Has Anyone Visited This Shop?

[just strum]

This is directed towards our European fretters and primarily ones that have been or are in the London area. I am searching for some information on a Epiphone 1956 Harry Volpe guitar and came across this site. This is the kind of store that would be a great treat to visit. It would also help to have some cash, but the opportunity to just visit would be rewarding.

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

This is directed towards our European fretters and primarily ones that have been or are in the London area. I am searching for some information on a Epiphone 1956 Harry Volpe guitar and came across this site. This is the kind of store that would be a great treat to visit. It would also help to have some cash, but the opportunity to just visit would be rewarding.

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/

Yup, I've been to every guitar shop in Denmark Street. I had no cash. Great drooling zone though.

(I would have said on Denmark Street, but one is meant to speak English in England.)

 

[markb]

A scary place. I went in there once but was asked to leave as I was dribbling on the carpets .

The Denmark Street shops are pretty awful really, they're either box shippers or overpriced "vintage" dealers. Try reading the price tags in Andy's if you like a laugh. Historically, the St Giles area has always been the home of dodgy types.

Poverty and crime

For those who failed, London was unforgiving, and they ended up in the impoverished ghettos to the east. Just a few minutes' walk away from what is now the busy shopping district of the modern West End was one of the vilest slums in London: St Giles. 'The houses at St Giles were called "rookeries" because that suggested people packed into nests,' says Professor Dabydeen. 'It was a place of the marginalised and destitute, of pickpockets, of murders, rapes, illegal gambling, cockfighting – any imaginable human depravity took place in St Giles.'

The vast gulf between rich and poor fuelled crime rates, and fear of crime obsessed the rich. Newspapers – another new phenomenon – were passed round coffee houses and regaled their readers with sensational stories about highwaymen, murderers and executions. And the focus for wealthy Londoners' anxieties about crime was St Giles. Paranoia about this wretched quarter reached fever pitch in the early 1700s, when the urban poor seized on a terrifying new vice – gin.

Extracted from http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/i-m/london4.html

 

[just strum]

Reading some of the stuff on the site, they elude to the fact that the Sex Pistols use to practice at one of the locations. I got the impression it was before it became a guitar store. I was also surprised to read that the Sex Pistols practiced

"Glen Matlock & Mick Jones jamming in the Pistols old Rehearsal space"

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/Gallery/12/image/108

 

[Disraeli]

I was also surprised to read that the Sex Pistols practiced

LOl