Guitar Shopping for the VINTAGE, WEIRD & UNUSUAL!

Sorry about the shaky, grainy video quality in this one. I was using a Go-Pro type action cam knockoff that just wasn't great and had no manual focus. Future videos like this will be better quality.

15:46 Oh my LORD you've found my old GBX AMP!!!! That is a very unique (these days) guitar amp made in Canada. I believe "Gar" (as we called him back then) of Garnet from and of Garnet amps and equipment out of Winnipeg was involved with GBX when it first started in the late 1960's then he broke off and made the Garnet lines of gear. The amp you are looking at isn't complete. You can see the Velcro strips on top (Just like mine had) which were put there to hold the pre amp control unit that sat on top of it originally. The Control until had raised sides just like the speaker/Amp bottom has but was non powered and had simple controls of volume, Bass maybe Middle and Treble and if remember right (which I might not LOL) it had Tremolo controls too but I could be mixing that up with something else. It had a blue Metal face on it like the blue metal plate on the back of the AMP/Speaker. I got the GBX when I was just 13 years old (I'm 53 now) so in 1979. I went to the local music store in where I lived, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada trying to get an amp big enough to play with a set of drums as I only had a little SEARS practice amp with a 10" speaker. I also had a Yamaha Trombone and case and I wanted to trade the Trombone for an amp. The owner had a soft spot for us local kids trying to make a band (I almost lived in his store as a youth if I could have I would have LOL) so he showed me the big old amp and I was in love!! The speakers had Metal centers in the cones with a little screened over 1/2 inch hole in the CENTER of them. The amp had no over drive or distortion but once I turned it up past half way it was like heaven descended down to earth. That creamy overdrive sound is something I;m still chasing to this day. Or maybe I was just young and thought it was that great of a sound as it was so loud and I would have loved any distorted type sound at the time LOL. I'd just LOVE to hear the amp one more time to see if it really was as great as I remembered. I ended up trading it off for something else and now I believe it may just be the very bottom you see here in this video. No way of actually knowing. But those Velcro strips tell me it just might be. Thanks for the great videos! I'm subbed and binge watching LOL.

He's that dude in the guitar store that spends 8 hours with an employee, goes through literally everything in the store and then walks out after not buying anything.

When I worked in a bike shop in the eighties, my boss had us take all bikes and put them in first gear at the end of the day. I asked him why once and he said I want the customer to feel that this bike is effortless to ride and give them a great feeling when they take off. I often thought, guitar shops should go through and tune guitars in the down time....40 per cent of the riffing folks in this video were out of tune and then probably would pass on a perfectly good guitar cause it didn't sound right. Loved this video and I could watch it without buying anything. I picked up a weird guitar last week a silver creek T170 and now I am 200 less in my account....but a great big smile on my face every time I play it

The background music from hell.

Sounds like a Shaggs cover band is playing the entire time.

Oh man everyone in the store sounded out of tune LOL 😂 Great Video.

Who else loves the smell of a music store ?

Simply one of the best and most well rounded guitar channels on YT! Thanks for all you do. Much appreciated.

I enjoyed this very much. Thanks for taking me along for the ride.

Denmark St in London used to be like that but a combination of young managers who can't cope in hostile financial climbates, high shop and flat rents in London plus eBay means the days of weird and wonderful smelly old guitar shops full of weird gear on patches of carpet held together with duct tape and nicotine are loooong gone.

Your lucky you have places like this to still check out used gear. I used to go around the pawn shops around my area just to see what's new but they have more or less started to use the Internet to sell music gear quicker and usually for a larger mark up than what they could get local.

Loved it. When you really liked something you lowered your voice like it was a secret

I could watch this type video all day...thank you

That Hagstrom Viking is RIGHT up my alley!. Oh man!

In the 70s, a friend had a GBX 2x12 combo. It was a beast. Heavy and loud. My first amp was a used EMC G110. Thanks for taking us shopping.

I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. This place is better than some guitar shows I've been to.

Ooooooo... I missed this vid when it first posted and just found it. I love these, "hunting for old/odd gear" vids. Christmas is a day early.

I saved a lot of money shopping with you today! Thank you for the trip!😉

This was the best 47min all day every day❤️