Okay, follow the progression with me:
1. Leo Fender comes up with a new innovative design that would revolutionize the guitar forever (about the same time as Les Paul, but whatever).
2. Fender company starts making guitars. They are specifically designed to cut costs and be easier to repair but they are still hand made by honest to god luthiers and are pretty damned good instruments.
3. Utilzing new breakthroughs in CNC technology, low cost labor, globalization, and outsourcing, the Fender guitar morphs into a computer generated piece of plastic, thereby cementing the company's new status as a widget manufacturer.
4. Mobile phones? Really? http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com/?WT.mc_id=720m3
From this point forward, anyone that tries to extol to me personally the virtues of the Fender guitar will be mocked and scoffed at with extreme humor (I will not insert myself into conversations that others are holding).
Just a fair bit of warning - don't bring up Fender to me without being ready to hear me go off on a rant.
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So where the hell are these T-Shirts buddy-O?
On the other hand, I love Stratocasters. LOVE THEM.
I hate (or at least dislike passionately) these so-called "smart phones." If I wanna take a picture, I use my camera. If I wanna listen to music, I'll use my mp3 player, or even *gasp* a CD! If I wanna check my email, I'll use a computer. If I wanna make a phone call... hey, I'll use my phone!
On the other hand, I love Stratocasters. LOVE THEM. I think they are the greatest guitar ever made. Maybe even one of the greatest inventions of all time. I own several of them, including 3 made in USA.
I also think Telecasters are bitchin'. I've got a few of them, too. Classic styling, sleek & sexy curves. This is a design that hasn't been updated or improved in over 50 years because it doesn't need to be. Maybe it cannot be.
Fender guitars: nice to look at, nice to hold, nice to hear, and damn nice to PLAY.
I await your mocking and scoffing with mild trepidation.
:-)
Josh, if I call you a gear snob, will you build me one...or at least let me hang out and help with Nathan's? I'll let you talk on my new Clapton phone....it has a six string thing built in.....
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