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3 unusual facts about Fender


Fender

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, a U.S. manufacturer of stringed musical instruments and amplifiers

Stagemaster

The Squier Stagemaster (discontinued) is a guitar made by Squier, which normally manufactures less expensive authorized copies of Fender's more popular guitars and bass guitars.

The guitar shares similarities with the HM Strat which was produced by Fender and discontinued in 1992.


Are You Ready for Freddy?

As well, Fender covers the novelty song "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?", which was originally a Billboard chart-topper for singer Patti Page in 1953.

allmusic's Eugene Chadbourne gave the disc high praise (4 stars of a possible 5), and said that Fender "can take on elements as disparate as Doris Day and Ray Charles and make a listener forget either of these icons even exist." He compared the playing on the record to "an incredibly hip, funky Tex-Mex band hired to play at a wedding."

At This Time

Burt Bacharach – synthesizer, piano, arranger, composer, flugelhorn, keyboards, vocals, producer, Fender Rhodes, oberheim, audio production

Broadcaster

Fender Telecaster, first known as the Broadcaster, a guitar made by Fender.

Burns London

The company and name were sold in 1965 to the Baldwin Piano and Organ Company of Cincinnati for the price of $380,000, small money in comparison to the $13 million paid at the time for Fender (where Baldwin were outbid by CBS).

César Díaz

His amplifiers are built in the Fender tradition; the Classic Twin-100, for instance, is a 100-watt two channel amp inspired by the Fender Twin.

Dear City

Stillwell creates music using keyboards, drum machines, and a Fender Stratocaster.

Deryck Whibley Telecaster deluxe

The Fender Deryck Whibley Telecaster deluxe is the signature guitar of Deryck Whibley, lead singer and guitarist of the Juno Award-winning Canadian rock band Sum 41.

Ducati Hypermotard

The more expensive 1100S featured a durable low friction diamond-like carbon (DLC) black coating to the front fork sliders, an Öhlins remote reservoir rear shock, the same Brembo Monobloc brake calipers used on the 1098, lighter forged aluminium Marchesini wheels with a red pin-stripe, Pirelli tires, plus carbon fibre fork protectors, timing belt covers, front mudguard/ fender and tail/ exhaust side panels.

Fender Amplifiers

This market was dominated by companies such as Marshall and Mesa Boogie—both of which had gotten started modifying Fender amps (the Bassman and the Princeton, respectively).

Fender California Series

Manufactured from 1997 to 1998 by Fender, the California Series Stratocaster, Telecaster and bass models were a joint effort between the company's factories in Corona and Ensenada.

Fender Esquire

On the single, "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, guitarist Michael Monarch played a single bridge pickup version of the Fender Esquire.

Fender Harvard

The most famous user of the Fender Harvard, in conjunction with a Telecaster guitar, was Steve Cropper, who said that he used the amp for most of the classic recordings made with the Stax house band Booker T. & The M.G.'s, including Green Onions and (Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay.

Fender Precision Bass

The original single-coil pickup was replaced in 1957 with a new split-coil pickup with staggered polepieces, connected in a humbucking mode; however, Fender never emphasized this, as the Seth Lover patent on the humbucking pickup had not yet expired.

Fender Prosonic

Designed by Bruce Zinky as a project for the Fender Custom Shop, the amplifier later had a non-Custom Shop production run at the Fender facilities in Corona, California.

Fender Starcaster

Trey Anastasio of Phish plays a custom Languedoc guitar that was originally designed after the vintage Fender Starcaster.

Fender Telecaster Bass

Victor Damiani, bass player on the first and second Cake albums, used a second version Fender Telecaster Bass on the Fashion Nugget album.

Fender Telecaster Custom

Following the Japanese re-issue, Fender moved production to its Ensenada facility in Mexico - the MIM reissues are now the predominate versions in Europe and the USA.

Fender tweed

In 2012, Fender introduced its first "Signature series"; Eric Clapton helped design the "EC" series of three amplifiers, including the Vibro-Champ, based on the five-watt amplifier "allegedly" used for the recording of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

Fender Vibratone

Today, many modeling devices, such as the Line 6 POD and Fender Cyber Twin, depict the sound of the Fender Vibratone.

FJB

Fender Jazz Bass, well known bass guitar produced by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Flying Pigeon

Like the Ford Model T, they are only available in one colour, black, except for the flare of vanilla at the fender tips.

Gibson EB-3

One notable player is Jack Bruce, who switched from a Fender VI to an EB-3 before the recording of Cream's Disraeli Gears.

I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart

In 2010, it was used as part of an advertisement campaign for a Fender edition of the T-Mobile HTC Magic myTouch 3G telephone.

Junk man

In his song "The Pretender", Jackson Browne imagines that "the junk man pounds his fender", referenced as a Los Angeles neighborhood sight.

Lap slide guitar

Steve Howe plays a Fender for certain songs or parts of songs such as Going for the One and And You and I.

Laurent Brancowitz

During live shows, Brancowitz often plays a Fender Bullet, although he has also used a large variety of guitars from Fender and Gibson.

Manic Hispanic

Examples include songs such as The Damned's "New Rose" retitled "New Rosa", and Eddie and the Subtitles' "American Society" retitled "Mexican Society." The Menudo Incident also contains a version of Tejano/country musician Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls", a bilingual hit when released by Fender in the 1970s.

Mary Jo Buttafuoco

The shirt had the "Complete Auto Body & Fender" logo of Buttafuoco's auto body shop in Baldwin, Nassau County, was a gift from Joey Buttafuoco to Fisher.

Matthew Seligman

Matthew has always played a black Fender Jazz bass as his first choice instrument, and in addition uses an Ibanez with a C-ducer contact mic placed on the neck, close to the neck/body junction, for his fretless work primarily with Thomas Dolby, but also Peter Murphy and, more recently, in an ambient collection recorded with Japan/Hong Kong based musician Jan Linton for the Sendai Earthquake relief fund, due to be released by Entropy Records in 2012.

Mikko Paananen

Currently Mige's rig consists of a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass with Seymour Duncan Basslines pickups, Fender Super Bassman heads, Fender Bassman 6x10 cabinets, various effect pedals, and an Avalon U5 DI preamp.

Nigel Gavin

His favourite electric guitars are a Fender Telecaster and an Ibanez 7-string, both of which he uses with a variety of effects.

Omega Tribe

With the roles of Hugh Vivian on guitar and vocals, Daryl Hardcastle on bass, Pete Fender on guitar and Pete Shepherd on drums, their first EP, Angry Songs, was produced by Penny Rimbaud and Pete Fender for Crass Records in 1982.

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

The American Bridge Company built the swing span on the fender in its open position, avoiding interference with river traffic.

Pig Bodine

A character called "Fender-Belly Bodine," presumably an ancestor of "Pig," appears as a seaman in Mason & Dixon.

Quinn Sullivan

Quinn plays Fender guitars and amps including Fender Stratocasters, Bassmans and Twin Reverbs live, but in the studio uses all different varieties of guitars, pedals and amps.

Robert Cray

The Robert Cray Custom Shop Stratocaster is made in the United States in the Fender custom shop and is identical to the guitars that Cray currently plays, while the Robert Cray Standard Stratocaster is a less-expensive model made in Fender's Ensenada, Mexico plant.

Rubella Ballet

The band was formed by former Fatal Microbes Pete Fender (Dan Sansom, guitar), Gem Stone (Gemma Sansom, bass) and It (Quentin North, also bass), with vocalists Annie Anxiety and Womble, and drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutton Coldfield, a former chef, later also the drummer with Flux of Pink Indians).

Soultone

Marshall, Fender, Gibson, and Vox all currently offer entirely hand wired re-creations of their vintage products, often at costs lower than boutique competition.

Starcaster by Fender

Although the range was withdrawn from the Fender website in 2007, it continues to be developed and is now sold through a variety of outlets, such as BJ's Wholesale Club, Amazon.com and Buy.com.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster

The project was delayed until 1990, when Fender presented Vaughan with three prototypes of his signature guitar on June 7, 1990, backstage at the taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

The Gig Bag

Chris road tested a Fender standard Jazz Bass and both Sabrina and Chris challenged each other in a busking competition to see who would get the most interest out of pedestrians on Elizabeth Street in Melbourne's CBD.

Wayne Hussey

His signature 12-string setup currently has a Fender Electric, a Vox Teardrop, an Ovation Acoustic, and a Taylor acoustic.

What Shall We Do Now?

The image of Pink is contorted and transformed into an array of objects relating to the materialistic nature of Pink's wall: a naked woman, ice cream, an MP-40, a hypodermic needle, a black Fender Precision Bass guitar, and a BMW M1.


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