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Backbeat 50 Years of Fender (Book)
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The first Fender guitar hit the scene 50 years ago - and music hasn't been the same since! Featuring 200 color photos, this visual chronicle of the premier guitar maker charts every Fender model from 1950 to 2000, accompanied by a parallel timeline of musical highlights. The book celebrates 50 years of Telecasters, Stratocasters, Precision Basses, and other Fender instruments played by such artists as Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain and many others.
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Backbeat The Story of the Fender Stratocaster
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Everything you want to know about this American icon.
Introduced in 1954 and now recognized as the best electric guitar ever designed, Leo Fender's Stratocaster is one of the 20th century's most influential inventions. Following a complete history of this distinctive instrument's development, this book offers extensive portions of interviews with dozens of great guitarists like Dick Dale, Otis Rush, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, and many more. These musicians describe their first experiences with the Stratocaster, why they choose it over other guitars, the individual models they own, and playing techniques that maximize the Strat sound. This incredible full-color collector's edition features over 120 photos, including specially commissioned shots.
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Hal Leonard Fender - The Sound Heard 'Round the World (Book)
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No one changed the sound of guitar music more than Leo Fender. He so improved the clarity of the amplified vibrating string that he gave almost every style of music played on the guitar a means of sounding better. For 5 decades, finicky musicians made pilgrimages to Leo's R&D labs to discuss their musical frustrations and seek better ways for guitars to function. In the pages of Fender: The Sound Heard 'Round the World, you will witness this complex, dedicated man gain success as a true innovator. You will also follow the team of energetic, creative people who steered Fender to fame, men like Don Randall of Fender Sales; Forrest White and George Fullerton of Fender Electric Instruments; and Dale Hyatt and Tommy Walker, 2 of Randall's growing cadre of savvy, high-powered salesmen spreading Leo's ideas worldwide. This book is the largest collection of Fender historical photos, product shots, patent drawings, and advertising materials ever published. Whether you are a musician, a lover of Fender lore, an instrument collector or curious history buff, your search ends here for the ultimate and definitive book presenting the complete Fender story.
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Hal Leonard Guitars from George & Leo
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How Leo Fender and I Built G&L Guitars
Almost every guitarist knows the guitar companies Fender and G&L. Both these companies grew from the successful friendship and business partnership of George Fullerton and Leo Fender. George tells, in his own words, the amazing story of his celebrated collaboration with Leo that, for over 50 years, produced some of the world's most popular and treasured guitars and amplifiers, including the Telecaster, P Bass and the Stratocaster. This complete history of the Fender organization and the G&L Guitar company, reveals through rare pictures and first-hand accounts, an insider's view of this amazing success story and the friendship that survived for a lifetime. Includes a 16-page color section featuring George's rare guitars and prototypes. George Fullerton lives in Fullerton, California.
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Hal Leonard The Fender Stratocaster
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With a foreword by Eric Clapton.
Best-selling book by A.R. Duchossoir features everything about this American classic: its history, patents and schematics, pricing, and handy identification tips. Includes stunning new full-color photos, Custom Shop and Signature Series models, original ads, famous Strat artists, and much more. 72 pages.
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Hal Leonard The Stratocaster Chronicles (Book/CD)
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Celebrating 50 years of the Fender Strat.
The world's most famous guitar has a golden anniversary in 2004, and this official, authorized book/CD package offers the best photos, quotes, facts, and sounds to properly celebrate this achievement. From Buddy Holly to Jimi Hendrix to today's hottest players, the Fender Stratocaster defines rock 'n' roll for generations of fans and players.
Special features include exclusive photos of the world's greatest guitar collection, as well as a CD with musical examples of famous Strat sounds and styles hilariously performed by Greg Koch -- even spoken excerpts from the author's interviews with the Strat's beloved inventor, Leo Fender. This book also recognizes that the Stratocaster's deeper significance lies in the music that guitarists have created with it. You'll hear what Strat players have to say about their instrument, their music and each other. The Fender Stratocaster both reflects and influences popular culture worldwide. The Stratocaster Chronicles focuses on the people who brought it into the world, the designers and builders who refined it, and the players who have taken it from there. 280 pages.
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