Guitar Store Owner Shows Me His PRIVATE HOARD!
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- 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!!!
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!
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.
Hey brad . This is great , thanks for the treat . Also thanks to the store owner for allowing it . Seems a cool guy.
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?
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.
Thanks to Chris and the guys for letting us see "stuff we all don't need,but HAVE to look at...".
I could watch this for hours....thanks Brad!!
I was just about to leave the exact same comment.
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!
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.
These old mom & pop stores are a national treasure, killer video, thanks !
Thanks Brad for the road trip and blast from the past,Cheers
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!
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.
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’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.
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
This was lots of fun!🙂. I spent my whole Friday Nite on your channel. Thank you so much!
You are so welcome!
Been a long time since I've been to Abba's. Drove right by there yesterday on my way back to Louisville...
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
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.
How fun..you're right...just like treasure hunt. Thanks for taking us along Brad!
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!
I would declare that guitar store a museum and should be protected and preserved. I'm green with envy as we don't have these kind of stores in Australia. I remember going into Denmark at in London and what an experience,so many old guitar stores side by side, I spent most of the day there, that was my sight seeing tour.
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.
Imagine being a topgun luthier with plenty of time to spare. I'd be knocking on Chris's door and looking forward to a decade of pure workday bliss.
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.
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! ;)
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!
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.
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.
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
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 .
This why I love USA man... here in India you can never come across a pawn/shop like this... I've been playing guitar since age 13 and this like a dream to go through so many beautiful guitars... All these guitars have a story to tell.
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.
These local shops keep music Alive . As a kid I would walk past window and dream of the opportunity . These places sell dreams 👍
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.
Wow, what a cool place. Not too many shops like this left- I bet I know what it smells like. Holy inventory.
I like taking virtual tours of guitar stores!
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!!!
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!
21:24 “I’m waiting for the market to crash to buy it...”
So I’m going to say that is now...
Thank you Brad, for reminding me of my hometown music stores. I am from Wichita Falls Tx. but I now live in Henderson. I have never been in the back of Abba before but I now plan to ask Chris if I can go back and look around.
Say hi to him for me. Hope he’s doing well.
I will dream of going guitar shopping because of 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.
one of the many hidden treasures in the Commonwealth!!! bought strings before many gigs in hendo/owensboro from there!!
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.
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!
I got 10 mins into this and had to post.....THAT Guitar shop is a wet dream to a Guitar player...now i will watch the rest.....peace.
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.
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 .
I love everything in this store...I would totally make a museum out if some of that stuff
so many blast from the past .thanks.
I have a friend with a shop like this. I love digging around.
Holy damn christ how the dude just casually flipped open the case containing a '63 strat, like it was nothing special :D The world is in dire need of more stores like this.
Oh my heart be still. We must have the same interior decorator.
Great time watching, Thanks!!✌
Peace*
excellent!, thanks! 63 strat, i was drooling!
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!
Wow, that place is awesome. Got to put that on the "have to visit list" for dang sure. So many goodies there !
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.
Thanks Brad! that was a nice tour!
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!
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! ✌🏻🇺🇸
And not one set of Bagpipes, Scotland is very upset ! love it !!!!
I’m from the Henderson area and Abbas is where I bought my first acoustic and electric Guitars ! I have been following you for some time now and saw you were in Henderson and it blew my mind great video !
Small world.
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.
Super cool, Brad !
I'm very jealous of that Charvel 750XL...great to see where you picked it up
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.
American pickers: Brad The Guitarologist Edition. You're loving it!
That was great, Brad. A real education! You really know your stuff 👍
Guitar guys do not like selling anything ! Great video ! Thanks
That National will be sweet once it’s restored! Can’t wait to see the vid.
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 wish i lived in america sometimes , yall have so much history and music is entrenched in everything and everywhere. i like these tours man cool stuff.
I lived a block away from the Black Diamond string Factory in New Brunswick New Jersey and when they dismantled the building to put condos in I got all the flooring out of the building it was a shiplap 3/4 inch 10 10 in flooring and inside all the grooves were hundreds and hundreds of tiny ball ends that I saved for what reason I do not know after the wood was sanded it was probably the most beautiful would I have ever seen there was something about it chances are it was probably 500 year old wood when you consider the age of the building and the old growth Timber that it was taken from don't quote me though.
zorroon milkavitch Great story! I bet you're right about the age of that wood.
Fascinating! I grew up near there in Owensboro, KY. I took guitar lessons downtown Owensboro when I was 13 and 14. around 1969. Was always driving near Henderson.
Brad, thanks for the video! I love treasure hunts like this and it it is getting harder to find these places that have not been taken over by younger owners that think they can get rich by selling off everything on the interweb. I like finding things like we saw and using my time and effort to bring them back to life again.
My first guitar came from a similar store in Rossville Ga called Charles Chambers Music and Golf, now long gone. From the front door there was a path cut through stacks of amps and guitars sometimes 2 or 3 deep on either side of you. Lots of old Mosrites, Gretsch, acoustics, cheapos, glass cases with all sorts of effects. And a big section of used golf clubs in the back corner. Glad to know a few of these places with some character are still hanging on.
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!
One of the best videos I have seen in a while. Very enjoyable, Brad !
63 Strat shielding was not added, was a factory standard back in the day, and should be repetitively ink stamped "Alcoa".
Yes,and the nitro-cellulose guard shrinks, but the aluminum shield doesn't.
G Morgan, didn't know the pic guards shrink. Do you know when they changed the pic guards from nitro-cellulose?
They started switching over to abs vinyl in the mid to late 60's and totally by the 70's once all of the leftover nitro cellulose stock was depleted. btw... California EPA also had a hand in this, like banning nitro lacquer finishes in 78, and that's another story.
@@theonewease , ah really interesting , was wondering because my 68 strat has no problems with the pic guard. So what you say, makes sense. Mine must be abs vinyl.
super cool video. there used to be alot of cool music stores in my area. I used to scrounge through their stuff.
Man I miss stores like this!
Our big box guitar store up here in Canada (Long&Mcquade) bought up most of the mom'n'pop shops or eventually put them out of business. There still are some small town stores close by but my favorite and most visited ones are long gone.
Bud you need to go back an do this now if he still open after Covid I hope he is I’d love to move there n work for him n learn from him what a blessing it would be thanks again for sharing still gold
Ohhh, that lefty Strat!
I had no idea this was even there! I did a show in Henderson last year and the people there were super nice. Great crowd even in the rain!
Now you know! And yes, great music town. Annual FREE bluegrass and blues festivals!
How cool was that.. thank you great post ..
Never going to worry about the mess of guitars and amps at my place again after seeing that - fantastic!!
The Newporter with the funky tuners sounded damn good!
Evan Ward yes it did.
Thanks for a totally enjoyable trip and tour!! SUPER!!
INteresting fact: Ditson invented the Dreadnought in 1916 and hired Martin to build them. Martin bought out Ditson during the Great Depression and started producing Martin Dreadnoughts in 1931. I had an entire video on this on my channel but Martin had it banned and YT deleted it !
DB Cisco why on earth would Martin object?
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.