This is for you, our customers, to tell us what you think, what you want or how you like what we have or what we do. Please feel free to contribute here.
Thanks for your time and trouble and most of all for being our customer.
BAM
This is for you, our customers, to tell us what you think, what you want or how you like what we have or what we do. Please feel free to contribute here.
Thanks for your time and trouble and most of all for being our customer.
BAM
January 28, 2008 at 1:57 am |
Nice to be a part of this “Intra-web” series of tubes. I will do my best to post new Guitar arrivals. Many times, guitars that we receive will sell before they’ve gotten on the floor-I know that I hate when guitars sell before I get a chance to see them…
At the moment, one of my latest arrivals is a Jimmy Page Double-Neck out of the Gibson Custom Shop. One of only 250, quite a sight if you’ve never seen one-may not get a chance to see another. Stop by on your lunch hour, or your day off, or during work (I won’t tell) and always make sure to ask about what’s new and exciting. We’ll see you then…
January 31, 2008 at 11:03 pm |
This site is a great idea. I drop in to the store from time to time, but being electronically connected will now allow me to browse and dream daily. Keep those cool “new items’ coming, and i’ll work on my wife to see which ones i can convince her i need. It is so nice to have a place to come and shop and/or visit where the feeling is more like friends than store clerks. Thanks for making music so easy to enjoy and obtain….
See you all soon….
February 5, 2008 at 6:46 am |
Gee,
I see that the Windsor Studio is shipping. Do you have one(some) in-store at this time?
Also, will BAM be selling the new Epiphone Prophecy series guitars? More specific the SG Prophecy EX.
Thanx.
-M
February 19, 2008 at 7:54 am |
B.A.M. has grown so much over the last 5 years. It was a pleasant surprise to visit there recently and see the BEAUTIFUL new guitar room. Nice job, Guys! (ps – nice wordpress, too…)
February 23, 2008 at 11:16 pm |
Thanks sooo much for everything guys. I bought a bunch of strings from you guys andyou sold me my first tube amp. The peavey classic 30. I thank you soo much for bringing me into the tube world.You guys are the best
March 17, 2008 at 5:37 pm |
This is a great music store – I’ve seen you guys for rentals for my son’s DJ business, and have bought alot of cables, mixers, lights, and assorted other items. Your service is excellent, with prices to match. Love the guitar section – just brought a little parlor guitar in, and it was repaired quickly! Thanks for everything!
April 7, 2008 at 2:21 am |
I’ve known Reese since…..let’s see…..first there was dirt……then there were rocks…you get the idea. Reese is my Man. Always has been, always will be. The “shows” that he is putting on speak to his sincerity and dedication to the well-being of ALL Seattle area musicians. I am grateful that he and his crew go to so much trouble to provide all of us with insightful, musical experiences that otherwise would not happen. AND IT’S FREE.
Props to Jim and John for patiently assisting me with all my stupid questions over many, many years. Especially Jim. You’re a Prince!
April 29, 2008 at 9:17 pm |
What an outstanding evening! Thank you, so much, for hosting Don Alder and Yamaha Guitars tonight. You are the best! Jeff & Karen Schaub
April 30, 2008 at 5:51 am |
Wow, that was quite an evening. It was inspiring to hear Don. Thank you Reese and BAM for hosting the evening. Thank you Don for your commitment to guitar players and lovers. Thank you Yamaha for your generosity in sponsoring Don and for giving away a guitar. It was an unexpected wonderful night.
April 30, 2008 at 7:04 pm |
At time I yearn for the old days when you guys would let me take a guitar home on a smile and a promise to pay (which I always did), I do like the expansion and some brands I have never heard of. As far as the Yamaha demonstration went, I am glad they had the music do the talking, for all the special patented this and that on guitars, I got two things out of it”
1. Yamaha acoustic guitar can speak for themselves and don’t need madison ave
2. Jazz Alley is not the only venue for steller intimate music.
Don performance makes me want to play and for all his virtuosity on guitar,
the music wasn’t bad either.
I did promise God that if I he wanted me to give up all my wicked ways to let me win that free Yamaha guitar.
I guess we know the answer to that.
Thanks for everything, see you soon
May 20, 2008 at 4:42 pm |
I sure did have fun with the Gibson Namm Trailer. As a lefty it was my first opportunity to try out some of the gibson models besides a Les Paul.
I have tried out in the past lefty Gibson and Epiphone Les Pauls and I can appreciate that they are fine guitars, they never felt right to me. Not a fault of construction, but I have very large hands and my playing style didn’t seem to agree so I assumed that I was a fender tele player. Then I got to play the Elliot Eastman SG, it was like heaven to me. Now I will be honest, I am not going to buy a $7K guitar, but I might buy an SG, Gibson is making them in the sub $2k range and it was everything in feel that I love and very different from my Fenders. It has opened my eyes to the possibility of having my first little Gibson. Of course this causes the problem of which existing guitar has to go to one of my kids house since I overran my place long ago, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Thanks for the Gibson event and if I win those tickets to Return to Forever, I am prepared to give up all my wicked ways.
June 8, 2008 at 3:42 am |
Thanks again Reece and Yamaha for the great event today, It was great to meet a variety of the Yamaha folks. I have had some long festering questions about some of my Yamaha gear answered and had an in depth explanation of the Yamaha PSR series keyboards and personal demonstration. To say that I am knocked out is an understatement, this is no BS I have determined to buy from BAM a Yamaha keyboard even if it costs a bit extra compared to online.
Today your price was hundreds of dollars less than what what I could get it online, in addition Yamaha rep gave me resources to learn how to use the thing to full advantage. I have a prejudice that any keyboard that has speakers installed into the case is not professional despite the convienance of not having to hook up to my main amps for monitoring, I am stunned by the depth and realism I heard today, definitely better than the beat box of old. The free refreshments were nice too, fresh coffee and donuts. Thanks for the free pen, I am going to use it to write that check for next keyboard.
Great Job, looking forward to Doyle Dykes
June 8, 2008 at 3:45 am |
As an adendum, I would never in a million years think that an arranger keyboard would be something I am interested in and on top of all the free this and that, I am finding this a great place to meet chicks.
Maybe I will find a few wicked ways.
June 27, 2008 at 9:30 pm |
While my pursuit of musical virtuosity has not flagged through the decades that I’ve played, times have dictated whether others had a hand in fanning my passionate predation for more…more…and your organization, whether I have been there or not, has given me concrete information over the internet much better than even some of the local experts. For your service orientation and follow-up, I owe you folks and cannot wait to leave the North Beach on a trek to search out your store and see what I can come away with.
October 15, 2008 at 1:46 am |
Just an unsolicited heads-up on several great products recently acquired (in no significant order, brief credentials follow) from BAM:
1. Composite Acoustics (Performer model) carbon fiber guitar: The BEST acoustic guitar I’ve ever played at any price ($500 to >$5000), regardless of what it’s made of. Table your wood-ite ways and give them a try.
2. Peavey ReValver Mk III amp plug-in software: the most amp-like digital technology I’ve tried, and I’ve been playing digital products for the last 7 years, analog for the previous 40 years.
3. Fender Custom Shop Strat Pro: the best production Strat I’ve played in 47 years.
4. Johnny’s Jack DeVol strings are still undefeated. I may have purchased a lifetime supply. At my age, though, that’s not very many!
I”ve been playing for (surprise) 47 years, 20 years full time, the rest wishing I still was full time. I drive 300 miles just to buy from these guys, so you should too. I’ve been a customer ever since they opened and before (if you count San Francisco and Seattle’s 1st Avenue).
If gas prices keep coming down, or opportunities knock maybe I’ll get to come in more often.
October 27, 2008 at 8:57 pm |
Why BAM is the best music store:
They don’t let my tantrums bother them. They provide therapy when I come in crying about my tone.
They have the high-end gear one cannot find at other stores. They know what they are talking about. They know the industry people in order to find and acquire the things I need. They are not afraid to contact slow-to-respond OEMs in order to get the ball rolling. They went to NAMM and brought back a specific one-of-a-kind item for me.
They have given me so many good deals; I don’t know how they’ve been able to stay in business (glad they have, though).
“They” include Gee, Jim, Jonny, and of course Reese. They are some of my favorite people.
Gee told me he didn’t like Cloverfield however. So, well, he’s a dumbass.
Sincerely,
Mike Sales
November 24, 2008 at 1:36 am |
It would be great if your website had a few tabs instead of being one long scroll. I came to the site to find your hours of operation, and just kept scrolling and scrolling. It was not a pleasant experience.