Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    
    	Well the reason I started this topic, is because I finally had
    a good experience with a music shop. I went into E.G. Wurlitzer's(SP)
    in Framingham, the new shop, across from rock-a-mania records, with
    a friend of mine. He is a guitarist, and was looking for a effect.
    I myself , as always was looking for a bargain. While I was looking
    through the cymbals, Mark was getting help from one of the
    salespersons. I don't know his name, but he was alot of help. Mark
    wanted to sample a bunch of effects. The saleperson took 6 out of
    the cabniet, and let him use them. Mark them told the salesperson
    he had a Gibson, and a fender amp. The salesperson went over to
    the wall grabbed an S.G. and hooked all the effects through a fender
    70 watts amp. He then showed Mark what each effect did, and ended
    up making a sale. He put a good half hour into the sale!!! Most
    important of all, he knew what he was talking about. I watched alot
    of his demonstration, he was a good guitarist to boot!! The 
    salesperson was a guy about 23 long hair and a really cool dude.
    
    	I Usually go to Jack's drum shop for my needs, but found the
    prices here no to bad, cymbals especially! I highly recommend the
    shop, even though I still cannot pronounce it!!?!? 
    
    	Pro's
    	-----
    Good salespersons
    Decent prices, on most items.
    Better than going to Boston, for me anyway!
    Good selection.
    
    	Con's
    	-----
    Nothing is directly priced, you have to ask for a price on most
    items in the store. You ask someone, and they look it up on a list.
    
    	
    					F.M.
    
    	P.S. Mark bought a Programmable Distortion for 109.00
    
    			Guitarists is this a decent price??

    I put in my vote for Wurlitzers in Portsmouth, NH.
    
    Stevie has made a few major purchases there, and they are always
    really nice and patient.  I mean, he gets a little outrageous
    sometimes, I must admit.  He'll look at something once a month for
    a year (trying it out about every other time) before he buys it.
    The guy (Jim) has always been great about it, letting him choose
    his own guitars to try effects with (new Jacksons, ESPs, etc) without
    even flinching.  The prices are good and they aren't jerks like
    the Boston people.  This store is a lot more laid back, being NH
    and all, and they run it completely differently.
    
    If anyone checks it out, tell Jim we said hi.
                    
    Stacie

    
    
    	Give my local Record shop a plug??  Sure,
    
    		L I S T E N
    
    	Best record shop in READING, ENGLAND.  Good stock of HM CD's
    at reasonable prices.  Only bad point is that they are usually about
    a month after London gets them.
    
    		S H A D E S
    
    	In London.  Specialist HM record shop.  Just about everthing
    you could ever want.  CD's a bit pricey.
    
    	TTFN,
    		The MoshDuck.

    
    	Strawberries (in Shrewsbury, anyways) had a "sidewalk sale"
    	going on last night when I got there ... a whole bunch of
    	records for $1, and CD's for $7.  I didn't buy any CD's,
    	but I got 4 records ... watch this conference for a few
    	new notes.
    
                                                       GTI
    

    
        Reckless Records, Soho, London
    
    	In the next street from SHADES, second hand records only,
        great Heavy Metal section including rarities
    
    	/Speedking

Dunno how convenient this is for many of you, but a good record store to shop 
in is Disc Diggers in Somerville, in Davis Square. I went there this past 
Saturday, and picked up these:

Gary Moore - Corridors of Power CD
Yes - Big Generator CD
Tommy Conwell - Rumble CD
Little America - Fairground CD
Blue Murder - LP
Testament - LP (not the new one, the previous one)
Squeeze - Babylon and On LP (no comments!)

Anyways, the total for all of the above was under $20! Each of the albums was 
$.99 (in new condition) and none of the CDs were over $3.99. They had some CDs
as cheap as $.99 and $1.99!!!

cat

    
    	Are the CD's new or used?
    
    							GTI
    

> Are the CD's new or used?

Used. But can you hear the difference???  Sounds the same to me!  8^)

cat

    Well, I'm not writing to rate a music shop, but this seems like the
    best place to put this.  I was in Caldors in Chelmsford last night and
    they have MANY LP's on sale for $1.99 and $2.99.  Most were kind of
    YUCH, but they had some Black Sabbath w/Dio, Zebra, a lot of Twisted
    Sister, and a few other rockers.  It may not be worth going out of your
    way for, but if you're n the area anyway, you may find something you've
    been looking for.
    
    Chris D.

    
    I couldn't find anything in here for this topic so if this is in the
    wrong place, Mr. Moderator, go ahead and move it to the right place...
    
    
    Strawberries has started a new thing called Developing Artist
    Spotlight, Buy It and Try It.  Your new music is guarnteed at
    Strawberries.  But it...Try it... and if you are not completely
    satisfied, return it within 7 days for a full merchandise credit on any
    future purchase.  Offer good on 10 featured Music future titles.
    
    There are several new bands in there that I'm interested in.....
    Ya ought to try it out................
    
    
    
    -Tunes-

    
    	This isn't in line with topic but...
    
    	Someone (Tim Fennel) once mengtioned a place called Pure Pop
    	Records in Burlington, VT, does it still exist?
    
    	Thanks,
    	- Jim

It was there last time I went.  It's on the corner of South Winooski Ave and
College Street.  Diagonally across from the Nikelodeon theaters.  You go down
the stairs since the store is below sidewalk level...

Tim