![]() ![]() I was very satisfied and would recommend them to friends. In the past, I felt Musicians Friend was top-notch. I can't recoup all the time I have spent trying to get this order taken care of, but at least it appears everything is finally in order as it should be. She was fantastic and one of the few highlights of the whole transaction. Luckily, I had a great Sales person that worked with me that was finally able to get everything taken care of. I had already covered $1500 and they wanted an additional $500. It turns out that once they started looking into the issue, it appeared they had already sent me one of the Blue floor models from Guitar Center and wanted me to pay $500 more, in order to get the new White bass from the MF warehouse. I never heard anything else from him.Īfter a few more days, I said screw it and told them to cancel the Blue bass my son originally wanted and just send me the White version that I knew was new from Musicians Friend's warehouse. I asked him to check and see if he could find a new one and let me know. One of the Guitar Center's managers reached out to me and told me they only have floor models. ![]() There's no telling what I'd end up getting. (Remember what I said earlier in this post?) If a music store can't take care of, at best, 8 basses hanging on the wall and make sure they are in working order, I don't want one of their floor models. I asked that they only send me a new bass from Guitar Center, not a floor model. They told me they didn't have it in inventory and their "sister company" (Guitar Center) would be fulfilling the order. I called back and asked them why I hadn't received a shipping number for it. When I didn't hear back with regard to the bass I purchased for my son. It's a supply chain issue, everyone in the country is dealing with. I knew (and understand) the bass I wanted is on backorder. I've seen Pawn Shops that take better care of their instruments than they did.ġ0 days ago I reached out to Musicians Friend to purchase a bass for my son and to also purchase one for myself. ![]() Most had floppy strings, the basses were not tuned and some of the basses had missing strings. Quick recap: About a month ago I went to Guitar Center. Because the truth is that there are plenty of people competing for that role, and they're going to have to defend that turf."Īnd it may take more than happy accidents to do that.Hey guys, I have been dealing with Musicians Friend for 10 days now regarding one order. "And if they can hold on to that, then they'll be lucky. "Now, it's a music-discovery tool - that's all it is," she says. Now 20, he's back on MySpace, posting music as Analog Rebellion.Īngwin says that today, no one uses MySpace for social networking. So kids felt that it was an honest thing. "In the early days, because MySpace was there, I would record a song from 12 to 6 a.m., post it online at 7 a.m., and I'd wake up and have a few thousand hits on it. "I wasn't allowed to release new music whenever I wanted," Hunter says. And he discovered that he didn't have the same amount of freedom as he did during his MySpace days. His online fans were not happy they figured he'd sold out. Hunter's Internet popularity had already peaked when he signed to Island Records as a senior in high school. So it was kind of just mass personal spam - just talking to a lot of people - and through that, I developed a fan base, a small one, and it just started taking care of itself because people spread the word for me." So when I was 15, I would just look for people and add them. "Eventually, I started posting stuff online, not looking for a fan base, but just as a place to put it. "I just started out recording songs in my garage freshman year of high school," Hunter says. Here's how Daniel Hunter did it six years ago, when he started posting music as playradioplay. "Musicians love the MySpace platform," says Angwin, "because not only is it a place to upload your music - there are other places to do that online - but it's a place to build a fan base." And yet a lot of their success was because, in the early days, they listened to their customers and gave them what they wanted."Ī huge number of those customers were musicians eager to share their songs with the public. "There's no reason why these guys should have succeeded - they had terrible technology their ideas weren't so unique they were executed poorly their site is still a mess. " 'Accidental' is the keyword for all of MySpace's history," says Julia Angwin, a technology editor at The Wall Street Journal and author of the book Stealing MySpace. So how did what started as a social networking site become the online home for musicians? ![]() But it's not necessarily a way to get discovered - there are more than 5 million artists registered on MySpace. Almost every band has a MySpace page, which is a free and easy way to let people hear your music. ![]()
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