Rok Skool is proud to announce a new partnership with the West End's premier music store: Macaris Guitar Shop of London (www.macaris.co.uk), Macari's is not just another guitar shop , but a family business with musical roots going back more than a century.
The origins of Macari's Music Shop lie back when the new music scene was getting ready to explode - over in America Elvis Presley was doing something weird with his hips and hip kids in England were fighting to get their hands on any new R&B releases - the year was 1963 - the music business was about to go wild!
Clientele at Macari's included every up and coming band, the shop's popularity boosted by the introduction of the new Tonebender Fuzz Box made by the Macari brothers, later to become Colorsound pedals. Notably, Tonebenders went out to Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend who were all instrumental in steering the pedal towards its final design.
It was at Macaris that Jimmy Hendrix acquired his two AC10s, where Frank Zappa got his Tonebender and Vox guitar, where The Who had to have a charge account because they trashed so much gear, where Marc Bolan bought all his crazy effects boxes, where Genesis would shop when they had long hair, where the Stones cleaned them out of guitar strings, anyone who did anything seems to have done it at Macaris!
Here at Rok Skool, our Macaris @ Rok Skool range offers quality guitars of all sizes, in funky shapes and styles – Retro, Flying V, the works! Also electronic drum kits, guitar amps and pedals, black drumsticks, glowing drumsticks...even furry purple guitar straps!
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