60 years of the Fender Stratocaster

[E. Bryant]

A musician buddy of mine forwarded me this ad for the 60th Anniversary Strat:

I don't play the guitar, but I sure appreciate those that do it well - and that is one hell of an awesome list of rock and blues greatness (with a bit of country and pop that does not suck thrown in for good measure). Whomever developed that list was at least more than a casual fan of music; one has to be just a bit of a geek to throw in songs like Bob Mould's "See A Little Light", the Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister", Mastodon's "Divinations", and Nirvana's "Endless, Nameless" to go along with some of the more obvious and better-known entries.

 

[JBD56]

Robin Trower - Too Rolling Stoned
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Pink Floyd (David Gilmore) - Comfortably Numb (greatest guitar solo ever IMO)

A lot of great music has been made with this guitar, just like the Les Pauls

 

[MCSO1357]

With the Strat, you could mention EVERY tune recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimmie Hendrix and most by Eric Clapton (he started with a Les Paul).

 

[427Cobra]

Fender Precision Bass #113 is in my closet, my dad was a studio musician for MoTown Records, as cool as the Strat is the Precision and Jazz Bass are no slouches

 

[dfitzgerald]

I wouldn't part with either of my 2 Strat's. They are a fun guitar to play but hard to master.