Why Is Walmart Blowing Out Guitars?
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Just don't buy a plastic Spiderman guitar and expect me to teach your kid.
My first guitar in 1966 was a Sears Silvertone acoustic “Western” guitar, and doubled as a bow for shooting arrows. 😀😀 The action was that high. I learned from a school friend who was very good. Then my parents rewarded me with a better guitar, a Yamaha 12 string. I played my sister’s hand me down clarinet in the school band, and discovered that the clarinet players weren’t getting the attention of the girls, and the guitar players were, so I got me a guitar. Performed with one group for about 47 years as well as other groups. I picked up playing banjo, ukulele, mandolin, dobro and bass.
I’m now a luthier and repair and build guitars, banjos, ukulele, and repair mandolins and the violin family.
I had the pants from sears with reinforced knees. You learn a lot about resilience growing up poor.
i didn't even have pants!
Mom had to patch me up. I think I have may even remember getting a second patch on the first patch.
I used to call those Steel-belted jeans. They wouldn't even be broke in by the time you grew out of them lol.
@@apod_det yeah, they would rub your knees raw... Yay Toughskins!
Tough Skins! Lol
Walmart absolutely IS actually selling guitars in-store.
I was just there and just saw a Cort and a Washburn electric in the electronics section.
I seen that as well! It was in Ardmore Oklahoma. They had a Cort acoustic guitar and a Washburn electric guitar. D'Addario strings, string winders, guitar stands, picks, and more. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. Lol!
Washburn??? Alright. Now i gotta go and see this for myself.
“The good old days of not wearing the right sneakers and clothes”
Yep
I didn't have many clothing options in high school. One day I wore brown socks to gym class. A jock made fun of me. I didn't want to lose face so I had to challenge him to a fight. He knocked me out with one punch. To this day I never wear brown socks.
Bell bottoms. Never had a pair until they were totally uncool, but being uncool or grunge wasn’t cool yet.
Walmart is not good with third party support. I bought a tool bench that was never delivered and was told that it was not their problem and to contact my bank
The guitars I saw on Walmart were the same Chinese sellers selling cheap guitars that are on Amazon at basically the same price.
yeah
Yes, same market segment.
So Eastmans???😮
@@rudals1281 Lol good one!
Indonesian guitars are somewhat well made. The Koreans are known for quality at sane prices. The Japanese are high quality at a premium.
I purchased my first acoustic guitar from the Spiegel catalog in 1966. It came as a kit, with a 33 1/3 small record with instructions, a string strap, a pick, and a blow-through tuner for $23. The strings were about a quarter inch above the frets, and my fingers blistered and bled from pushing them down. My folks bought a Monkey Wards Silvertone electric for me on the following Christmas. They wanted me to play a song for them on Christmas Eve, but they didn't know that you needed an amp to play it through. Both of the guitars were right-handed, and I am left-handed. I swapped the strings around and played them that way.
My first electric was a used Silvertone I got for $50 and “refinished” it metallic green a little darker than your Tele on the right. It would actually stay in tune pretty good and sounded half way decent. Ive had better ones since, but that one started me off in being a guitar player. Bought it in 1965 and still have it.
My first (acoustic) guitar came from Lucky’s Grocery store (in those days the store also sold sneakers, jewelry, perfume and record albums). My first brand new electric came from Sears.
Western Auto used to sell guitar 🎸 and bikes . K Mart sold everything and cashed paycheck s. I'm having an 80's moment. Was.
Haha!'yep, my mother dressed me in disco type clothes. Only problem was disco went out years before.
Thanks for the straightforward explanations, and the disclosures about your affiliations! Your openness around this is refreshing. We, the audience, really don't mind such things when they are disclosed and we feel like we are being levelled with... you're one of the best at it!
I used to get new guitars delivered to a company that was inside a Walmart. I had one bad experience where they had the Walmart employees receiving things for the Box Store which was not a Walmart department and the employees were messing around and opened the box and the guitar fell out and broke off one of the tuning pegs. I wasn't too happy about that.
Yes, those "kids" are too young remember that most of us bought our first guitars in the early '60's from places like Montgomery Wards. That was when your parents only made about $.75/hour and some guitars were $75 to $100.
My first guitar was Kingston violin/Beatle bass, that came from... Service Merchandise? Or maybe Ellmans.
But you get the idea. In retrospect, a Silvertone probably would have been better.
My first electric guitar was from k mart ….. the action was kind of high
Four years ago I was in Wallmart in Atlanta area which did have a guitar, drum, keyboard section. There were Les Pauls and Fenders physically in the store! Cartersville area, I think)
Had the same corduroys in 86 but mine were hand me downs in burgandy and tan. Good luck sneaking up on anyone in those. Couple those with flip flops and you're a one man band.
The Kmart clothes were not the problem, it was the Payless shoes! 😂
YES!!!! or the TRAXX blue runners for K-mart LOL
@@Distilled1 OMG yeah! The fake Adidas hahahaha
I had some cool Sonic the Hedgehog Payless shoes.
panama jacks....I got stuck with a pair of those and was destroyed at school..
You must be too young to remember BB Buddy shoes!😅
As a little kid in the 70's where I'm from, if another kid JUST SAID you wore BB Buddy's them was fighting words!!!
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Oh man. Can’t wait for the Great Value Strat. Lol.
LOL Isn't that basically the "starcaster" that's sold in walmarts in bigger cities?
How bout a Sam Walton Custom shop HSS Walcaster in yellow smileyfaceburst? Ha!
@@neilh9442 marked down from 99.99 to 94.99 haha
Sixty years ago you could order guitars and amps from Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs. Really cheap and tended to get made fun of. Guess what? Nowadays that same gear is the froody retro-cool Danelectros and Silvertones and Teiscos.
Oh those Teiscos! The one I played lead on back in the 60s was gold, looked like a cross between a Tele and a Les Paul, terribly high action, difficult to play, and sounded great! Our rhythm player used a Strat and I accused him of being a softy 😅
man i wore some plaid and cordoroy slacks in my day . i looked like a sofa had a fight with some drapes .
Indestructible cordoroy. You could never get rid of it : \
@@ShaylokAnd if you wore them for a long time, they began to look shiney. 😊
What's wrong with 70s corduroy pants?. I had a red pair, green pair and baby poop brown pair.
Ahh yes, the baby poop brown corduroys.
When you inevitably spill your bag of weed, on them… 😩
Just like in Seinfeld, I had the same problem. When I saw that episode, I FREEKEN lost it..😂😂😂.
"Running in to 3rd grade late. Catholic school in the 80s. Trying to be quick and quiet. With bell bottom corduroy pants!!"
I have had problems with third party sellers on Walmart’s site. The two problems are: 1) Failing to deliver the product while claiming that it was; and 2) Sending the wrong item. These problems are frequent with canned goods. Books, on the other hand, are reliably delivered to me, and I never get the wrong item.
I remember the battle of the baggy pants. If you didnt have JNCO or Tripp NYC, it wasn't baggy enough and you weren't cool. My parents weren't about to drop 50 bucks on a pair of pants so yep- corduroys here too, Phil.
I had a friend who, during this era, custom ordered 69" jeans. Not only did he intentionally do it to be crass, he looked absolutely ridiculous. He looked like he was wearing a huge floor length denim skirt
My mom cut hair at the mall, places like JC penny and Bon Ton. If it werent for her employee discount. And coupons, she would have never been able to afford the jncos. I remember her bragging about paying 20 bucks for 50$ pants and i would have been way less cool in the 90’s my favorite pair was bigger at each ankle than the waist
@@Ottophil my mom was, and still is, a bargain shopper. She's also a seamstress so she would refuse to buy more expensive clothes just for the name, not only for the price, but for substandard workmanship. There was a lot of shopping at K Mart, Factory 2 U, outlet stores, etc
Bought a Glarry thru Walmart for modding out. It had the option to return instore, FYI.
Walmart currently carries a Washburn strap style and a Martin acoustic on the shelves
They don't left you demo them. The local Walmart here only had a cheap Casio keyboard out for demo.
When i first started playing Walmart had an ok music section, and i went there because i didn't know any better. It's was all first act brand and the tuner i bought worked fine. I never bought a guitar from there but did but the formentioned tuner picks a strap and some strings, was it the best probably not but here we are 16 years later and that was the one little thing that got my foot in the guitar door. Remember people its not where you get it its what you do with it. And yes i exclusively still shop at thrift stores for all my clothes
ChuckTaylor's are timeless.
say you are a person who’s never touched a guitar in his life say they wanna play the guitar but can’t really afford to go to their music store and buy a fender takes you to Walmart you buy the cheapest representation of guitar. They have sit down start strumming it, and doing whatever you do to play it, and you have learned how to put your fingers on the thing where the frets are all the notes all the basics that you need to know before actually truly making a song out of your notes, a guitar is fine if you’re learning and want to really know if it’s something you wanna continue doing
that Black swirl painted guitar behind you looks COOL!
A kid on the middle school bus noticed the upside-down Nike' symbol, that was on my shoes. He yelled: "...Are those your K-mart discount shoes..!?! " And they were . We bought-there, to save money . Dad spent 20 years in the Marines ...
I saw guitars, straps, picks, strings, and capos while buying shirts in Walmart just last week.
my Brother bought a Guitar from a Walmart store years ago when they sold them in store. it turned out that it was a brand that Gibson sold under a different name. and still has it. it is black.
Maestro.......
I feel like you could return it to walmart. Not because it makes sense, but because in the clearance aisle at my local walmart, I've seen items that aren't sold through walmart. My only assumption is that those were returned from online orders.
Thanks for the explanation.
I gotten a few guitars from Walmart. A Fender/Squire and First Act. Then an Epiphone fro Target. They all play great. My Dean Jammer II came from SEARS
I don't know where to buy clothes. KMart went under.
Kohls, Make sure to get Kohls cash
Walmart came to our town and killed our KMart and a Shopko.
I bought a black First Act "P Bass" at Toys R' Us back in 2006. It was on clearance for around 70 dollars. It was a decent bass but the pickups died after a couple years. Still, I got my money's worth.
Wal-Mart, Shmall-Mart. Phill! I want that foam green Tele behind you! How much?!?!
Back in the seventies, here in the UK, my friend bought a guitar from Woolworths, it was around £20.00 or so, tele style and was not much more than a block of wood with strings but it was our first bands first guitar.
The make was Jedson and we would chuckle about it, we assumed it was a Woolworth brand and was one of those amusing things you eventually forget about, , , , , until almost fifty years later when I discovered David Gilmour had a Jedson lap steel guitar up for auction- I don’t know if it truly featured on any of the Floyds tracks, but if it did Mr Gilmour certainly made it sound better than my buddy’s Tele ! Just goes to show.
I’ve had a few first act guitars and a maestro by Gibson, they’re great mod platforms, I know what Philip McKnight is talking about, but the stuff they offer isn’t horrible for a kid just starting out or a person that wants to learn how to mod guitars with little upfront costs
Hell I grew up in the era of having your mom make your clothes from the design packets sold in Wal Mart,K Mart and others.
My mom made Halloween costumes from those packets. Made by hand and i still wanted the cheap vinyl costumes that came out of a box.
Now those 70’s clothes, even from KMart via Goodwill, would be worth a pretty penny.
Also, I think Cort guitars are good!
Lovely explanation. Great job.
We used to buy guitars and amps from Sears.
A Cort Strat and an acoustic on display in music section. Walmarts in Virginia and here in Louisiana.
Here in Tennessee too.
Our walmart just started selling cheap washburn electrics and D'Addario strings. I bought a few packs and gave them a chance and I was honestly shocked. They feel and sound way better than my usual super slinkys.
My Target ,Garden Grove. Ca is selling squires . They have one in the shelves. Not sure if they're in stock or if they have to ship em. My ladt 3 guitars were all Internet buys from sweetwater or Musicians Friends. Peace out
I was wearing courdoroy wranglers in 1986 too lol. Hand me downs from rich cousins.
Walmart doesn't take online orders as returns at physical stores. You have to return through the mail.
13 days late to the party 🥳🎉 DUDE!! When I moved to Oregon from Hawaii my first pair of tennis shoes were K-Mart brand called TRAX and I got teased for having "K-Mart specials"!! Damn Haole's!! Back In 1975! I'm good now ☺️ Peace 🕊️☮️♾️
I had a Teisco guitar in the mid 60s that my Mom got from Sears .
Teisco Del Ray....was my second guitar....My niece still has it...
I occasionally put the peanut butter in the fridge cause back in the day the government peanut butter would separate especially since A/C wasn't as common in the early eighties. I've seen Cort guitars in the stores. One of our Walmarts has a little music section in the electronics. diadario stings and picks capos guitar stand etc.
Yep corduroy in bell bottom pants in the seventies nice big collored slick shining nylon shirts. Waffle stompers Durango cowboy boots an Converse tennis shoes for gym class sn basketball team for those who can afford them. I wore Town & country tennis shoes. 12 string Stella acoustic. $70.00 used Japanese electric. Really used 1940ies ambassador trumpet for band. Oh and Levi blue jeans. Wranglers if you had to.
Never ordered a guitar from Walmart app. I have ordered tires from it . They shipped them to Walmart . Then Walmart installed them .
I wore tough skins with knee pads and elbow pads and the shirt was fire resistant....and Keds shoes..... But I had a Martin guitar as well as a fender strat.... This was the 70's ..I sold everything even my Colt nine shot revolver to Alabama 😎 These days I have a $75.00 Epiphone SL. but I am happy 😊😁.
We joke at my shop about "Zombie Bucks".
Ah,those cheap weird brand-names with the action so high a Navy Seal could crawl underneath the strings without touching one.😂
Is it really that different from Sears catalog guitars back in the day?
when you return an item to walmart and it's from an affiliate, they charge you a fee
Well you arent the only one to grow up with goodwill clothes. I did. My kids did. My youngest, now 25, was showing off his "new" goodwill blue sportjacket the other day. And I love cheap guitars.
I personally am an "Amazon Book Seller." I advertise the books that I have for sale on their website. When someone purchases one of my books, I receive notification and ship it that day or the next. I ship good condition, clean product, right away in good packaging so that the customer promptly receives a nice order and I maintain my 5 star "Seller Rating!"
I was a cashier at a "brick & mortar "Super Target." We separated ourselves from Walmart by providing SUPERB service to our "Guests." This included the return process. Folks knew that they could ALWAYS return ANYTHING to ANY of our locations, no matter what, HASSLE-FREE. I don't think that Walmart is this progressive.
funny thing is k mart clothes are considered high fashion now, just look at champion.
That’s because of Kpop.
Apparently Koreans didn’t know Champion was a poor person’s brand.
Hi Phillip. I've been following you for, seems like decades now. I love these "shorties"! BTW: Whats that Tele behind you, with the matching color peghead? And, what is that color called? ("cause I want one!)
That’s a G&L ASAT (deluxe?). I don’t know if what the color is.
@@MrPhotonjockey Thanks! I believe you are referring to the one over Phillip's right shoulder, which definitely has the G&L headstock shape.. I am actually referring to the one which is down to Phillip's left side, which is mos' def' a Fender Tele. Sorry, I should have been more clear.
A few years back I walked into a Best Buy and saw a Schecter Damien Elite-7 with proper EMG's for $199 CAD (around $145 USD). I never owned a 7 string, so I bought it on the spot, had fun with it for a year and flipped it for $350. The next guy also thought he got a killer deal.
I grew up in a small town in the 70s and 80s and no one had a lot of money, so fashionable clothes in school were never a thing. We went along with trends a little bit, but I don't remember anyone's wardrobe being commented on because of cost or fashion. We were a mellow bunch of kids.
It is kind of convoluted.
I bought something from Walmart but it ended up coming from Amazon.
Some products you can return to Walmart.
Others you can't.
Amazon makes it very clear while Walmart does not.
I prefer to order from Amazon now where I can return anything to my local Wholefoods.
I'm Gen-X nothing was as bad as Tough-Skin Blue Jeans from K-Mart & Sears !! So humiliating but once they were broken in they lasted a long time !!! If I wore a hole in the knee mom would just use her Iron and bake another one on and it would be dark blue while the jeans had faded everywhere else LOL . Ah the 70's & 80's !!!
Walmart needs to figure some things out. I've received a number of packages sent directly to my residential address that were walmart returns. I imagine they are from the program you speak of and not actually walmart items rather 3rd party. I've spoken to their customer service kindly and not so kindly about this mess. Hope they figure it out soon.
Thanks for preferring Sweetwater. My friend and I have purchased from every provider imaginable (Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Musician's Friend, and many that are now defunct). We also prefer Sweetwater because they treat their customers better. By the way, I still wear clothes from thrift stores.
Sears Toughskins and KMart Trax FTW!
So in the 1980s you were dressed like Travolta in Saturday Night Fever...
I still jam on a Cort guitar wearing my buddies😂
Kings and Kmart. LOL
My mom would get me the K-mart socks 4pak. Black, brown, blue & red. I hated em after a month
You can return to Walmart Store.... But your credit is not given until it is received by the Vendor it shipped from. The Review of the Peavey Guitar on my channel was from Walmart.... But a miss drilled neck made me return to Walmart... Thanks ! ! ! love the channel
My brother got his first electric guitar and amp from the pawn shop, so ....
Did we answer the premise of Why?
The band Was Not Was had a song called "In Kmart Wardrobe", takes me back...
the woodwork squeaks, and “Out Come The Freaks!”
That which befalls unto people, people bring unto themselves.
Walmart will eventually screw Guitar Center out of business
Guitar center is doing a good enough job at failing on their own.
Just saw that Musicians Friend is selling on Reverb.
You get Kohl's cash on any clothes you buy from there, and it's a 1:1 dollar amount. So if you buy a lot of Kohl's clothing, you inevitably get a lot of Kohl's cash, which flips into more clothes. It's a way they can keep you in their ecosystem. It's stupid because when you think about it, it's not free. The clothes have to be overpriced originally for this model to work. The consumer just likes feeling like they're getting something for free.
Love your show,podcast . I actually did the Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro, upgrades you did I think in Episode 5, to my Koa Epi. But I digress. Being probably about the same age I say to you brother. I miss corduroy pants. How dare you. LOL JUST MESSING WITH YOU. ROCK ON JIM R
They made fun of my skateboard. I don't remember walmart back then though it might have been from K mart
You’ve previously mentioned the sacrifice your mum made to get you your first guitar. 10 year old Kmart clothes reinforce that truth. You survived the shit heads and are clearly grateful for her sacrifice. 🤘🤓🤘
I was the youngest of seven (7) people in our family. I NEVER received NEW clothes, ONLY "Hand-me-downs." 😖
The worst part was when I received hand-me-downs from my SISTER. I not only wore K-Mart "Traxx" gym shoes, I wore GIRL'S K-Mart "Traxx" gym shoes! Do you think that I was picked on much about that? 🤔
They own the Chibson factory
Corduroy pants go Vip, Vip, Vip!!
Guitar Center = the KMart of music dealers
Id buy a less paul there.
Bicycle snobs are the same way .
What's next? Baby clothes from Guitar Center?
Kohls is drop off for Amazon
Walmart sells guitars??? Not anywhere I’ve ever lived.
Online Walmart
They've sold them on their website for years. There was one black Friday maybe 10-15 years ago they had Fender in store just for the black Friday sale
Go to the music section in the rear of store.
I wouldn't buy a guitar from Amazon or Walmart. I'll go to the little guy or Sweetwater. That's it.
It’s not from Walmart, it’s independent sellers like on Amazon.
@@powbobs that's not my point. I'll buy local, or I'll go with Sweetwater, which I trust.
Walmart now functions as a platform. Many items are available from third parties who are on Walmart’s platform.
Yeah, you totally lost the thread -- but it's all good since you'd already covered pretty much everything. The rest of it was entertaining, even if you misspoke a bit and tried to recover. Your membership in the human race is intact and in good standing.
They actually sell guitars in stores as well