Denmark Street Guitars

 

If you ever are in London for Work and need a reliable Guitar, take the central or northern line subway to Tottenham Court Road (TCR), stroll 2 minutes south to Denmark Street and pick one up. Prices are fair, not much higher than Thomann, the staff in all shops are competent, chatty and friendly, If you buy from gumtree or facebook marketplace to "save money", you might get a melon since there's tons of tweakers and loafers in London, like any other big metropolis.

here are some guitars i held in my hands, test played and they are all solid guitars

This List was compiled ca 6 months ago.

Prices might have changed by now.

-- WUNJO GUITARS --

# GRETSCH JIM DANDY #  

a parlor guitar with great looks but sounds a bit dull. playability is ok. 

Price 200 £

# FENDER VINTERA II  50's TELECASTER #

a 50s tele with a nice big neck. cool retro look.  

Price 795 £

-- DENMARK STREET SOUNDS --

#  KLEMT ECHOLETTE AMPLIFIER #

those were made in Munich in the 50s and 60s back in the Rock'nRoll Greaser Era. There's 2 or 3 of them here but i didn't test them. They just look so cool. Surprised to find them here.

# GRETSCH G 547 OT  #

nice red white retro look, superb playability, cool bigsby tremolo. 

(can't find exact picture, above pic is just a similar Gretsch)

Price 800 £

#  SQUIRE JAGUAR #

Elegant black body and black pick guard (can't find exact picture on the web), 

nice tone, playability and feel overall even tho it's a squire.

Price 270 £

# TELECASTER MIJ   #

worn body, superb setup, nice big neck. one of 3 or more traditional 50s style 

butterscotch telecasters i tested (in different shops). they were all great.

Price 1099 £

#  EDDIE FINN CIGAR BOX GUITAR #

i was very surprised how much sound came out of this small thing that cost a measely 110 £.

If you have a busking permit for Westminster you can make that money back on a single day or even a few hours.

#  BRIAN MAY RED SPECIAL #

i tested the blue version, the color doesn't matter, every guitar is set up perfectly. for all QUEEN fans or people who want something uncommon. a solid guitar.

Price 880 £

# TANGLEWOOD TC8 #

great playability and tone at a very low price point. the perfect busking guitar.

I checked other cheap guitars too but this one offered the most bang for the buck.

Price 130 £

-- DAWSONS MUSIC --

# MARTIN JUNIOR 000JRE  #

compact guitar but not too small, great sound. rule of thumb the smaller the body, the less tone it produces. there are smaller Martins and Taylors (Mini and Baby) but i found this one a great compromise.

Price 750 £

# VINTERA II 50'S NOCASTER   #

another great 50s tele with original butterscotch look. another nice big neck to hold onto.

unlike in 90's style heavy metal thin "race necks" your fingers won't cramp up.

Price 1000 £

-- NOTOM GUITARS --

#  Guild Starfire 1 #

Semiacoustic in Surf Blue, thin neck but great action and playability.

Price 600 £

Other than that, Notom Guitars mostly has Guild, Tanglewood and Fenders

-- ROSE MORRIS --

Rose Morris mostly has:

Taylors, Martins, and Squiers (that cost almost as much as Fenders)

There are 3 or 4 more guitar stores in Denmark Street with maybe good guitars 

but i didn't take anymore notes.. Don't be surprised to see £20.000 + guitars casually standing in the windowsill with very little protection other than some steel bars. This is London, not Palermo.

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If you need a small but elegant guitar amp that sounds fantastic and has some damn good inbuilt effects and amp models, go to Yamaha Music London in Soho, 152-160 Wardour Street, and pick up the THR5 V2 modeling amplifier, or its slightly bigger brother the THR 10

Price 169 £

Professional Rodeo = Clown Show

 

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Let's start with a little Quiz..

What is harder to fly than a Cessna 172..

and even slightly faster than a V-Tail Bonnie?

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Well?

You don't need to be landed gentry 

to make an educated guess..

drum roll please..

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So What's Newmarket, Suffolk all about?

Well there's Frankel..

"the HQ"

Tattersalls

And some high-maintenance Thoroughbreds

Along with Sheikh Mohammed bin Mohammed, from the line of Mohammed, who arrived with his Chauffeur Mohammed and his valet Mohammed.. (Well actually the valet's name is Chad..)

but Jest aside. Gotta hand it to the Brits. 

They just know how to breed good mares, innit?

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Traditional horse racing is kinda boring and monotonous from a rider's perspective. A weird dude keeps talking in a strange accent and all you see is Asses. Horses aren't that fast really, not that slow either. Here's a POV vid from Rachel Venniker..

Tomboy Rachel got true gender justice and was boxed in on final sprint, her horse had plenty reserves but couldn't activate beast mode..

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So that's pretty much every Sport out there in a Nutshell. A big old Clown show. That's what the Peasants wanna see, when they run to BETFRED to gamble away their week's earnings. So they can keep their kids in public school to learn about Jew Soap and Shrunken Heads.

 

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Riding Broncs and Bulls is no Joke. 

Some of the accidents are staged, 

but not all of them.

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the Sunday Sermon..

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And just in Case you wanna know who the 

formidable Clown Dale Brisby is..

Look no further than

this Trap

who also happens to play

this Noob

And the Classy Blonde on the left? Well..

  

It's Complicated..

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But now i wanna show you my own Horses.

Sadly my Stable can only hold 4 at a time.

Not even my Corral at Beecher's Hope can hold more than 4, which is disappointing.

This is SternSchnuppe (Sternenhimmel) named after the night sky, since her coat looks like the night sky in a color negative. She's small, endearing, speed and stamina are ok, handling not so good (most horses in this game handle terribly in the mountains, in tight turns, or on rocky terrain with boulders..)

you see in the stats this Horse is not comparable to a thoroughbred. I had caught at least 2 thoroughbreds and got some from missions as well. But they died or glitched out on me. One time i fell off a really high cliff, my horse fell too and my last save was 8 hours back. So i lost my horse. That's kinda annoying but you always get new horses.

this is an american Standardbred called "America" it's nothing special, slightly above average stats (better than a Mustang, paint horse, hungarian halfbred, saddler, walker or other ubiquitous breeds. I like it cause it's reliable and solid as a rock, just like a gun, car, guitar or other item "made in U.S.A." top speed is subpar, and when you ride it after a thoroughbred, arabian or turkoman, it feels kinda slow, but slow is fast, as the saying goes. a beautiful looking horse, big enough for me, and if this was a real life scenario a horse like that (maybe Haflinger or bigger quarterhorse at least 16 hh high) is what i would put my money on. (sadly there are no quarterhorses in this game). In Real Life at my present station i would never buy trophy horses. They only give slightly better performance, cost 50 times more and when they break a leg they become salami. i want a versatile and intelligent ranch horse or something for trail riding, not a disney princess.

Sadly there are no Blacksmiths in this game. RDR2 is still the best horse game (and western game) ever made, might take 5 or 10 years til we get a better one. I have extremely detailed plans for 3 different Story Driven and Immersive Games and One shorter game (walking simulator) that i'd like to "birth" but it takes millions of dollars, a huge team, time, and lots of money. So they will have to wait, just like my short film scripts. (least the ones that were not stolen by Nice Airport Police in France)

now to the last horse..

this is the white arabian that i charmed and tamed in the far Northwest by this glacier lake. It always respawns there, so whenever your main horse dies, you can tame this one and try to groom it up to level 4 as quickly as possible (lots of praising, feeding treats, brushing, leading by the rope). For some reason this

horse always gets dirty when you ride through water or mud, and then gets a real "dirty" look with grey spots all over. I named it "Rhi" after Kara Ben Nemsi's famous mount in the Karl May series.

Rhi is really fast and the handling is the best in the game, which means it's acceptable, but still leaves a lot to be desired. (Riding Horses in AC Odyssey was much more fun and handling felt more intuitive). When getting a horse, acceleration and top speed are not as important as handling (most horses handle like shit), and behavior around predators. A turkoman or other war horse will rarely buck you up, nimble racehorses act skittish around predators and start side-stepping, snorting, neighing, or make a big loop around the source of danger. This also helps to find snakes or Crocodiles (The latter you can easily slaughter wholesale with an improved tomahawk, and snakes you must trail using red eye, then run a semicircle around them, forcing them to hunker down, before you can easily shoot them in dead eye with a small game arrow to the head).

i always try to shave and look presentable, but sometimes i forget or there's no barber around or i am too busy doing missions. i actually am at 98.5% completion right now, done pretty much everything, only the gambler challenge where you have to win at blackjack 3 times by taking up more than 2 cards. that shit's close to impossible. i am also missing 4 green parakeets, and still need to hunt them to extinction. All the other animals are completely done. Some were a pain to find!

Of course i had more horses, a big white Shire whose name i can't remember, i tried Mustangs, Hungarians, and in the epilogue bought a beautiful and highly capable roan Turkoman that was probably the best horse i ever rode in the game, but needed to make space in the stable, i only can have 4 at a time. (According to the Lore, (which we all know is true, cause would a Jew ever lie to you?) Solomon had 40.000 chariot horses. He also had 700 Wives but they probably turned him gay. It was maybe just a wee bit too much. According to Josephus, Moni finally passed at a ripe old age of 72, and with a woeful voice uttered his final words: "Das war wohl zuviel des Juden"..

Anyway, i decided to try out this Ardennes Coldblood one day, and was positively surprised. I called it "Wawuschel" cause it was so big and hairy and surprisingly fast. It would even jump off smaller cliff edges. Top speed was not so high and handling only average (meaning terrible) but this horse also got the job done.

I ride a Beaver Saddle (just bring the Trapper a perfect pelt and you'll get it). My handguns are sawed off shotgun with slugs (left hand) against predator attacks, and Volcanic Pistol with High Speed ammo for the right hand. Left side of Wheel i put Varmint Rifle, which sees constant use. Sometimes i replace it with the bow to bag perfect pelts. My standard longarm (bottom wheel) is the Springfield with a Medium scope and High Speed Ammo. The Carcano or Bolt Action or Falling Block you need to use only once or twice in the game for an extreme long distance shot (sharpshooter challenge.)

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so yeah, the PBR is a crock, like every other sport on television. Don't say i didn't warn you. 

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I wanna end this post with a very resolute young lady. Don't know what forces her to excell at such a young age, i hope her parents don't apply any undue pressure.. (There seem to be a few more really young and really successful barrel racers..) Don't really care about her interviews cause i hate lies, but watching her race barrels is just

so gratifying..

was trying to find a compilation of her best rides but all i get is shorts with terrible music and lame ass interviews where adults ask her how she feels about winning one million $. that just shows you that everything that goes through a tv camera is an act perpetuated by whores who have sold out to "the game". there's nothing real about them in any sense of the word. why would a child care about a million dollars. is that all you ever think about? are you such whores?

LEAVE THE KID ALONE. PUT THE MONEY IN A COLLEGE FUND AND LET HER RIDE HER PINK BICYCLE. SHE'S A CHILD. chrissakes.

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