Trip to Berlin

[teknoman2]

I am visiting Berlin next week and I was hoping some points regarding guitar gear shops or anything related to music like
nice places with live rock-blues-jazz bands.
I believe Thomas and Tremster are from Berlin, so guys any help will be appreciated.
I only find two guitar stores, checkpoint guitars and Berlin guitars.
Now as far live band pubs I don't know anything.

Cheers,
Panos.

[raulduke]

Me and the wife have been to Berlin a couple of times.

Such an amazing city, with such an interesting history.

In terms of gear shops, if you like synths and esoteric audio stuff, then go here: http://www.schneidersladen.de/de/

[teknoman2]

Cool I will definitely check this out.
Thanx for the advise mate.

Cheers,
Panos.

[Tremster]

Oh dear. Yes, I'm in Berlin.

Guitar stores (you already mentioned two):
http://centralmusic.de/ they have some used and DIY stuff and lots of synths
http://www.borkowsky-berlin.de/ good service, fair pricing, good selection in the Eastern part of town
http://www.guitar-shop.de/ an institution in the western part of town, the electric and acoustic departments on different sides of the street
http://www.wolflehmanngitarren.de/ Classical guitars
http://www.justmusic.de The huge guitar supermarket that you have in any big city, shitty service.

Guitar makers:
http://www.deimelguitarworks.de/
http://www.nickpageguitars.com/
http://www.kuhloguitars.de/
http://www.saitenreiter.com/
http://www.alexguitars.de/
http://www.luk-guitars.de/
http://www.krassegitarren.de
As far as I know you can visit their workshops, they all have some in store, or do sell pedals and stuff on the side.

The following I haven't been to:
http://www.schulz-gitarren.de
http://www.tolz-gitarren.de
http://www.kreuchwig.de
http://www.gitarrenreparatur.info
http://koehngitarren.de
http://www.guitarwars.de

Bars, Clubs and live music: what are your tastes and where will you stay?

[teknoman2]

Oh mate, there are a lot to see.
Maybe I will spend a day only checking those stores, if my wife let me.....
I will be staying near Alexandreplatz and I was thinking finding a nice place to have a beer and listen to live music.
As far now music tastes I don't have any preference, blues-jazz will be ok.

Thank you for this huge list mate.

Cheers.

[alanp]

In terms of gear shops, if you like synths and esoteric audio stuff, then go here: http://www.schneidersladen.de/de/

I'd like to hear a report back if you go here, he seemed quite a likeable and intense guy in the IDOW documentary.

[Tremster]

Forgot this one: http://sunmachine-effects.blogspot.de/
Edit: and this one: http://www.stark-amps.com/ can't comment on them, haven't been, haven't played ...

For bars, the No. 1 tourist area is around Simon-Dach-Straße in Friedrichshain, lots of clubs etc., but really, really crowded on a weekend night. Or any night, actually.
There are others, the areas around Sonntagstraße in Friedrichshain come to mind (tourists as well), around Oranienstraße in Kreuzberg, and around Weserstraße in Neukölln (Hipsters). But you can find a nice club around there.

You should definitely get these two magazines when you arrive and see what you like:
http://www.zitty.de/
http://www.tip-berlin.de

[teknoman2]

Thank you guys for all the infos,
I will try to visit as many as I can and I will report back soon.

Cheers,
Panos.

[micromegas]

I've only been in Berlin for two days.... (shame on me, I have to go back). And everything was programmed as it was a trip organized by my consevatory so I only saw the wall and went to the Philarmonic and did some tipicall things.
However I was able to find some hours for me. This is not guitar related but here it goes:

whatever you do in Berlin, find some time to go to the Pergamon Museum. You can be tired of ruines (Greece has a lot of those ), but being in front of the Ishtar Gates  is like looking through years and years of human culture.