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What are customers saying about us? Well have a look! Below you will find
testimonials and feedback from different Amoeba Customers.
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Armando Cepeda - 11/11/2010
My first visit to Amoeba was today, and I had the time of my life. My friend is so awesome. He waited in line for me at 4 a.m. and got me my Scott Pilgrim signing pass. Then, I came today (Thursday) and I was in line. Sure enough, on my first day, I got interviewed by the Amoeba people and I was just so darn excited. Then, when I started getting autographs from the cast, I just could not contain my excitement. I kept repeating "Oh My God." I'm sure the actors and actresses all experience that when signing autographs, but this was my first time getting autographs, so such a thing could not contain my excitement. Nothing could really. Michael Cera even asked me if I was high. I just cannot thank everyone who put that event together and all the workers, who were very nice. I'm coming back to Amoeba whenever I can, as soon as I get my Driver's License. This is quite possibly the BEST store ever. Thank you everyone. I'm so stoked to have experienced Amoeba and an autograph signing session in just ONE night. =)
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Jonathan Kent - 11/11/2010
I remember the first time I went to Amoeba. I was looking for the Paul McCartney album "Tug of War" and in this day and age where everything is digital it is hard to find the actual physical CD of it. I went because a friend of mine told me that he was pretty sure that they had it because the store was huge. I decided to go and when I stepped in I was in awe, there were so many aisle of cd's and what not I did not no where to begin.
As I went through the aisles looking at all the CD's they had, I finally found I wanted. They did so I picked it up and then I wondered, if they had another CD I wanted and I looked for it and found it. I did this about several times and before I knew it, I had been in the store for about 2 hours and hand eight CD's when I originally went for one.
I would recommend Amoeba to anyone who has an interest in music in general. You can pretty much fine almost everything you are looking for. Also the employees who work there are very friendly and are really willing to help you out.
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Liane Chan - 11/11/2010
This photos is from the Tegan and Sara in store on July 24, 2007 that I went to with my brother Jacob, who has been a fan of their's for awhile. He's currently living in San Francisco and attends many of the events there. One of my earliest Amoeba in-stores was Puffy Ami Yumi, and we saw Albert Hammond, Jr. of the Strokes shopping there after the event!
Amoeba is easily the best and biggest record store in California. I've been to many Amoeba performances and signings in LA and San Francisco, the most recent being tonight's Scott Pilgrim signing in Hollywood. I went with my boyfriend Andrew, who I've also seen a couple Japanese bands with at Amoeba (Chatmonchy in Hollywood and Tsushimamire in San Francisco).
I met Jodi, one of my best concert/road trip buddies, at Amoeba in San Francisco after a BRMC in-store in September 2005. We went on to attend many other shows together, including another BRMC in-store in San Francisco earlier this year. Amoeba has not only brought me closer to the music I love so much, but it has also given me life-long friends to share the music with!
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Justin Wicker - 11/11/2010
I am first and foremost a music fan. I've been collecting vinyl (and later CDs) since 1979 or so - which is when I bought my first 45; Charlie Dore's Pilot of the Airwaves. I was immediately hooked on the rush of vinyl. This was soon followed by the 12" for No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Donna Summer and a slumming Barbra Streisand. And, shortly after that, Queen's Flash Gordon Theme took up permanent residence in my record player. At this point there was no turning back. By the mid-80s I was all about CDs and Maxi-CD Singles - I'd always known I should sidestep cassettes! Though I briefly flirted with cassingles and still own a few. Cassettes were too much like the extinct 8-tracks I'd so loved as a kid. I never got over that heartbreak. Anyway, here I am thirty years on and I still record shop just about everyday. Whether it's hitting the mother of all used record stores Amoeba Hollywood or digging through the racks at Out of the Closet and the bins at The Goodwill I look high and low for lost treasures past, as well as new releases that seem special. I love pop music. I love dance music. I love funk. I sing in a chorus, so I have some interesting choral releases. I grew up in a house with a gifted piano player - my older sister Steph. She had me humming Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and more by the age of three. I cried all the way home from the movie theater, at age six - the finale of You Light Up My Life where Laurie realizes her dream of being a singer devastated me. It was like watching a birth. I knew that was the life for me! I was obsessed with The Rose soundtrack and by age eight wished I chug whiskey straight from the bottle so I could die a dramatic death on stage in the middle of my world tour. I secretly hated my parents for about a year because even though we had the Grease soundtrack (on gatefold double vinyl) we weren't allowed to see the movie because of "adult language" in the song Greased Lightnin'. I held a similar grudge for them after banning KISS LPs from our home. All has since been forgiven. My cousins got to see KISS in Seattle in 1979 and I was not allowed to go. They have never let me forget this. They will not be forgiven! So, that's me in a nutshell. Nutty for music. I'm nuts for Amoeba. It feeds me. It keeps those memories alive every time I step in their doors. Each time I find one of those treasures from my past I'm transported to that time and place. Amoeba is magic because they are the impossible. They are my magic time machine. As they can transport me back they also propel me forward always putting something new and just out of reach in front of me. Amoeba is my little gateway to my past and to my future. I love them for what they do and see a lifelong friend in them. And now the lucky devils of Los Angeles will reap the benefits of my countless hours of searching the hallowed aisles at Amoeba. I have my own club night. And thanks to them I have the best collection of music. Now, I think I have good taste and if you come and hear my stuff you'll see a bit of a pattern. It is heavy on 80s and 90s - the music of my formative decades. But it has a dose of 70s and definitely has new music with roots in those classics from bygone eras. Right now I'm sitting on over 10,000 CDs, 2,000+ pieces of vinyl (7", 10", 12") and three cassingles. My music night is possible thanks to Amoeba. Thanks for supporting my habit. Thanks for supporting my passion. Music. Sweet, sweet music. xx, Justin aka Camille "12inches" Towe
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alan thurgood - 11/11/2010
Living in Vancouver, going to Amoeba on the Haight is like going on a the haj. Spiritual enlightenment through music I can't get at home.
Best acquisitions, What it Is motown comp, Tepid Peppermint Wonderland Brian Jonestown comp, Punky Reggae Party comp.
Best in-store Joe Strummer.
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brian prada - 11/11/2010
three words: LOVE IS HELL
after watching over endless ebay auctions for ryan adams' love is hell on vinyl over the years (many of which ended over my price limit at well over $100), I went to Amoeba Hollywood for the first time and there it was on the wall! I think it was only $50 or something crazy like that. one of the best finds ever! Amoeba rules!
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Damien Villarreal - 11/11/2010
Amoeba is easily one of (if not the) best place in the world. Whenever my best friend and I say were going to hang out in hollywood for the day, we end up just spending the entire time at Amoeba. Although I have many stories about Amoeba including my first time, the most memorable to me would have to be the Jenny and Johnny in-store show.
My best friend and I had been meaning to go to Amoeba before summer was over and we moved away to college. I noticed Jenny and Johnny were making an appearance so we figured it would be the best day to go, free show, then get stuff signed and a couple posters and cds. My friend had brought a CD of hers to sign and I was planning on picking up a copy of the cult classic film The Wizard (starring Jenny Lewis).
Upon arriving at Amoeba I searched the entire upstairs for any kind of copy of The Wizard as I had seen one there in previous visits, but unfortunately I could not find one. I was a little disappointed, but before the show began, it was announced Jenny and Johnny were not going to do any kind of signing or anything, so I was relieved.
During the show my friend and I had noticed someone was allowed into the restricted aisle in the middle. This stranger had a coat on but it was summer in LA, so we knew something was up. Upon turning around we realized it was Elvis Costello! (You can even see us behind him in the picture of him there on the Amoeba facebook page.) Once the show was over the whole store was packed. We were also famished so we figured we'd get some food and resume our shopping once the store cleared out a bit.
Once we had returned my friend went over to rock vinyl section and I was at the other end of the store. After about 15 min I receive a call from my friend informing me that Jenny Lewis at the register. I went over and we caught her right around the front door. We first congratulated her on an awesome show and then I asked how awesome it must have been to have Elvis Costello in the audience. She said it was crazy and that he had even gone back stage to talk to them. I then went on to tell my story of how I wanted to get a copy of The Wizard, which she found amusing and said she wasn't even sure if that movie had a dvd release.
We then got a picture together and while taking it she said "I feel so steezy." After this Johnathan Rice walked up and commented on the UC Santa Cruz shirt I was wearing, saying how it was used by Tarantino in Pulp Fiction. We then finished our meeting with another congratulations on the performance and my friend and I went on with our searching. Definitely my coolest trip to Amoeba.
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