If you're in Johnson City, check out this awesome shop. Maybe the guitar is in there, maybe it's not...lol albertspawn.com/alberts-pawn-johnson-city/

That "no more guitars" thing really didn't age well

Hi Tyler, thanks so much for visiting our store. Come see us next time you’re in JC ✌️😍

That's not a pawn shop but a really great vintage guitar shop that sells other stuff as well.

I found a Japanese Aria Pro ii LP style guitar from the 70s in a pawn shop for $100. It was so dirty and needed some TLC. Once I cleaned it, it became so beautiful and is now my favorite guitar that I own. So there are indeed gems that can be found in pawn shops.

That was actually very wholesome when he realised you were filming and he even apologised. Nice guy.

There were many gems in that shop. At a glance it looked like you were just in a guitar shop. Absolutely wild! And that guy being fairly knowledgeable was cool too.

My Strat was a junk shop find. The original owner bought it and never played it was stuck at the back of a cupboard, in the box, for over 20 years. It still had tissue around it. I paid a couple of hundred bucks for it, about 30 years ago, and it's been gigged ever since. One of the greatest bargains of my life!

No way! This is in my backyard and those guys are great people too! The guy you’re talking to is a great wealth of knowledge too! So glad you stopped by our area!

"You mind if I plug into this Marshall over here?" "We've also got this Kemper hooked up." "Oh, even better." Said no one ever...

Because thats all you'll ever need. Guns, Gold and Guitars. I so want a gibson lp jr

Went to the pawn shop on lunch today. Previously bought an Orangewood acoustic guitar and Tobias Bass there, but picked up a nice MIDI keyboard today.

tylers really been going crazy with these cinematic shots

5:32 That was smooth

That was the nicest pawn shop I've ever seen. The displays were amazing. Thanks for taking us on the journey. Peace

Love the simplicity of the Junior

As a lefty, I've seen more left handed guitars in pawn shops than in actual guitar stores. Is there a "Kick me universe!" sign on my back? lol.

Dudes camera work is immaculate

Its a must for me to check out the local guitar store where ever I take a vacation. I will have to include the local pawn shop now.

Pretty this exact guitar was my first guitar that my grandpa gave to me. Hasnt been touched in a very long time but its ao beautiful just to look at everytime i walk past it.

I do like the idea of the guitar shop licks..... Might be a competition there Tyler!? Must be original and categorised by starter, medium and rock star proficiencies...

In the early 2000's I was working at the EXIDE BATTERY'S Plant in BRISTOL we would go down to Johnson City to eat and there was a indoor go-kart track. In a old LOWES building. And a NASCAR Cafe across the way. Good times. I love TN. I'm from Alabama/Goregia line. Phenix city Alabama/Columbus Georgia. CHATTAHOOCHEE River separates the states here!!!

My pawnshop gem was an early 90s Boss DS-1 made in Japan.

A pawn shop with a Two Rock and Divided by 13....and some sweet vintage fiddles??? Where is this gem??

Great video. I have visited Johnson City too many time to count. That was the closest place to my home town in Virginia that had a concert venue, Freedom Hall Civic Center was a massive part of youth. Thanks for the video.

Best pawn shop find was a Peavey Invective 412 at a Pawn America last year for 250 plus tax. Apparently the head sold immediately but the cab sat for months and months. Has the correct v30s and cream backs in it. Bananas!

That Guns Gold and Guitars sign is also in a pawn shop in West Seattle Best pawn shops are near casinos.

OMG - that sound and tone when you first plug in at 2:10 is the most lush thiing I have ever heard. It took all of 2 seconds for me to think - you MUST buy this guitar.

Everyone needs a Junior!! Junior Is Win!!

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one asking for pics in guitar stores😂😂😂

Great video Tyler! Camera angles are 🔥🔥🔥

What a beautiful town and yes that’s an awesome find!

That Jr was sweet, and your playing did it justice. The pick just had to follow you home! Thanks for the fine video.

Seeing the Johnson City sign in your intro made me think I clicked on the wrong video, lol. I live about 15 mins away and never would have thought you'd make a trip through JC! Hopefully next time you're through I might be able to bump into you and say hello! Thanks for showcasing a little bit of our little city!

I got a 89 JEM VSK at a pawn shop in South Dakota. 11 of them are known about in the world and they were never on the retail market. Pawn shops used to be awesome!

Great video, keep 'em coming...❤

I was just in there a week ago. Love that you were in the area. Next time go in morrells great guitar store. Cheers

Only in Tennessee could you find a pawn shop with a Two-Rock amp, a Kemper, and a 54 Gibson....ridiculous. I've seen some good stuff in various pawnshops from time to time, but this one takes the Nashville cake.

You’re a really good guitar player and your videos are cool. I like them.

You’re such a nice guy. They really appreciated your company

I love that guitar. Great videos man 👍🤘

I have been so interested in one of these!

got to admit watching you play makes more more want to learn my guitar

guns gold guitars sounds like a store you need to go into, as a south african, seeing a sign like that is wild

There's a special kinda feeling that comes to ya when you find a diamond in the ruff in a pawn shop. I search them regularly for guitars. The best I purchased for $100 bucks is a late 70's Fanning acoustic guitar. Based on a Martin,inlays like a LP and plays like a 70's Yamaha. Superb and growly sounding the way I like acoustics to play. Your accidental dream guitar is there at some pawn shop in the middle of nowhere. LoudLove

oh BTW, the guy at Strings that handles the authentication is Mark "Mo" Holmes. He's a rad dude. One of the nicest & sharpest guys around. I wanted to call him out.

What a fantastic video!

I said no more guitars when I was up to 10. Today I'm at 65, and I'm still in no more guitar mode. Working like a charm for me. That Jr for 8500 seemed like a sweet deal, but then I really know a lot of NOTHING about guitars that old. It sounded awesome, as did the Strat

You were right in my backyard if that's downtown johnson city. Great little city to go find cool stuff

man that thing sounds absolutely rad

I live in the next town over, have been to that shop many times. Buy a lot of stuff, and have all my guitars worked on across the street at Morrells across the street! The IBMA guitar player of the year 2023 is from a town right down the road from Johnson City. Lots of good musicians from our area.

I once found a Gibson Maurader at a pawn shop. Its one of my go-to places for equipment shopping. Got a barley used Crybaby Wah oedal for like 10 bucks at a pawn shop once. The only thing "wrong" with it was some discoloring on the switch itself. Pretty good considering even used ones can be almost 90 bucks.

Not only do you have guitar skills, your video is fun, informative and so well shot. I thought you must have had a cameraman with you! Our son Zach enjoyed meeting you.Come back next time you're in town.

back in the late 70s early 80s there was a pawn shop here in Pittsburgh that always had good gear fenders gibsons marshalls etc miss those days

I owned a pawnshop years ago. Lotta amazing guitars would come in. I had a 1972J 45 walk in one time. Numerous Gibson Les Pauls. Numerous vintage chief seers guitars. They were in new condition. Definitely check out all pawn shops. Oh yeah I had a frying pan come in one time to. Lap steel.

I found a '55 Jr. exactly like the one you found in a pawn shop in Parkersburg, W. VA. in 1979.

Hey brother it's been a while since I've been on KZfaq. Glad to see ya healed up well my friend

Cool you were in my part of Tennessee, if I had known I would have said howdy, we were literally looking at that Les Paul Jr the other day

That Les Paul Jr. is sweet!!! Nice Playing!!!!

I have a 2015 Les Paul jr in the vintage tobacco colour like this love that guitar

I've never been in a pawn shop before. There are a few close to home, maybe I'll stop in sometime soon.

I purchased a 1981 Hagstrom Swede in a pawn shop for $100 but it needed a neck pickup, which was missing. I put in a Seymour Duncan jazz humbucker. Really warm pickup. Beautiful instrument....

You're a really good guitarist.... 🤙

I thought for sure you were going to buy it!

Holy shit dude what a sound at 6:00 mins in.that was totaly eddie van halens tone from aint talking bout love!!!! Amazing!!!

I got my acoustic at a local pawn shop. I fell in love with it, didn't get it, and finally went back a few weeks later!

I have a '93MIM Strat that is magic as well as a '97 LP Studio that is special as well. They're both pawn shop scores and are truly special instruments. Also have a '79 PBass fretless that I scored from another pawn shop. This bass is another magical find. It is perfect, but somehow (along with the LP and Strat) sat around at pawnshops. They're the best instruments I have owned.

Found one of the best Guitar music shops while I was camping last year. I definitely be stopping back in as they had a really nice selection of guitars. Drop off the wifey and SIL’s at the knick knack shops and I’m off to the music store 🤘🏼😁

I work at one and you’d be surprised at the stuff that comes in and out i get to deal with bad customers but finding gear and getting dibs on it is worth it ❤

Sick axe, dude!

I'm busy! got an appointment. but can't stop watching this video!

Thanks Tyler

I found a 1980s Strat style Japanese "SHONE" guitar (dirt cheap @ yard sale) ... can't find much on Shone other than some have said if have one, don't get rid of it.

Dude, what were you doing in my hometown?!? That is awesome! Also, I hope you got some PAL'S while you were there.

Found a prs se jazz 2 hollow body and nice squire strat in my local pawn shop got it all in good condition for 2k probably the best deal I’ll ever get

Pawn Shops guitars in Nashville: FENDER, GIBSON, MARTIN, TAYLOR Pawm Shop guitars where I live: Sandchez, Cort, Honner, unbranded, Yahama, Jackson

Nice find

Dude. Yer gettin good. Solo album comin up. ?

That place has great guitars and amps, I personally have never seen a deal in a pawn shop.

Little bit of a drive from Nashville, but I'm impressed by a pawn shop with a Two Rock...

i just watched your video of giving away 22 guitars for just playing "ANYTHING" and im so envious i live in the UK and cant partake in these events, keep up the good work man!

I LOVE Pawn Shop Guitars. Where was this Place ! I heard the Guy say something about Bristol ? So …. Tennessee ?

We have a pawn shop that gets oddball guitars and basses. But it was a thirft shop that had this really great looking but way in need of many repairs to play comfortably original Univox semi-hollow. Plus they didn’t have an amp for me to test what was actually working. “As is” was too risky for me.

@Musiciswin I've been looking for a video on your site that I cant seem to find and was wondering if it was maybe removed for some reason. The one where you used the Keeley Monterey while playing the Hendrix version of the Star Spangled Banner...

Right after lock down, I went to my local guitar center and managed to snag a 61 Custom Shop Closet Classic Strat in shoreline gold that eddies guitars originally had. Only $800. I did flip it late last year for $3100.

I want that guitar!!!

Darn.. must be nice to have a local pawn shop that actually has decent selection like I see behind you. The ones in my area usually are filled with junk or one nice guitar but they want an ugly amount of money for it when I could just go buy new or from Reverb where I know its usually a trusted seller based on ratings.

I bought an 84’ studio standard LP a couple years ago from a pawn shop for $750. One of my never sells now. Shaws pick ups are awesome in it

I just bought an all metal dobro. I don't even know how to use a slide, but I couldn't resist!!

3:48 the "ok wait how much was it again" face

I just snagged a bucket list guitar for a hell of a price at my local pawn shop. It’s not a particularly great guitar, but it’s one that I was in love with when I first started playing, but a friend at the time convinced me that “Yamaha doesn’t make good guitars…” anyway, it’s an RGX A2, and I snagged it for just $120.

When I was about 18 I started playing bass because my soon to be brother and father in law needed a bass player and said I should learn. Jon, my brother in law, loaned me his very crappy (lol) bass. I can’t even remember what it was. I loved playing, but soon became bored with bass and started to learn guitar. I LOVED guitars, I think, more than playing them. I soon started going to pawn shops and realized, after playing several, several, that I loved Les Paul guitars. I could have bought at least fifty in approximately a four year period, for anywhere from $200-350. My brother in law, Jon, who just turned 18, bought a new 1983 Les Paul Custom, hard shell case, and a Peavey amp, for about $800. The amp was a two twelve combo with chorus, I don’t remember the model, but it wasn’t a little practice amp. This was in the days pre GNR, then they ruined everything. As soon as they came along playing Les Pauls, everyone wanted one and you couldn’t touch one under $600-700. I finally was able to buy one in about ‘91, a beautiful ‘76 Standard in wine red. I loved that guitar and haven’t played a nicer Les Paul since. I paid $500 for it from a friend who owned a guitar shop. (I bought several guitars there including a ‘90 Takamine Jumbo acoustic with a cedar top. That I still own today.) Unfortunately, about a year after I bought the LP I had some financial trouble and had to sell that guitar. The worst guitar story of my life.

BRO, YOU WERE IN JC?! I live not too far from there. I hope you visited Campbell's Music too.

I walked into a pawn shop over here in the uk, not a good pawn shop either….that being said: I did find myself a Vox SDC55 Tea Burst for £80

My best pawn shop find, a mint condition 1972 Fender Stratocaster, with a perfect sunburst ... just $100. It was like it had never been used, and there it was, just hanging on the wall among Squires, beat up Epiphone LPs and crap I'd never heard of.

6:00 now please enjoy this copyright free version of all along the watchtower.

I Could easily spend a few days in a store like that love it enjoy fellas🕊

That Les Paul Jr has a sorta KISS sound when he adds a lot of gain…

GREAT VIDEO,THANKS FOR SHARING

So close, Hope you ate at Freiberg's while there.. you were about 20 steps away.