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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No shit? Jesus, just one more reason to hate. There is nothing so wrong, so absolutely fucked up as a company that produces what are supposed to be musical instruments being run by a bunch of god damned lawyers.
Also, interesting how they don't lay the order on every "custom builder" out there that just copies the strat and tele shapes.
The whole god damned industry is incestuous. Makes me feel dirty.
Shane Speal said:Fuck Fender. Fender is part of Fender Musical Instruments Corp. which owns Gretsch. Gretsch threw a cease and desist order against Daddy Mojo because FMIC claimed they owned the GODDAMN RECTANGLE SHAPE of the Bo Diddley guitar. They claimed that every fucking cigar box guitar was a violation of their patent. BTW, I saw the patent for the Bo Diddley Guitar...it is so generalized, anything close to rectangle could qualify. A pure piece of shit.
Well, Daddy Mojo contacted his lawyers...and he contacted me. We showed FMIC the deep history of cigar box guitars and how they existed not just before the Bo Diddley patent...but way before Fred Gretsch was a twinkle in his daddy's eye.
Fender can blow me.
The fuckers laid the order on the one guy... Lenny... because he DARED to advertise in a fucking guitar magazine. It was the reason they were alerted to cigar box guitars. You wanna play a Fender Strat? Build your own and deny them your cash. HA HA HA !!!
BITE ME, FENDER.
Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) said:No shit? Jesus, just one more reason to hate. There is nothing so wrong, so absolutely fucked up as a company that produces what are supposed to be musical instruments being run by a bunch of god damned lawyers.
Also, interesting how they don't lay the order on every "custom builder" out there that just copies the strat and tele shapes.
The whole god damned industry is incestuous. Makes me feel dirty.
Shane Speal said:Fuck Fender. Fender is part of Fender Musical Instruments Corp. which owns Gretsch. Gretsch threw a cease and desist order against Daddy Mojo because FMIC claimed they owned the GODDAMN RECTANGLE SHAPE of the Bo Diddley guitar. They claimed that every fucking cigar box guitar was a violation of their patent. BTW, I saw the patent for the Bo Diddley Guitar...it is so generalized, anything close to rectangle could qualify. A pure piece of shit.
Well, Daddy Mojo contacted his lawyers...and he contacted me. We showed FMIC the deep history of cigar box guitars and how they existed not just before the Bo Diddley patent...but way before Fred Gretsch was a twinkle in his daddy's eye.
Fender can blow me.
All you guitar snobs (CBG, Brand X - Don't matter to me) need to get a grip -As was quoted earlier -
Much as I love talking, and as much as I love talking about guitars, I'd rather follow Frank's advice anyday: Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar!
I've got some of them all - expensive collectors items, piece of shit department store guitars from the 50's/60's, modern day $50 Walmart specials, and yes, quite a few CBG's I've built myself entirely by hand. The sound that's comes out of them is what is eventually the only important thing. And that sound is up to you - not the origin of the instrument or the "love that's put into it" when it's created or not.
It's the love that you as the player put into it, and the dedication it takes to become a better musician, that is the only important thing in the long run. The right player can make that cheap piece of crap, made without love guitar, sound like a million bucks and the vice versa is equally true (and a lot more common).
My 2 cents - take it or leave it
btw, FMIC backed down after Daddy Mojo bitch slapped them to the floor.
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