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Musical Shops in Dublin

  • 22-08-2004 2:01pm
    #1
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭


    Hey does anyone know of any musical shops in Dublin ,Im interested in getting a guitar but i dont know whether to get a bass or electric. If any one knows give me a shout! :eek:


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  • #2
    daram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭daram


    My favourite music shop for guitars esp. is Sound Gear in portabello. Good lads will sort you out with whatever you're after. But there's loads of other shops. Musicmaker, Musician Inc and Waltons are all around the same area near Georges Street. Yamaha Danfay on Aungier Street. Instrumental on Bachelors Walk, em, there's loads more....


  • #3
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    Yeah nice one thanks


  • #4
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    As to which you should play, it depends which one you want to play. Some people really like playing bass for the low end and some people prefer to go crazy and show off on a guitar. I fall somewhere in the middle so I play both! :p


  • #5
    daram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭daram


    Also, if you learn guitar, its piss easy to pick up bass later. Not so much the other way round.


  • #6
    musician.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭musician.ie


    But if you want to get involved in a band, it's generally easier as a bassist - there is always a surplus of guitarists.


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  • #7
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    Bassists can get away with being really weird too , almost as weird as Drummers


  • #8
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Guitarists aren't exactly the most normal group in society either man. Think Daron Malakian. :)


  • #9
    dublinario
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 633 ✭✭✭dublinario


    Remember the brilliant episode of the Simpsons with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Lenny Kravitz et al? Homer and his mates are all getting hyped up about learning the guitar, and suddenly Elvis Costello pops up and asks "doesn't anybody want to learn the Bass Guitar?". We see Homer, karl, Lenny etc with angered expressions on their faces, as if they are offended by the very suggestion. Nobody even bothers to dignify Elvis with an answer, and he duly skulks off.


  • #10
    daram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭daram


    Case closed!


  • #11
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    I must be a proper weirdo so... I started off on drums, learned guitar and picked up bass from there. Now I write songs on guitar for my band, play bass wen we home record coz we have no bass player, and I drum wen we're playin live. Drums are probably my favourite, for the sheer exhileration of playin them. Guitar's easier to fook up on, harder to sound good on. Bass kicks balls! I just love those bad ass bass notes! :p


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