CREEM’S 4th ANNUAL GUITAR BREAK

[Before you get into CREEMs Fourth Annual Guitar Break, aka our Guide to Musical Instruments, let us take the time to give a tip of our hat to the writers involved; the good old boys who run Strings “n Things down in Memphis, Tennessee, supplier to the stars. These guys not only buy and sell everything you could possibly want to conjure music out of, but most of them are bona fide musicians; hep cats whove given up the Holiday Inn and Masonic hall circuit to settle down and provide their bro' musicians with all the necessities. We have the electric guitar section, courtesy of Chris Lovell, Bill Parsley, Nick Chatal. Tom Keckler and Tom Stenson. Yes, all of them. AHen Hester and Bud Chitton turned out the acoustic guitars section. Charlie Lowing will tell you all about bass guitars, and Big Dave Patrick has all the dope on drums. Boy Howdy, boys Ed. ]

Once again CREEM rallies to the plight of the downtrodden masses, this time to advise and thus protect the often unwitting consumer of musical merchandise from that scourge of free enterprise, The Shaft. As is the case in other arenas, the smiling demons of retail sales will risk the gauntlet to woo an uncommitted buyer, shooting him so full of technical jargon and offhand reference to Famous Rock Stars that the poor guy Ts ashamed not to waste his money. This should come as no surprise to anyone into used cars or Reverend Ike, but for those of you who have managed thus far to avoid the somber realities of profit and loss vhere are a few words which may make your next trip to the music store more rewarding.