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Post subject: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:28 pm
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Everyone has a first look. First moment. When they knew they'd someday own a Fender.

Mine? When I was a kid watching Wayne's World. It was so hot when Cassandra talked about the guitar being a Pre-CBS buyout.

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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:44 pm
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For me it was the first time I saw this one:

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I knew one day I would have to have a CAR Stratocaster!

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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:58 pm
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The first Fender I ever touched was a Bullet Bass at Coyle Music in Lancaster, Ohio. The neck felt so good, and I had a Teisco bass of some kind that had never seen better days, that I had to play later on that night at band practice. I really wanted that Bullet bass. It was only a couple hundred bucks(this was in 1991).

I bought a new JP90(and blue Kustom 200) the next year with proceeds from the labor of burgers and fries.


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I saw this fellow playing one of these on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957......

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I knew at that moment should I ever learn to play, that'd be the guitar for me.

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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:53 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:43 pm
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Fender Telecaster (rosewood neck)

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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:32 am
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my dads friend got a MIJ 62 custom tele RI new in the early '80's, 1983 I think, for his 18th birthday. when he knew I was learning, he said as he didn't use it I could borrow it. all I had at the time was a LP copy and a cheapo fender acoustic.

the tele looked and sounded amazing. and once I had been playing a couple of years, I really realized what a gem I had in my hands, so I asked about buying it. I paid a pittance for it, and now its mine.


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:20 am
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They've long since turned into a cabaret jukebox of hits, and sold out two of their great tunes badly, doing supermarket ads here in oz... Down Down (prices are down), Whatever you want (whatever you need).

But when I saw Quo in the 80s, I noticed the guitars for the first time, and thought how plain and utilitarian they looked, but what a great big fat sound they made, and they made them a part of the show. Parfitt bludgeoning every fat sounding chord out of his, treating it like the tool it was meant to be.

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My dad's old Tele had always been a source of pride for me, but when I discovered the Jag, I was so sold that I immediately tore apart one of his old modding platforms in my quest for that perfect guitar. I think Dave's Champagne Sparkle jag was the one that did it for me.


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:03 am
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Clapton's "Blackie", followed by Springsteen's Tele (or is it a modified Esquire?).


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:26 am
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I can pinpoint it pretty closely, July, summer of '97.

Keep in mind that I live in Central WI, not alot of music stores around and in pre-web days you just didn't have access to all we do now. I had been playing bass a couple years and had an Ibanez that was ok. But I didn't like how long and big it seemed, I'm a short guy at only 5'6" and 34" scale basses just never seemed like a good fit for me. I had tried a Precision once in the only music store around and thought it seemed like an anchor.

In July '97 though, my friends parents bought a house that used to be a working farm, and in the barn loft they found an old beat up chipboard case. In that case was an old Musicmaster bass. It was in terrible shape but my friend gave it to me and said I might be interested in it. A short scale bass? Hallelujah, something made for me.

I stuck about $250 into rebuilding that bass, including repainting the body since the original was coming off in big flakes. Still use it to today, will always be my main bass and it's all from someone else's real estate choice. That was the day I knew I'd have a Fender.


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:48 pm
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My 1993 Metallic Teal Green Telecaster is the first Fender I fell in love with.
It was supposed to be a White Les Paul.

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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:10 pm
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Almost all the bass players rocked a Fender Precision! 8)

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