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Post subject: Mr Keef Richards
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:42 pm
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Surely he has got to be the biggest guitar legend at the momment and is notorious for playing teles. Wonder why fender havent got him to do a sig model. :?


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Who does "Keef" play with? :?


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I was just kidding OP. I'm not sure but I think he has his tele type guitar built for him by a private builder. He and FMIC may not be able to reach a contract beneficial to both parties.


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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:27 pm
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Nobody would buy a KR model because he only uses five strings and the string gauges are all wrong. Except for him, of course.

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bluestube wrote:
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WHO :?:



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Keef doesnt want one, thinks they are stupid and everyone should have their own guitar apparently, heard that somewhere but not sure where.

I would love to see an Izzy Stradlin signature but he feels the same way.......ah well.

Thats why I have a 72 Custom RI, they both played them (6 strings though....lol)

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I bet Fender contacted him about a signature model years ago and he refused.

Seems John Frusciante (RHCP) did the same, when asked about the making of his own signature strat model. Though I don't think his guitar has any particularity to make it stand out well among "signature" instruments, besides his name, of course.

Fender Japan makes a sort-of Keef model, not so hard to see it in eBay.

Or get a 52ri, Baja, Road Worn in blonde, change the bridge, install a neck humbucker, get rid of the 6th string and tune to open G and rock along hehehe


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Fender Japan makes a sort-of Keef model, not so hard to see it in eBay.

hehehe[/quote]

Those are really weight beasts, imnsho. Never seen one under 8.5 lbs.


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cvilleira wrote:
bluestube wrote:
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WHO :?:

Oh right - THE WHO - That would be the shecter PT special!


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I have two signature Fenders but I could care less about the arist or their work. I bought the guitars because they work for ME! I could not say the same for the EC Blackie though... if I had one... I wish!


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billco wrote:
I tend to agree with Richards. Owning and/or playing a guitar with somebody else's name on it does not make you cool. It does, however, reflects lack of individuality and blind worship for another mortal, and does nothing to improve your playing ability.


The Gibson Les Paul is a signature model. I don't think people that play it were thinking of blindly worshipping anyone, but having a cool guitar.

The same for Strats and Hendrix (or the Strat player of your choice), despite it not having his name in the headstock. Not everyone that got a Strat after him got it because they wanted to copy the man. To me, personality is in the player not the instrument.


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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:11 pm
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You guys realize Sweetwater Music and the Fender Custom Shop are doing a tribute model of keef's guitar without his name on it:

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Hell, just read the discription. it hints at Keef at least TWICE:

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The Sweetwater '51 Nocaster Relic is the result of a direct collaboration between Fender's Custom Shop and our very own guitar gurus. The Sweetwater '51 Nocaster Relic draws its inspiration from the heavily modded Teles and Nocasters that followed the British Invasion of the 1960s and it likely sounds perfectly at home tuned to Open G. With a classic Tele pickup at the bridge with a Seymour Duncan '59 humbucker at the neck, the Sweetwater '51 Nocaster Relic is a sweet axe with a cool "skull ring" vibe.


buy it here, but hurry: It is going pretty fast!

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TeleCSSWBS

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As much as that is a cool looking guitar, I think Keith is right to insist that his name not be attached to a reproduction of Micawber -- or, for that matter, any one of the legendary guitars he plays.

I understand that the Les Paul is a "signature model," but I also think that the LP's nature has devolved over time. No longer is it a model endorsed by one man and played by many; the Les Paul is one of the two definitive rock instruments and is associated with its namesake only insofar as its name goes. Les Paul himself is not nearly as well known as the instrument that bears his name.

Keith would be the last person to care whether a guitar carries his -- or anyone else's -- name. I wager he judges guitars on one criterion: sound.


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