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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:48 pm
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Back in the days of B&W TV I saw someone playing a sunburst Strat probably on the Ed Sullivan Show. Don't remember who it was.......

Buddy Holly, old man :!: :wink:


Maybe . . . but I turned 4 the year he died. I suspect it was someone else a few years later.


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:53 am
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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:30 am
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The idea of buying/owning a guitar because that's what my favorite player used just never made sense to me...even from my earliest days of playing, I always knew it was the musician and not the guitar that made the sound. As I've said so many times on these boards and elsewhere, the reason Eric Clapton sounds like Eric Clapton is because he -IS- Eric Clapton...from his early LP days to the later and on going Strat years, he always sounded like Eric Clapton to me. There were a few times over the years, particularly in the early years, where I might ask "What's that sound?"...I remember asking my second guitar teacher about Paul McCartney's "No More Lonely Nights". I didn't know it at the time but it was David Gilmore who had done the lead...oddly enough I wasn't into Pink Floyd at all in those days so it wouldn't have mattered either way...the teach knew it was a "phase modulation pedal"...a phase or chorus or flange, but wasn't really sure exactly which. Either way, it's not like I -ever- did any research to find out exactly which pedal(s) Gilmore used...I picked up a DOD Chorus and later a Digitech Chorus/Flange and that's all I really ever needed to know.

That said, the moment I -knew- that I would someday own a Strat was when I played a mid 80's E series Squier at a (fairly) local guitar shop (long since out of business). By this point I had been playing for a good 6 or 7 years and had already owned a few guitars of various breeds...an old Memphis LP copy, which I still own, a Rhythmline Tele copy (serious piece of crap, but made for a great practice piece once I got into refinishing) and most notably, an old New Jersey Kramer...which I also still have. The Kramer was what put me onto the Strat "style" or shape...there was, and still is, a comfort to the contours that I've just never found in any other guitar. But it was that early Squier that showed me just what -I- could do with the sound of a Strat. Unfortunately I was flat broke at the time and wasn't able to buy it and it was a few more years before I finally got Ol' Blue...my '96 MIM, but yea...I still remember that Squier vividly...that was the day my life changed and I set my sight on a Strat - and along with Ol' Blue, I currently have 11 Strats of various lineage down in the studio. In fact, except for noodling with a couple of Tele's last year because of this Southern Rock band I'm in (only to find out that after 30 years of playing, I still just do NOT like Tele's), I haven't really played an electric in the past 18 years that wasn't a Strat. I've farted around with various brands/models over the years...Jackson, Ibanez, Dean, Schector, etc., in various guitars stores but nothing has ever sounded or played quite like a Strat. Again people think I'm nuts when I say this, but I would actually take a Squier Affinity Strat over the most expensive Jackson or PRS or anything else out there because I -know- what I can do with a Strat and I know how to get the sound(s) I want out of one.

As always, just my $.02.
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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:14 am
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well, with me , i knew i wanted to play something...just didnt know what. tried the bass first, because a friend played guitar already... but got bored quickly and wanted to do more with my instrument. got my first guitar, the baby V, and it was just awkward as hell for a beginner to try to sit around and strum on... so when i found that strat, not only did it look awesome, and have that same look as what a lot of my favorite guitar players were using, it felt amazing when i picked it up. after ten years, it still gets picked up almost daily. and it's not even a fender. it's just a beat up old piece of junk...but my hands know it well.

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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:45 am
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lameandcliche wrote:
it's just a beat up old piece of junk...but my hands know it well.



This is just my own personal opinion and I know there are people on this board who frown on such things but honestly...ain't nothing wrong with that at all! Another thing that I've said a good many times over the years is, the "best" guitar (bass, violin, piano, flute, trumpet....) is simply the one that gets played! There are folks around here who honestly can not comprehend this, but I'd rather have my "Latina" Strats (MIM's...love that Latina term, LOL!) over an MIA any day of the week...because that's what -I- like to play. In fact the GK pickup that I got with my new synth actually went on a Partscaster I put together a few years back (it was another refinish experiment)...I have a grand total of around $70 (including refinishing supplies) in that guitar and I'm playing the living crap out of her now!

Seriously...I know guys who own some really expensive instruments who just can't play...they own the guitars apparently just because they're expensive and/or they think it's some kind of fashion statement or something (I know people who do the same with expensive camera gear as well...couldn't shoot the thing straight if their life depended on it). Then I know a couple of older guys who play just the rattiest pieces of junk you can imagine, but they can make those busted, rusted old canoe paddles just sing like angels! I'd much rather see and hear a beat up old piece of junk, played in the hands of a loving musician -any- day over some twit with way too much cash to spend.

You play that sucker and enjoy her for what she is!
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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:37 pm
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stratmansteve wrote:
Maybe . . . but I turned 4 the year he died. I suspect it was someone else a few years later.

When did your family acquire color television? Sullivan would have been broadcasting by the time you turned 10.

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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:41 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
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Maybe . . . but I turned 4 the year he died. I suspect it was someone else a few years later.

When did your family acquire color television? Sullivan would have been broadcasting by the time you turned 10.


Ha! We didn't get a color set until I was 18 as my parents considered it a "frivolous" expense. I didn't think so . . . but I wasn't paying the bills.


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Post subject: Re: The First Fender You Fell in Love With
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:48 am
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stratmansteve wrote:
Ha! We didn't get a color set until I was 18 as my parents considered it a "frivolous" expense. I didn't think so . . . but I wasn't paying the bills.

Hmmm.....before 1968...Ed Sullivan....Too early for Clapton, maybe Hendrix, Al Jardine of the Beach Boys or Hank Marvin???

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