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Post subject: John Frusciante Signature?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:46 pm
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John Frusciante is the BEST guitarist in the WORLD and teh best user of FENDER STRATOCASTER!! I LOVE YOU JOHN.....


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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:57 pm
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John?


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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:09 pm
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That's 2 threads you have on the same topic now man.


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:14 am
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What? How are you? :wink:


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Post subject: Re: John Frusciante Signature?
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:44 am
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Yep, true.

Sorry about resurrecting this old thread but since Flea has two signature basses bearing his name John Frusciante also deserves an Artist signature set based on his two favorite axes: the battered sunburst '62 Strat and the sunburst '63 Custom Tele.


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Post subject: Re: John Frusciante Signature?
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:28 am
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chromeface wrote:
Yep, true.

Sorry about resurrecting this old thread ...


I think in boosting an 11 year dead topic "Resurrecting" is a bit of an understatement ;-)

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Post subject: Re: John Frusciante Signature?
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 6:36 am
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Old thread, but since it's back on the first page I guess it's alive...

Signature models aren't about "honoring deserving players". They're about "business".

Tom DeLonge? It wasn't because he's a guitar hero. It was because he used to have a bunch of rabid fans, and because the specs he wanted sounded like they might have appeal to people who don't care if there's an artist's name on it.

I love the hell out of Jimmie Vaughan. But he got a signature to help insure he'd let them continue to make the SRV Sig. Plus he was satisfied with a MIM, that has specs that appeal to lots of people that don't care about the name.

Flea is still hot. And his basses have unique features that appeal to people who don't care about him.

John's kind of withdrawn from the public eye. And other than wear and tear he plays stock guitars. Hardcore fans can just buy a Relic and be pretty close.
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On top of that, John has expressed a lot of disdain for business and commerce. He doesn't $@!&# out his name. Walked away from the Peppers and went into seclusion for years, because his artistic satisfaction is more important to him than milking a cash cow.

If he wanted to, he could snap his fingers and pedal makers would fall over each other to make a signature "Under the Bridge" compressor.

He serves his muses -- he doesn't serve mammon.

Even if Fender thought a Frusciante Sig would sell, I doubt he'd let them do it.
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Edit: oh, the filter won't pass "$@!&#"? How about "He doesn't prostitute out his name."

Another edit: I'm not calling other artists who have signature gear prostitutes. (And personally, I don't think being a prostitute is necessarily a bad thing.)

I just get the impression that John thinks that way. I picture him getting angry when he hears Beatles' tunes in TV ads. The type who thinks music is sacred and personal, that you shouldn't exploit it. Probably feels tortured and guilty that music made him a multimillionaire. (But consoles himself that he made the music he wanted to make for pure motives, and it's not his fault people threw $$$$ at him.)


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Post subject: Re: John Frusciante Signature?
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 12:14 pm
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There are always exceptions with Fender.

The Ike Turner Strat was a labor of love by Mike Eldred to honor a friend and personal guitar hero. (A very significant figure in the Strat's legacy, but Ike's behavior certainly tarnished any commercial appeal of name.)

But the investment in those was minimal -- just normal Time Machine reissues with a signature and a CD. Eldred didn't expect it to make a lot of money for FMIC.


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