Hey guys, Saw an old concert video of Primus and it reminded me that Larry Lalonde used to play a beat up old seventies strat in his early days with the band.
Anyways, as a thought, what cool long time strat users do you think should have their Strat wielding careers imoratlized in Fenders Artist Series?

My votes, 1. Mike Mcready 2. John Frusciante

Hmm. Maybe we should just make our own, eh guys.

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How about an Adrian Belew Strat with all the bells and whistles? Or a re-creation of the Frank Zappa strat given to him by Jimi Hendrix?

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I'd love to see that beat up old strat of Walter Trout's....

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I agree. Unfortunately, Fender have missed the boat on that one. Walter Trout is signed to French guitar maker Vigier:

http://www.vigierguitars.com/page/fiche ... lettre=All

I have a vague memory of seeing a Vigier version of his knackered Strat, but I don't seem able to find it just at this second...

Still, one explanation for "Artist Series Strats Fender DOESN'T Make", as the OP put it...

Cheers - C

John Frusciante should probably have one, except for the fact that there's nothing really special about the Strats he plays. They're all pretty much stock.

As far as I know at least.

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Mick Mars strat

That'd be awesome.

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-Peavey Predator/Dean Evo/Epiphone DR150/Gibson Slide (much older than me).

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Hmmm. Very disappointinge. I wonder when that deal was made. The last time I saw Walter - two, maybe three years ago - it was definitely his Strat, not a copy. I was close enough to see that.

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Again, I agree. There was an article about him in Guitarist magazine some time last year. I think that might have been where they showed the Vigier signature relic guitar - though the article also showed pics of him posing with the Strat too. I wonder if it's another example of the situation Nikininja described where an artist officially endorses one maker but actually uses the gear of another?

I'm away from home: I'll try and remember to look out that magazine piece next week...

Cheers - C

His main guitar is a '62 strat in 3-tone sunburst. The only modification is a set of seymour duncan antiquities. I'd love to see a frusciante strat, but i highly doubt it would ever happen. The closest thing you can get nowadays is an American Vintage '62 reissue.

thank you some one is showing mike mccready love i to have wanted fender to make a mccreaddy strat as well as a frusciante strat im planing to make a reliced mccready strat modeled after his stock 59

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As it's been said- Mike Mccready's 1960 Strat is bone stock and as are all of Frusciantes guitars. Their signature models would be reissues with their signatures on them.

..Ron Wood has some cool strats, but he'd also probably just leave it alone.

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They make to many of those things now Enough already all we need are the Pro series Strats of high quality. Some name on a guiter does not make it a good guitar and any Fender that a pro plays that has been modded can be modded by anyone the same way the pro did it.

I just have a hard time with all these signature guitars. I just dont understand the facination with having to have a guitar like someone else just becasue the are a pro whom you admire. It does not mean its going to sound like theirs.

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the reason id like to see mccready and frusciante series strats is for the respect of them as the two best rock players of the 90s grunge scene if i make a mccready strat for my self it will be for fun and show not gigging i like to sound like myself live not some one else

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I guess Adrian Belew's close ties to Parker guitars (as he says in interviews, if you want to take out a second mortgage you, too, can experience the AB signature Fly) would put paid to the notion of a signature Fender. He still loves strats, though, and no doubt has plenty of them.

I find it difficult to come up with "iconic" instruments that seem worth the tribute, but one I'd love to see would be Gilmour's #0001 strat. That's strat perfection right there, in my opinion, but I guess something rather similar could be ordered from the Custom Shop ( and probably is on a regular basis)... I certainly would if I had the cash.