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Post subject: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:47 am
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Just announced a 1968 Tribute Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster.
http://www.fender.com/custom-shop/featu ... blackmore/
It appears to be a replica of a non-scalloped guitar, I wished it had the graduated scallops and it would be perfect, but still very cool.
Any chance of getting the scallops Mike E??
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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:30 am
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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:11 pm
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Long, long, long overdue tribute to the guy that made me pick up the electric guitar!
In my heart he was and will always be the best of all times. :D

Once thing I'd wish Fender didn't do was tying the guitar to just "Smoke on the Water". He used that Strat for the most part of his brilliant MKII period. There are so many other amazing Deep Purple songs from those days it feels almost foolish to stereotype Blackmore with SOTW.

That said, what's the difference between the '68 pickups on this guitar and the regular CS'69s?


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:17 pm
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Why is it $8K also, the trem is custom, but was the original exactly copied, ect??
Tribute is interpreted as...
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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:14 am
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Just reverse the angle of the bridge pickup, go back to the stock trem arm and call it the Band of Gypsys Tribute Strat, licensed by Experience Hendrix of course..lol :)
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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:05 am
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I was hoping Mike would chime in but with Namm....it's understandable that he would have no time.

It is iconic and of the time. I had one similar made a few years ago because it did echo Jimi and Ritchie's classics

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I went with Nitro though because it just feels better to my hands, although I am having a 71 built with will use the 'correct' materials and have the diffence between the headstock and fretboard. That instrument is pure Ritchie, the one that he started to scallop by hand-I am not doing that as it would be masterbuilt and I just cannot manage scallops anyway-too many other guitars.

Hope to hear more about this instrument though. I think Ritchie from 71-77 really made a mark on music. Neo Classical Rock wouldn't have existed without him. I don't really follow what he is doing these days, but I respect his choice to do what he wants. Hey, I am killing myself to learn 50's style bebop, so what do I know

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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:24 am
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peter531 wrote:
I think Ritchie from 71-77 really made a mark on music.


Yet you wouldn't know it by listening to the so-called "classic rock" radio stations in the part of the US where I live. You have infinitely more chances of catching a Billy Joel, Eagles or Elton John song on those stations than anything from Deep Purple. Dio-era Rainbow? Only in your dreams.
Not even the 40 years of "Machine Head" -one of the highest peaks in the history of rock- inspired these guys in my area to play Deep Purple songs in 2012. Sad.


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:32 pm
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Dio-Era-Rainbow was one band I regret not seeing. They only played Montreal in Eastern Canada and as a 14 year old I don't think my parents were open to my taking a 6h our train ride from Toronto. Rising will always be the highlight but all 3 of the studio albums are top drawer. Blackmore was right to leave Purple-the music was shifting away from where he wanted to be, or maybe he was just bored. Nevertheless Come Taste the Band was a great album, not a DP one really. How great was it to have DP and Rainbow at the same time!! Sadly problems caught up to many of the members. Do we have anything that compares to this type of stuff right now? i am sure people will cite their current favourites etc...but really 1965-1978 or so was the classic era of Rock. Not Rock n' Roll, that pretty much died with Eddie C.

I am doing my part-my teenage daughter loves DP and Rainbow first and foremost and has a good smattering of other raucous music to go with it. She doesn't talk music with her friends-for good reason! :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:45 pm
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So. True. That was the golden era of rock. Nobody can touch those guys. True rock stars.

I guess I'm doing my part too, my 18 month daughter sings the melody of Highway Star and when she tries to speak on the phone with me when I'm at work, she hears my voice and automatically starts singing the SOTW riff. She cracks me up! :D


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:13 pm
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A small bump in hopes that Mike sees the thread at "Ask..." and responds to it here when he has a chance. Some of the questions would be:

- Differences between the '68 and '69 CS pickups.
- Was it modelled after the original (which many believe to be long gone)?
- What was the extent of Blackmore's involvement in the project -if at all.
- Why no scalloping, marketing or production reasons?
- Why is it 8K? Unless it's a faithful reproduction of the original, that is.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:27 pm
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His section is closed :cry:

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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:23 pm
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I know, that's too bad. Do you know if there's any chance to have somebody else from the CS to answer these questions?

I'd also like to know if the '68 pickups are going to be available to buy separate...


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:38 am
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I saw the Blackmore Strat and at Namm, and I was drooling all over lusting for it, but the price is too steep for what I make for a living, darn. I don't understand why some of these guitars are so expensive. Well I can only hope that the tooth fairy leaves me enough money one of these days, to get that guitar. :D


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop Tribute '68 Blackmore Strat
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:13 am
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I got used to Mike addressing all of our questions and now that Fender have made this long overdue tribute Strat there's nobody to answer anymore. :cry:

If I'm going to spend 8K on a guitar it's normal I'll have some questions...


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