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Youl get over that once you try to sell him a guitar

@@johnsmith-bk4ps that’s what i heard indeed. He’s a very shrewd business man, nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn’t bring anything i would like to sell to that store 😅

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100% Agreed. As it turns out, my brother and I started buying guitars at garage sales and swap meets. We sold several to Norm's in his first shop in Reseda Ca. Also some amps. You're right about them too. Mesa Boogie Amps came out and old Fender Tweeds were inexpensive. A guy named Scott was Norm's shop manager at the time. Wish I held on to some of those. Bout my first car from those sales. Now I could have bought a house.

You never sold him a guitar

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I'm in England, I'm 63 and it's on my bucket list to visit, but just hope it's not an anti-climax as I've bought it up so much in my mind, but will list other things to do whilst I'm there.

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Yes, off the charts pricey!

Scarsdale is one of the wealthiest communities in the USA

@@ChromaticHarp Yes wealthy is a requirement to be there however, even the natives have a double take about the price of a near perfect 1953 Telecaster or a 1957 Stratocaster! It’s even expensive for them! 😎🎸

@@user-cv1jf1wq2m Well, it IS Scarsdale!

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Same here, a mint 65 gibson electric. He wouldnt budge above 350. I needed gas money to get home.the sky,s grow dark when he,s buying

Nowadays you're better off selling on FB marketplace than going to one of these jokers.

Hey....that's your story. He can't be likeable in every situation and be best friend to everyone. For what it's worth, I believe you. Why wouldn't I? Everyone will eventually show you their assh*le side. I know that when I was young, I had a particularly peculiar penchant at bringing out the assh*le in some of the nicest people. I'd call it a talent. I'm not as good with that anymore, but it's probably for the best. Anyway, I for one thank you for your perspective, and your courage to share your story. And hey, it was the 90's. it's been 30 plus years since. We all change and thank goodness for the human proclivity to want to do better as we age__usually. Huh? He definitely roots for a lot of the young guitarists that stop by to play. Take care, brother.

A business isn't a pawn shop. When you have to pay $30,000 a month rent to stay in business an owner has to make profit. Sell it yourself and stop whining.

@@curtisogle4333 Goerge Gruhn in Nashville treated me the same way. Offered me $25 for a pristine 100 yr old mandolin

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@@brandnewyou5254 What did he say? Half a story there.

Show the proof to the police, not to Norm.

@@davidcollin1436 I've never been able to get in contact with somebody that would even put me directly in contact with one of these guys and I wouldn't want to involve the police if I could just track the guitar down see getting the police involved will just make the guitar disappear I want to track the guitar down

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@@WickBeavers should have bought one

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Sadly, being in the music industry - especially back then... I'm sure Jaco is unfortunately one on a long list of people who have self-destructed. Be well Tris!

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Thats what my older brother did, now he mows lawns, we both talk about if he had kept all those guitars! My pal up north never got rid of anything, he has 2 million in guitars, just his martins are around a million, les pauls etc etc. He has started selling them here and there to retire and travel !

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It's a damn shame.

@@dragonpundit.6443 you know, I look for the scam in everything what can I say? I’m from the north east that’s just the way we’re wired and normal. Got somebody’s great all guitars in the 70s and 80s but they weren’t worth anything. They were 25 years old then and manufacturing guitarist when I started playing in the 70s, which pretty poor The Japanese entered the market and blew away the American guitars. I’m granted to the late 70s when you could buy early 60s Les Paul at a pawnshop starting to play guitar in the late 70s and my father didn’t want to spend $150 on 1968 telecaster cause it was too much money to spend on the kid which is fair what $20,000 I’m a musician. I’m a working class guy. I can’t afford that that’s a car and those early 60s eyes balls are at 30 and $40,000. So the only people you’re attracting are doctors lawyers in Indian chiefs with these school instruments and those guys pretend to play blues blues, which are really bad at working musicians like you and I can have something old and cool unless it’s really beat up or modified heavily a working guitar with all working guitars but nowadays they’re making some great instruments and new ones that fuck him I’ll take the new instruments. You guys can keep the old ones, but normal is a typical baby boomer and he’s trying to sell everybody those guitars highly inflated or what their value should be nice or 50s to be worth at most five $6000 because you spent that kind of money to have Luther or Collins or somebody who is respected build you a guitar would be the greatest ever played so why would you buy a factory instrument made by a bunch of unskilled people for the price of what it would cost you to buy a house it doesn’t make sense to me all you are doing is making Norm rich in a market. He helped create..

Yes, he has a negative influence, he's doing it purely to make bank

Just curious… would I be correct in guessing that none of you who are knocking him have ever gotten an idea, run with it and been passionate and dedicated enough about it to do whatever it took to transform it into a business, even if that meant working 90-120 hours a week to run, develop and market it? This is part of what is meant by phrases like “The American Dream” and “The land of the free and the home of the brave”. Norm was a working musician who wasn’t earning enough to live well, had the inspiration, sheer guts and determination to make something out of nothing, took a simple idea and created a business from scratch and learning as he went, to support his family. I know about that and respect him as much as I do because I did the exact same thing, 40 years ago, when I was a professional drummer and drum instructor whose wife came down with a debilitating condition (MS). With all her medical expenses, the only way we were going to make it was if I came up with some other way to bring in money, so I built a business doing something I had never done before, teaching myself as I went, and I kept on doing that for 27 years, until the Great Recession wiped it out (at which point I went back to school, learned a new trade and launched a new business that I’m still running today). IMHO, necessity is the mother of invention, invention is the mother of determination, determination is the mother of endless hours of insanely hard work, insanely hard work is the mother of success and success is the mother of criticism from armchair quarterbacks who’ve never actually 11:27 put in the work to achieve results like those that they’re criticizing.

@@TheHelpCoach well, I like hoarding guitars just as much as the next person. He hoards on a large scale, which makes them harder to get, artificially inflating the price, so it costs me more to be a pig

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Hire a lawyer instead of wasting time on KZfaq

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