L.A. SPEAK : GUITAR CENTER RIFFS
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spinning adj . beyond busy. Customers lined yp, phones ringing. “Somebody page Marty to the drum room. The noon rush showed up and we’re spinning .”
* fluffed adj . when a store’s interior has been decked out with promotional displays--microphones standing in formation, a pyramid of guitar cases.
* meltdown n . annual midwinter sale. “I think I’ll wait for the meltdown to score my Les Paul.”
* dweeber n . novice musician making a show of testing out equipment.
* straight n . vintage guitar in original factory condition. Ant . Frankenstein.
* jazz box n . hollow-body electric guitar favored by jazz players.
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