Best. Ribs. Ever.
As in Digital Equipment? That is an old computer. What is that, a 486?Quote:
I'm going to use an old Digital HiNote Ultra II as a navigation computer.
OH MY GOD, THAT CUNT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jed
I found a cool alesis drum machine in a pawn shop in south texas.
Its possible to find good stuff. Just unlikley.
Trip blew up in my face. I was up till 4 am putting in way points on the computer. I didn't get much sleep and didn't leave the house at 7 like I planned. I was going to put on new Alt Belts, but the damn alt bracket wouldn't move in. So after a late start I had to go by a fixit place and have them do it. My sister has been using the car this year and has ran the car so much that the belts sounded like a pig raping another pig. Sufice to say, I did not want to get off in Memphis with something like that. Getting that fixed cost me 1.5 hours and $57.
Oh but the really good part, the fucking plug on the gps just up and died five minutes outside of memphis. That killed a big part of the trip.
I salvaged some of it and still went a few places.
Like http://www.stringsandthings.com/musicmall/Default.htm and http://www.gibsonshowcase.com/bealestreet/
We still went to bealestreet and ate BBQ and all that. I went to one pawn shop and it was shit. They wanted $200 for a very HOT pedal box. Am I really supose to believe that someone pawned their pedal case with all the pedals and hook ups on it? I think we all know that got boosted out of the back of some poor kid's old van.
I am really tired of pawn shops that think to highly of their shit. No sir, I will not give you $40 for a dunlap crybaby, and no sir, I will not give you $20 for your shitty used xbox games.
I've always been curious as to what I could get in a pawn shop. I ventured into one, but there was so much over priced crap it was hard to navigate. I agree with everyone, pawn shops think they ARE the burger king.
Ok, pawn shop in town has a japanese strat, for 200. Its probably a fair price considering the tremolo alone is rare and sells for over 100 on ebay.
Does anyone have any ideas other than theift and legal ways of making money of getting this guitar. You know, like finding some dvds for $2 and trading them in on the guitar?
You could get a job.
You first.