Earlier this year, local guitar player/collector and entrepreneur Geoff Albert quit his upper-level management job at a certain local music-retail superstore to fulfill a personal dream: owning his own musical instrument store. That dream became a reality in early April, when Albert opened Revolve Guitars and Music at 5238 Stage Rd. in Bartlett.
Albert spoke to the Memphis Flyer this week about opening the store and his career in the music industry.
Flyer: How did you get into music and the music business originally?
Albert: I have always been into guitar. I studied classical guitar in college and got a degree in music theory from the University of Memphis back in the 90s. I then went to grad school for a while for music history. At the time I was also working in a record store and was digging that, and left grad school to pursue it. I spent 18 years in that business with the last 7 years in multi-store management with stores all over the place.
