In a 2008 article appearing in the E-Commerce Times, Gartner's vice president of research, Gene Alvarez, had this to say about online shoe retailer Zappos: and more »
only Cartographer pulling double duty — Madden fronts Blowing Trees and plays keyboards for the Pillows, Alvarez plays guitar in Austin's Space Pandas, 
alvarez guitar?
what type of guitar do you guys suggest? i live in a fairly small town with only a few little guitar shops that carry only like 4 or 5 guitars, so its kind of hard for me to try out a bunch of guitars in person.
so i have turned to internet shopping. i have been looking around on musiciansfriend.com, and i found a guitar i like, heres the link: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Alvarez-RD20SC-Regent-Series-Dreadnought-AcousticElectric-Cutaway?sku=518729
what do you guys think of that guitar? i only know a little bit about guitars, i dont really know which brands are good... but i know i dont want a cheeply made one. also i dont want just a generic light yellow guitar. i want one that has more style. like that alvarez one in Natural.
i hope that all that was clear... thanks guys. anything is appreciated.
From what I've heard there not a bad guitar, especially the acoustic. The main thing is what sound and action do you like, that's what really counts, everyone has a preference, have you played this guitar, or are you ordering it without knowing what the brand sounds and feels like, that I don't recommend, especially if it's something that you can't send back. Some one in my family got that Estaban Guitar without asking me, and oh boy what a mess that was, and when I called the guitar shop the clerk said, " don't tell me, it's an Estaban", and I said, "how did you know", and he said, everyone who buys one wants to know what they can do with it to make it playable. !!!!! When Estaban plays it on TV it sounds great, but just try and play it, I think mice could crawl under those strings !!!!!!! One thing I tell all my students it's not the price, it's the action and the sound, I've had very expensive ones and the more moderate priced ones and there's good and bad in both, in fact I bought an guitar for $1, 400, dollars and after a week took it back and got one for half that price, I didn't like the action or the sound, so you can never tell, for me I have to play, feel, and hear a guitar before I buy it, price doesn't matter, it's all in the sound and feel, some that I've liked are Les Paul, Gibson, Taylor, one of the best as for acoustic guitars that I really loved was a Yamaha acoustic electric, I played about five of them and that fifth one had a great sound so I bought it, that was about $250.00, but I got it on sale, just ask, the people at the Guitar Center are great at giving you a deal. The rest of the guitars are all classical brands, so I don't think you would be familiar with them, my number one guitar is a Ramirez, I play and teach classical, (my dream guitar, there made in Spain), I'd love to have one of them !!!!!!
