Mel Booker Music

Really welcoming and great place for assistance. Needed some help tracking a tunomatic bridge for my Samick CA2; Greg Bennett, guitar model I had stashed around for 9 years and I had nothing but a challenge finding one around the AV, in till I contacted Mel.
1^st contact was online on Instagram @MelBookerMusic where he is really active and shares videos and inspiration for musicians, and daily activities for the shop. He was more than willing to help out, compared to every other shop and obnoxious guitar center employees or tech, stating try eBay or whatever site with no info to follow up. No references or nothing. So it was cool to see Mel respond back and take notice of my situation.
2^nd contact was in person at the shop a day later. Mel was beyond kind on giving me actual info, to source my part from various places and even contacted a friend of his for it.
While they didn’t have the part in shop. With all that help, Mel was really kind enough to get me going and playing again. Now that’s a real musician and decent shop right there!
Mel Booker shop is slightly tucked off the freeway of Ave M. Can literally see it driving, by bases card & comics. They have a nice stage for live performance practice, specific rooms for musical lessons, and a spacious layout for activities. Although a minor source of inventory; but all in all, its a nice shop for learning musical instruments or perfecting them vocal chords. This is the place you’d want to learn from it have your kids taught right. They’re front desk host, is also really kind and informative too, many will be pleased by this as I was.
Now I don’t do lessons myself, self taught since 13yrs old for 6yrs (19yrs old) 12hrs daily, but learning from an actual riff master at my age (25yrs old) would be nice. Many believe it’s the instrument or equipment for improvement, but it’s really the musician, although I now see I can only progress further by a teacher, from all my own efforts. So I plan on it with Mel since he seems to be the only guy around the AV caring enough for us musicians, plus he keeps the blues & rock n roll alive!