Beat It Music

I went to this store 3 years ago. When I came in, the store was empty but as I walked toward the end/​back of the store, I saw stair to the basement and there was voices of 2 people talking coming from the basement. I decided to look around and after a few minutes, the 2 people emerge from the basement and walk passed by me. I know one of them is the store owner (or somebody who works there) because he was explaining about drums to the other guy. The issue is: the store owner, as he walk passed by me, was just looking at me from the corner of his eyes and didn’t say a single word.
Both the store owner and the customer walk toward to middle of the store and started talking about drums. I stood toward the end of the store watching both of them talking with no sign of the owner to say something like: «I’ll be with you in a minute». While I waited, I was drawn to the Hammond organ which was on the display and I decided to turn it on and play with it and even after I played with the $ 8,000 instrument, the store owner was not even came and say anything to me (as if he don’t care with the expensive hammond instrument).
After playing with the hammond for a while, I decided it was time to go and I started to walk toward the exit door in the front passing the store owner who was still talking with his customer and, again, he didn’t say a single word until I exit the store.
The only thing that came to my mind was the color of my skin might be a factor, I’m not white that is.

After years of passing by in a vehicle and looking out at the storefront drum kit and the name «Beat It» written in perfect Beatles font, I’m glad I finally went in to check this place out! Well… I turns out that it’s a drum store, so get your mind out of the gutter! And then get into the store because it’s lots of fun.
If you’re into vintage drum gear, this is the place to go. One-​off, interesting used gear excites me way more than run-​of-​the-​mill new stuff. Walking around Beat It is like walking around a musician’s toy store and a museum at the same time.
I decided to impulse buy a retro drum throne at a good price. I will always take a high quality piece of gear in used condition to a lower quality new piece at the same price. In the world of music gear, scratches just add character.
The owner is a real friendly guy who you can’t help but want to support. There aren’t to many mom and pop music shops around and Beat It is (as far as I know) the only drum specific music store standing in the whole city. This alone is enough for me to want to support these guys.

«Come they told me Parumpapampum…»
Are you a little drummer boy or girl? Then head down to Beat It; if you are an avid percussionist then you will absolutely salivate when you enter this store. It’s all about drums and cymbals and things that go bang in the night.
The owner Bob is tremendous, he and a former band mate were there shooting the breeze; seems like they had a travelling band and comedy act in their day and are in the process of uploading some YouTube videos of the music as we spoke. Dave actually showed me the bass guitar he used when touring which is the style that Paul McCartney had except right handed.
The place is lined with amazing drum kits, nice affordable beginner models and then they go up to the all collectible drum sets, they even have a drum kit that is the exact replica of Ringo Star’s. What absolutely floored me are the drum kits from the turn of the century that line the upper back wall behind the cash register. Here you will see the golden oldies, drums hand painted oozing with nostalgia and a faint beat.
Bob has a small selection of collectable music for sale plus some collectable radios that date back to the 50s. Bob certainly knows his stuff, and was so interesting to talk to I just wanted to stay in the store all day and hang out, but alas I had things to do so I had to BEAT IT.
I love this store and what they offer… definitely one of Calgary’s best.