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Guitar Center was founded in Hollywood in 1959 by Wayne Mitchell as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use. In 1964, after a supplier required him to carry Vox guitar amplifiers, to continue receiving organs, Mitchell added the amplifiers to his inventory and renamed the store The Vox Center, leveraging the Beatles association with the Vox brand.
The Fender Music Foundation, formerly The Guitar Center Music Foundation, was established in 2005 in Westlake Village, California by Larry Thomas when he retired as CEO of Guitar Center, Inc. The foundation became active in 2006, raising $765,000 [1] and awarding its first grants at the end of that year. By the end of 2007, their grants ...
Mike Pratt was the Chief Executive Officer of Guitar Center Inc. in 2013–14. He replaced Kevin Layden and managed both the Future Shop and Best Buy brands. He joined Best Buy Canada in 1990 as a Future Shop sales representative upon graduation from the University of Ontario.
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By 2005, Music & Arts Center was operating 60 retail locations and 7 educational support centers throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. [3] On February 9, 2005, Guitar Center announced the acquisition of Music & Arts Center and its plans to merge Music & Arts Center with its American Music Group division of band and orchestral instrument ...
Initially founded in 1984 as the Guitar Center of Minneapolis, it was renamed Musictech College and moved to St. Paul in 2001. The school was renamed again as McNally Smith College of Music [ 3 ] by the school's two founders, Jack McNally and Doug Smith, to memorialize themselves on the school's 2005 20th anniversary.
Epiphone produces a similar guitar as the Tony Iommi G-400. [13] Iommi's original SG (used on the early Sabbath albums) was a modified cherry red, left-handed 1964 SG Special with P-90 pickups which he nicknamed "Monkey" after he added a sticker of a monkey playing a fiddle to the guitar.
This guitar is made in Mexico and comes in Candy Apple red and three-color sunburst. [16] Fender Jaguar Baritone Special HH. Similar to the Jaguar HH, except that it has fewer switching options, and a longer 27" scale length (as opposed to the normal 24"), and is designed to be tuned a fourth below a standard guitar (B E A D F# B, low to high).