From http://www.thisdayinmusic.com

March 21st, 1991,
Leo Fender, the inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson's disease. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 40s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

Wonder how much better fender would be if he didn't sell it?

not saying fender is bad...

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Nice goggles!!!

for those who know who Shaun White and and Dan Kass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0PqyvHx ... D&index=40

Probably would have changed later in his lifetime anyway--but maybe some of his G&L ideas would be on Fenders?

I played one of the Mustang/Duosonic style G&L's the other day--a used one in a store--and the feel was very similar to my Mustang--nice guitar.

He had a lot of great ideas, and surrounded himself with other talented people. He wasn't threatened by them, but utilized them to great effect. Together they created what Fender was, and because of that deserve some of the the credit for what Fender is today. (In a good way.)

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I picked up a guitar handbook on a whim saturday and read about what Leo Fender did after he left Fender. I did not realize how many companies he worked with making guitars. That man sure knew how to keep busy!

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I tried to think of something clever to put here but- OH! Something shiny!!!

That's interesting! I didn't know that...I should research him some more...

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Here's a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fender

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I tried to think of something clever to put here but- OH! Something shiny!!!

By the way he sald his G&L guitars were the best guitars he had ever built ..... so I wonder how they feel I hope someday I get one of those!

thanks again bros !

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

hey fenderfanatic, check out my new song that I wrote on my thread. need more imput. kinda stuck on putting music to it

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Life is only what you make it to be.
Angel Mariee my lovely fiance.
she is everything to mee. my inspiration to life, music and everything..

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace"
-jimi hendrix-

THE MOST AMAZING THING IS LEO DID NOT PLAY GUITAR,

Very true. A major part of Leo's genius was his unique ability to listen to what his clients were telling him and to put their feedback into action. Here's an article I've posted here before, but it bears repeating:

What We Can Learn From the Fender Stratocaster

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

There was some interesting info on Leo and his life's work in those articles.

I didn't know he died from complications of Parkinson's disease. But I do know how horrilble the disease is since my father-in-law also has it.

Has anyone mentioned that he would have been one hundred years old this year.

G&L are releasing some special edition guitars this year because of this fact.

HE IS GOING TO BE 100 THIS YEAR AND FENDER HAS NOTHING PLANNED?

Could be because has not owned Fender since 1965. Alot of his years after were when he founded and designed things for Musicman like the Stingray and then he went on to start G&L with George Fullerton and Dale Hyatt which took him back building guitars like the Strat and Tele again and working on enhancements to the original designs. Fender has not been Leo Fender for a long time. The great Fender instruments today are from a unsung group of builders and people who took a company that was going down and turned it around in 1985 when it became Fender Musical Instruments.

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