I bought my first cab from Wunjo guitars, a great shop! D'you know what they gave me to try out the cab? A 1975 Jazz bass, I think there motto or catchphrase was "try anything we're not precious" I also remember trying out a MM in the bass centre ages when I was a beginner and they were cool, the shop across the street from bass cellar called vintage and rare guitars and I would have thought they'd be quite precious what with a £5000 bass or whatever on the wall but they're cool too. I think you just have to ignore the dicks out there and just get on with it, its what you get when guitarists run bass stores
[quote name='mathewsanchez' post='264461' date='Aug 18 2008, 12:20 PM']I've had a similar experience at the Bass Cellar, the people were a bit touchy about trying out the basses and were constantly keeping an eye on me. It's a shame the customer care was so poor because their stoock was actually very good.
However on the same day I visited about 20 other music shops in London (...I know) and generally people were really nice. In one shop, I think it was Wunjo Guitars, as soon as I looked at an old 60s jazz bass, the guy asked me if I wanted to try it out and what I wanted to plug it into. I ended up playing that bass for about 20 minutes and then I moved onto playing a old ric (they didn't stock EBMM). The weird thing is, a few minutes later a guy came in and bought both basses while I was still playing them. Each bass was priced around £2000 so can't have been short of cash to buy £4000 worth of basses without even trying them. Anyway i'd recommend Wunjo Guitars.
As far as I can recall, Bass Centre was pretty cool too, happy for you to try out anything at your leisure. There was a couple of other shops with really good service but I can't remember the names. Sadly the Bass Cellar was probably one least friendly shops I visited that day.[/quote]