Guitar Center CEO Gabe Dalporto has spoken at length in the past about how he’s hoping to safeguard the store’s future by improving its stock of electric guitar gear and beyond, but there’s another priority he’s passionately pursuing as the company looks to get back on track – and it has nothing to do with selling gear.
In a new interview with Guitar World, Dalporto laid out his plans for restoring the retail giant’s prestige and reasserting its reputation as a go-to destination for players, and while there’s understandably a huge push on improving the quality of the gear it sells in order to cater to ‘the serious musician’, there’s also a big impetus on developing the next generation of players.
