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[prowla]

7 minutes ago, paulmcnamara said:

Apparently Hobgoblin in London is Paul McCartney's favourite music shop....... it's spitting distance from his MPL Offices in Soho Square. Maybe he'll invest in the company?

I didn't even know there was one in London.

[bass_dinger]

24 minutes ago, paulmcnamara said:

Apparently Hobgoblin in London is Paul McCartney's favourite music shop....... it's spitting distance from his MPL Offices in Soho Square. Maybe he'll invest in the company?

 

One of the chaps there (John, who has since left) told me how Paul McCartney was a regular visitor to the shop, and he sold him a Hathway mandolin. Paul McCartney asked for a discount, and after a few minutes of negotiation, John said "in the time that we have been talking, you have earned enough in royalties to buy it!".  All in good humour, and Paul McCartney paid full price.

 

John also taught Paul McCartney a few chords, which he used in a song that he later released - Dance Tonight.

 

 

[Terry M.]

18 minutes ago, prowla said:

I didn't even know there was one in London.

Popped in there last year briefly. As a bassist I thought it had nothing to offer me.This is by no means meant in a slanderous way whatsoever.

[chris667]

21 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

 

John also taught Paul McCartney a few chords, which he used in a song that he later released - Dance Tonight.

I bet he dines out on that!

 

I really like Hobgoblin, but I have also been a bit disappointed the last couple of times I've been in one. I just felt a bit unwelcome.

 

Massive shout out to Foulds in Derby. Great shop.

Edited 4 hours ago by chris667

[bass_dinger]

12 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Popped in there last year briefly. As a bassist I thought it had nothing to offer me.This is by no means meant in a slanderous way whatsoever.

Hobgoblin is more your folk music shop - they do have acoustic basses (4 string, fretless and even a 5 string which they made for me). But they specialise in stuff that other shops don't stock: accordions, thumb pianos, erhu (Chinese violin), Indian lap-harmoniums, fretless banjos, marimba, chambord, bagpipes, and a couple of zebra-hides worth of African drums. 

 

If you haven't heard of it, can't play it, and don't need it, Hobgoblin stock it.