And Bain Capital owns and controls them both Plus Music 123, Woodwind and Brass wind, Music Centers, Toy r Us, Burger king, Warner Music, Sports Authority, Dominoes Pizza, Staples, along with pieces of numerous other companies. And who is Bain Capital but three guys one of which is former Governor Mitt Romney they started with less the 40 million and now worth about 70 Billion, Billion that is.

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

Well GC has been taken a beating on the forum for awhile now, and it has been written up they might be in trouble. I guess Sam Ash is using there noodle and seem out to sway the public there way. Glad to here those who got some nice breaks. Even though GC owns MF it does not seem to run there operation as MF had the best deals by far of anyone this year.

Can't complain about GC here...they've always taken care of me and taken the time to explain. Went there Friday for the 15% off sale but it was too jammed with people in every department. Went online and bought items separately and received the 15% off on each. Got email that one of them had already shipped on Saturday!

I've ordered from MF, AMS, but right now, I love Sweetwater. They really take great care of me, and if I have a question about any piece of gear I own, even if I didn't get it from them, my "Sales Engineer", Kurt has a good answer.

Yeah on the back of the coupons it said "excludes _________" and named off every brand name guitar. but i found a pretty cool employee that hooked me up and gave be the black friday discount 2 days before black friday. i got an american fender deluxe for only 1098$. you just need to find a nice employee.