Vintage guitar store Rumble Seat Music closed their stores in New York and California and relocated to Nashville, with their doors opening in September.
The guitar store is known around the world for selling some of the most sought after vintage guitars on the market, including bursts, custom colored Stratocasters, and custom colored Marshall stacks.
Rumble Seat Music has had locations in three different states over a more than 20-year period, focusing on online sales and being appointment only for in-person visits, but moved to Nashville to open a store that welcomes all musicians into the store.
"Lawyers, real estate agents, everybody's a musician," Eliot Michael, owner of Rumble Seat Music, said. "I think that's what's going to be really cool about being here."
While thousands of new guitars are made every single day, the vintage guitar market remains healthy.
"They were built perfect back then. They sound great, they play great, they just have this magic about them," Michael explained.
The new Rumble Seat Music shop opened on the 1800 block of 8th Avenue South near Grimey's between Gruhn Guitars and Carter Vintage Guitars, two of the premier vintage guitar shops in the world.
"I figured if I go right in between, we'd have a spot where people could come from all over the world," Michael said.
When Michael was growing up in Brooklyn, he would frequently visit 48th Street in Manhattan, an area known as "Music Row", where all the music shops were together.
You could see Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and many others wandering from store to store, and that's the environment Michael hopes can be built in Nashville along 8th Avenue.
"Just come down and have fun," Michael said. "See what we have and enjoy yourself while you're down here. We have really cool guitars."
Rumble Seat Music will be open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and they plan to have a grand opening in October.
