I went to Sam Ash (Manhattan) last week, hoping to score some discounted cables.
Looks like I should have gone earlier! It was a sad sight. Barely anything left. Not a single instrument cable in the whole store!
No pedals either. Not even one six-string acoustic guitar in the place.
This was once a wall of guitars and amps:
Not much in the bass section, though if one were inclined to buy this headless greenish monster, a $400 dollar discount might tempt.
Not me! But I couldn't resist picking it up to play it a little; something like that would be locked up high on the wall at a Guitar Center so nobody can breathe on it without permission. Here, nobody cared. I don't even own a fiver, and have never played a multiscale before, so I was curious to give it a try. No cables to hear it plugged in though. It felt... Interesting? Different? Not immediately obvious what the appeal of multiscale is, but it was surprisingly not as difficult to play as I would assume.
It's too bad I'm not in the market for an Ampeg fridge cabinet. Half price! There were good deals on some Hartke gear too, but none of it was anything I needed.
I did find a soft case (for guitar) to replace an old battered one, and a few random things from the mostly empty parts bin on one unattended counter (two gold Hipshot Ultralight tuners for $10 apiece; if they fit on anything I have I will have to pay a lot more than that for two more!)
Overall it had the feeling of a flea market after hours just before the cops sweep through to clear out the riffraff. Sad.
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