| Author | Message | ||
| sparechaynge
Junior Username: sparechaynge Post Number: 17 Registered: 6-2010 |
Hello all, I am going to be in Pasadena for about a week in August, and I am interested in visiting some cool guitar/music stores and pawnshops while I am there. They don't necessarily have to be Alembic dealers, but that would be a plus. Any suggestions? (Message edited by Sparechaynge on July 19, 2011) | ||
| sparechaynge
Junior Username: sparechaynge Post Number: 18 Registered: 6-2010 |
Hello all, I am going to be in Pasadena for about a week in August, and I am interested in visiting some cool guitar/music stores and pawnshops while I am there. They don't necessarily have to be Alembic dealers, but that would be a plus. Any suggestions? (Message edited by Sparechaynge on July 19, 2011) | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1934 Registered: 5-2009 |
If you like you can go to the Hollywood Guitar and look in the Vintage section and check out the Alembic Series I Scorpion Bass , I did back in May 2009 . I think it might still be there. | ||
| cje
Member Username: cje Post Number: 80 Registered: 5-2009 |
Calabasas is somewhat near Pasadena, right? ;-) | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1935 Registered: 5-2009 |
In my post #1934 above , I should have written " Hollywood Guitar Center" instead of just "Hollywood Guitar" . | ||
| jseitang
Advanced Member Username: jseitang Post Number: 305 Registered: 6-2002 |
ha! i would of love to meet up.... im from pasadena, grew up there, but live in nyc now go to pasadena guitar 27 North Mentor Avenue Pasadena, CA 91106 (626) 405-2999 | ||
| oddmetersam
Intermediate Member Username: oddmetersam Post Number: 152 Registered: 7-2008 |
I grew up in Altadena/Pasadena; went to Eliot Jr. and John Muir Sr. High schools. Got my very first bass ('72 Fender Jazz) brand new from the original Guitar Center in Hollywood for HS graduation. The GC store is now much bigger; go during the week to avoid the crush and din! Mesa Boogie also has a store in HollyW on Sunset Blvd. In 'Dena, check out Old Town on Colorado Blvd. for cool bistros and speakeasy stuff; Lucky Baldwin's now has two locations for serious Trappiste Belgian Ales. Crown City pawn shop may have some stuff to check out; especially efx pedals. Finally, if you get a chance go up to Mt. Wilson and check out the vista of the LA basin! Have a great time. | ||
| jseitang
Advanced Member Username: jseitang Post Number: 306 Registered: 6-2002 |
dont forget poobahs's although its not on walnut, its still around! on colorado by the guitar center | ||
| sparechaynge
Junior Username: sparechaynge Post Number: 19 Registered: 6-2010 |
Thanks a lot everyone! Please keep 'em coming, because I have no idea what I will be able to visit while I am there, it's only a week's stay. jseitang, I wouldn't be able to meet with you anyway because I'll be working almost the whole time I am there. Of course my only visit to the west is business and I can't do all the fun stuff, but I'm going to make the most of it. | ||
| jseitang
Advanced Member Username: jseitang Post Number: 307 Registered: 6-2002 |
you live in ct? where?? | ||
| sparechaynge
Junior Username: sparechaynge Post Number: 20 Registered: 6-2010 |
Along the shore, almost due south of Middletown. | ||
| hb3
Senior Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 627 Registered: 2-2005 |
Oddmetersam, I'm just a few blocks up from Eliot. You went to Muir? Did you carry a shiv? | ||
| oddmetersam
Intermediate Member Username: oddmetersam Post Number: 153 Registered: 7-2008 |
Hey, Hugh I had to look up "shiv" in a slang dictionary. If you've seen pictures of me, do I look like I'd have carried a shiv back in 1972? Let me rephrase that...Seriously, I don't know what Muir is like now (though since I left someone decided to make what was the front of the school on Lincoln Ave. the BACK of the school for some reason). I don't know how old you are or if you lived in that area back then, but the there was no gang violence (cuz' there were no gangs -- and we thought gangs meant singing and choreographed dancing like in "West Side Story"), no campus security checkpoints, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, electronic gates or anything else back in those days. We had great teachers AND parents who really cared about our education. Needless to say, if no one carried knives they certainly wouldn't even dream of carrying firearms. David Lee Roth was (nominally!) a student at Muir. Some fuzzy-brained, drug-addled friends claim that he sat in with one of my crappy bands back then, but I don't remember that! While I was there Muir switched athletic leagues from Foothill to Pacific (or vice versa). Film producer Ron Howard, who back then was just known as Opie from the Andy Griffiths show, went to Burroughs HS and some of us saw him when we went there for a track meet. More specific to your question, this was largely an age of innocence among the students. Muir was the most racially integrated of the schools; we were probably feared (if that's even the proper word) to some degree because that's just how things are. If kids' minds aren't poisoned by their parents on socio-political issues, they are much more open to the world. Having said that, we ALL thought Compton, Centennial, Crenshaw, Lincloln, et al. were the rowdy schools and we were deathly afraid of them! | ||
| hb3
Senior Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 628 Registered: 2-2005 |
That's pretty funny. Yeah, Muir is considered really rough now. |
