pm blues

  • Website: http://www.pmblues.com/
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    • RI,  USA
  • Bio: I first got interested in buying and selling vintage guitars in 1971 when I was studying at URI. I learned I could buy 1950's Les Paul Juniors and 60's Strats from URI students, and sell them to Mike Allison at Providence Guitar & Banjo Co. who already was connected to vintage market back then... At that time you could rent a house in Rhode Island near the ocean for $125 a month, and LP Gas to heat with was only 25 cents a gallon. So I saw there was a way to play with guitars all day every day, and make a living too, and have been at it ever since. I played in bands during the 1970s, but couldn't make enough doing that. I continued buying selling trading guitars and amps with other musicians. In 1984 I got my first store front, a tiny 325 square foot store on Broadway, Rt. 1 in Pawtucket, RI. right off Route 95 near the Massachusetts Border. I was there 10 years. I hung over 100 guitars on hooks from the ceiling. Visitors would say "It's like looking up into guitar heaven". In 1994 I bought and moved into the former Columbia Furniture Building, an Elegant 1930's building with tin ceilings and pine floors and right in the center of the Birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution in Historic Downtown Pawtucket RI. My store occupies 4,000 sq ft on the ground floor. Providence Music Service is next door at 64 Exchange Street, and they service all sorts of musical instruments and devices. I opened there on May 1, 1994 with a main wall of over 100 electric guitars and basses, a showroom floor with hundreds of amps new and vintage, and an acoustic room with 50 acoustics on the wall. I had all the makes new and used. We were the largest store in the region, and I met all the stars like Johnny A, J Geils, Elliott Easton, and many others, and we served our musician and collector clients well until the early 2000's, when chain stores came into the region and pissed so heavily into the stew that it became tasteless, as it remains today. All the major manufacturer's went along with the chain stores, and shit into the stew, and the deal was done. The Walmarts of the Music Business make a very bland and bad tasting music experience. Luckily, the internet came along, and I was born to sell guitars on the world wide web. But finding vintage instruments these days is a very time consuming business. I no longer have enough time to carry on a vintage guitar business, and also allow local casual visits. Locals were not buying guitars. People from other States and Countries were. I had to pay full attention to them to my actual paying customers. In 2007, I took down my signs, locked the front door, and went to an appointment only format. It works much better. If you are interested in something I have, just call me at 401 722 5837. If you want to get the most money you can for your old guitar, bass, or amp, just call me at 401 722 5837. I attended many guitar shows from the early 1990's until 2005 as a buyer. I put up my first website at pmblues.com in 1999. I've been on ebay since 1999 with 100% Positive Feedback seller name pmblues. I am located near the Rhode Island Massachusetts border. I am the primary buyer of guitars basses and amps in the New England Region. I pay the highest prices for vintage Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, P Bass, J Bass, Tele Bass, vintage Gibson Guitars, Mandolins, Martin Guitars, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Mosrite, vintage pedals.
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    • Payment: Visa, Mastercard, cashiers check, money order, personal check (US only), wire transfer, barter, trade. ............Our international customers use wire transfer.
    • Shipping: We ship UPS unless otherwise specified. We have sucessfully shipped hundreds of guitars and amps all over the world. We will ship to you in a professional manner. Special packing is available.
    • Returns: I do not ship on approval. I am willing to give extensive phone descriptions so that you know exactly what you are getting, and you get exactly what you want. When you get the item, it will be exactly as I described it, or your money cheerfully refunded. Anything shipped to me that does not bear a return authorization number provided by me will not be accepted by the receiving department. No new merchandise will ever be accepted back if it has parts missing or is damaged or the original packaging is missing or if the item is in any way altered. Any exceptions are at the sole discretion of pm blues.
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