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I spoke with Joe over the weekend for the first time since he moved down. Man, oh man did he have a lot to say! I could really tell he was loving college so far. He seemed to be meeting lots of people, signed up for a lot of clubs…things just sounded like they were going super well for him and I was so happy to hear it!
I got the low down of his second day rushing during our phone conversation. On day two, he went out with a good friend who lives on Joe’s campus, but goes to a nearby college instead. Over the course of the night, Joe visited Epiphone (again), Rickenbacker (I was excited to hear this!), Gretsch and Alvarez.
Joe said Epiphone is now definitely the front runner (I knew he’d like it!!) He also said that they took his phone number and that he had gotten texts from one of the actives the next day. He planned on coming back to some more events at Epiphone over the next few weeks.
He also visited Gretsch. Now, even though this was my campus too, I know nothing about Gretsch except for the fact that they are small (probably about half the size of the average chapter size) so it was interesting to hear about them. He said he had a really good time there and that they were a close runner up to Epiphone. Gretsch also asked for Joe’s number and gave him a flyer of events for that week.
Rickenbacker was unfortunately a “disappointment”. It was a number of things: the place was overcrowded, he didn’t get a chance to talk to many actives and one of the actives kind of gave him a “you’re bothering me, kid” kind of attitude when he asked if knew my fiancé, even though the active wasn’t in the middle of doing anything. I think he had really high expectations because he knew my fiancé was a member and because of the stories he heard from him, so having just an okay experience was probably a let down. After this experience, Joe was probably not going to check out Rickenbacker again.
Finally, he visited Alvarez. He had a good time there, but didn’t talk to many actives. He’d go back again if the opportunity came up, but he wasn’t making it a priority to go back.
So at this point of time here’s where the chapters stand
Really likes, plans on going back:
Epiphone
Gretsch
Not ruled out, but not a priority:
Alvarez
Likely to be out:
Rickenbacker
Definitely out:
Yamaha
What’s interesting is that he has not visited the “top houses” (Ibanez, Gibson and Hofner) that my fiancé told him to go to “for the parties”. He has also not visited Fender, which is one I suggested.
While he seems to really like with Epiphone and Gretsch, he mentioned that he planned on checking out a few more of the open parties the following weekend (from my understanding, this is the last weekend of open parties...by next weekend, the chapters know who they are looking at and just have a few more invitational events. I *think* this is how it works, but I could be wrong.)
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