Customer Testimonials

Score another one for Clintonville! Swampdog's Music is Columbus's one stop shop for guitars and gear, as well as all your other other musical needs (even trombone players like meeee will find yourselves taken care of - Swampdog's has slide grease and value oil, as well as other accouterment for brass and reed players!). AND owner Russ V. now has the store all ramped up and increasingly cool with the additions of OSU musicology doctoral student/former String Shop guitar teacher Tom B. aaaaand the boy of Yelp review fame, my sidekick in most of MY reviews, Columbus's own Arturo X. (you know, THAT guy :), taking care of all your guitar repairs, retail guitar and amp suggestions, and general kick ass music knowledge, as well as advertising (be sure to grab one of the sweet new Swampdog's tshirts!). If this doesn't make you want to stop in, then clearly you have no soul. ;) 

No, but really. I remember buying slide grease *pushes up glasses* here back in the day, and while I was slightly shy about the whole thing since there are a bunch of killer looking guitars on the wall *pushes up glasses again,* Russ was sweet and helpful and catered to my needs, making me feel just as badass as if I were buying a flying V. I think with the addition of the two aforementioned kickass gentleman, along with amp repair available on the weekly, you're going to be hearing and seeing a whole lot more of Swampdog's in the near future. Afterall, with so few small local gear stores left, where else are you going to come across this much diverse expertise concentrated in one space? (Plus, look for the awesome coupons and fliers hitting Clintonville/campus in the coming days). 

Russ really does have some incredible guitars in here - an extraordinary selection for sure, instruments that are slightly off the wall in color or shape... which you find yourself lusting after. He also has some more standard guitars, as well as an incredible amount of amps (the Orange amps are so cute... yes, I said cute) for a relatively small space (is it magic? how do they all fit?), as well as a nice selection of straps, music, etc. The new arrangement of the store also makes it seem more open and easy to walk around - it's like being a kid in a candy store. Also notable is a new and well-chosen bin of used CDs, as well as some of the best music advice and discussion you're going to get in Columbus. These are the dudes you've been looking for, and if it wasn't already, this is your new music shop, Cbus.