Hey Kevin,
Do you remember the name of the synthesizer shop next to Coast Music on Newport Blvd back in the day? I can’t recall the name and it’s driving me mad.
Thanks
Dean
As you probably know, I worked at Coast Music way back then, but I don’t recall any synth shop.
There might have been a guitar or stereo repair place, but don’t recall their name.
The guitar shop was someone’s name. David something. Maybe David Santos?
Anyway, I do recall there was a Stereo shop and a Licorice Pizza there before they moved from Newport Blvd.
Sorry.. do they still have one of your symths? 
Licorice pizza would be amazing right now.
One of my record storage cases still has the Licorice Pizza lable on it.
I did not know/remembered that you worked for Coast Music. This place shared the wall with Coast.They might have even been owned by them, but they had a different name and front door. This was 76-79ish. I’d ride a moped up there after school and they would let me play on the ARP and the Oberheim synths. I worked at the stereo shop (University Stereo) three doors down from Coast Music for a couple of years starting in 80. The synth shop had gone and Coast had taken over their building and opened up the common wall. Oh well someday the name will come to me.
Thanks
Dean
Yeah. University Stereo. Wow, long time ago.
I worked at Coast around '78 or '79. Something like that.
I do recall that I was 16, so '78 is about right.
Rode my bike there. I didn’t get a driver’s license till I was 21.
I was hired to just dust off pianos, but ended up doing synth demos more often.
And yeah, Licorice Pizza was a really cool record store.
I bought almost all my Rick Wakeman and Genesis records there.
I had forgotten all about Licorice Pizza. Record shops like that are few and far between anymore. I must confess I got most of my old prog. albums from Music Market. Psst I also used to buy my bongs from them also.
Dean
Wow. Music market.
For those that don’t know this place, it was a huge record store located semi-underground.
In the electronic music section it had all sorts of what are considered rare records today.
That store was different because they’d buy records way back then.
You’d often see albums by bands or artists that never made it.
Also, Coast music was a retail store that catered to both home pianos / organs and pro music.T
Your standard wall of guitars on one side, Steinway and Yamaha grands on the other.
All those hip Yamaha Electone organs too.
Back then they carried Arp, Oberheim, Moog and Roland.
There would be a Rhodes or two set up with a Minimoog or Micromoog on top.
Maybe a Prosoloist or Roland sys100 next to them.
I bought my first “pro” synth from their other store, a Cat SRM. Cost 600 then.