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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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.
Well 1 would actualy be Fender Acounting, 2 would be Fender radio services (he even made microphones, amp's and repaird phonograph's there) before he ever made a guitar so i'm not surprized that they picked up other current hypes like novelty phones and such. That's basicly and very sadly what large scale buisnis ethic's are about, following and making money of what's currently popular or needed among consumer target group's.
Leo Fender was a handyman and hobbyist/amateur electrician/inventor more than a real guitarbuilder or buisnissman (i bet he would love this site) but even he left the compagny after seeing the quality of his instrumentdesign's rapidly decline since the take over by CBS in '65 (Fender stayed with the compagny as aconsultant from the takeover untill he left). That's why he started "Musicman" wich are very high quality instrument's so i actualy think its sad that the name of a fellow inventor/antrapaneur/different thinker/innovator like all us Cigarbox freaks here at the Cbn is related to the massproduced, money orientated, 13 in a dozin, overpriced low quality for high dollar's guitars and any other hype they can get money out of mentality that the compagny represent's now. That was not what Leo Fender was about, the Fender board of director's should be hung for this i.m.o. *grumble* ...spoiling a great hard working man's legacy like that.
I own a Strat and a Tele, both cheap-o's but damn they sound good! The strat is an all stock Squier 50th anavercery(1996) and the Tele a stock Caliber (2005, my favorite elec. guitar) i play them both in a band with another guitarplayer who play's a late 2009 Fender strat trough the same amp's (Roland Cube 30's from the rehersal room) and the same setting's, i can honestly say the cheap-o's sound at least just as good if not better to me. Only real hearable difference i hear is the Fender's maple fretboard vs my Rozewood ones, the maple is more trebbly and i actualy hate that!! I like the warmer, fuler tones so i'll stick with my cheap-o-caster's!
Why buy a new Fender if i think my Squier kick's it's as? I dont need a Fender .....well, maybe one day if i can ever afford it i'd like to have a '52 Fender Tele (ironicly with a maple fretboard) with the baklite pickguard but hey, that's just my holy grail amung electric guitar's, just look at it like wanting to own one of the first Daddy Mojo Dolorosa Reso's in about 60 year's from now :)
Yeah, I don't want to give off the wrong impression. I didn't always think that Fender made a shitty guitar. If you read my initial post (which started off this whole firestorm), you'll see respect for Leo in numbered items 1 and 2.
It's not like the really built the thing. And I gotta admit, the guitard thingie app is kinda cool. I could see the Preacher at church getting on to me for playing it during service.
But, I feel ya on the fender hatin'.
I am NOT a Fender fan,
Peavey is da way to go.
Although as a bass player I dig Roscoe's ( just a few miles from me btw).
And Warwicks are just beasts waiting to be unleashed.
I would trade one of my daughters for a Corvette fretless.
But if it has a note higher than low G, I'll build my own , thank you very much.
Matt
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