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| - This is the most real review on GC here, so read on:
Guitar Center is a festering disease that needs to be stamped out. It's the wallmart of music stores.
It is employed by world class douche nuggets that think, just cause they work at guitar center, that they have some type of credentials in regards to gear purchasing. Being a professional musician myself, I try to stay away from GC at all times in order to maintain sanity.
Reason 1
As a professional musician, I find that GC doesn't carry anything I would purchase other than drum sticks, gig bags, and miscellaneous items. Never will I buy a drum set, for they do not carry sizes outside of the butt-rock/heavy metal spectrum. Never will I buy a cymbal from there, for they have none that sound good, and if there is the chance that they may have an ok K zildj, it's monstrously overpriced. They don't even carry the drum heads I use.
Reason 2
The douchebags. The last thing I need when I'm coming in to pick up some sticks, or a hardware accessory, is dude telling me what he thinks I should buy. Usually I try to be nice, but once in a while I have to go off. Like:
"You should check out the Dennis Chambers Stick", says Guitar Center Douche.
"No thanks, I like those peter erskine ride sticks quite fine", me.
"I'm telling you, if you're doing Jazz, those Dennis Chambers sticks are the way to go. I always use them when I play Jazz." Guitar Center Douche.
"Oh really, when's that, at your house at night, cause I've never seen you out at any of the clubs playing." Me.
"yeah, well I mostly play metal." Guitar Center Douche.
"Yeah, will I mostly play jazz, as my job, so don't try to upsell me on sticks." Me.
This reasons is echoed throughout every musician I hang with. The most recent horror story was about my friend try to buy a PRS guitar from them that they accidentally sold while it was on hold for him. The floor clerk had this to say: "Sorry about that dude, how about I go grab a strat of the wall for you." If you play guitar, then you know someone shopping for a PRS probably doesn't need another strat, and you'd think a professional guitar salesman would know too.
Reason 3
They treat their product like shit. I don't know how many times I've heard of people getting drum sets, and the dude wheeling out a damaged box, saying the drums are fine, only to find the shells being damaged when they got them home. Also, I've seen one of my buddies go through 4 different premier kits, because the shells were out of round. The GC dude says it must be the boat ride, we called Premier, and they said they ship all their kits via airplane. If you buy a guitar there, take it into a luthier immediately, because GC doesn't tech any of their gear, they just put strings on and hang it on the wall.
Reason 4
Guitar wanking in the store... There's nothing that makes me want to beat my head into a wall more than 3 to 6 dudes demoing guitars playing Metallica licks really badly. This also goes for really loud crappy drum solo guy and couldn't play a melody on keyboard piano dude.
Reason 5
Their Pro Audio section is the least pro I've seen. It's like mid grade. Poor mic selection too.
Reason 6
Their online service has much better selection, way better prices, and a better atmosphere.
I understand that all the good ratings are coming from people that don't have such a critical sense of musical gear, but this is understandable for weekend warriors and hobbyists. As a professional musician, I stand behind local shops like Milanos, where one can get some personal service from a dude that really knows his shit about drums, and pay into the community rather than this megalithic Douche Center.
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