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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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Hal Leonard The Fender Telecaster
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The original solidbody electric six-string!
The Fender Telecaster is regarded as the first commercially successful solid body electric guitar. Designed by Leo Fender at a time when the words rock 'n' roll were not even coined, the Tele is the senior member of a family of instruments whose sounds and looks helped revolutionize the world of popular music. This book relates the story of Telecaster guitars since 1950. Everything you ever wanted to know is explored through lots of color and black and white photos, charts and interviews.
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Warner Bros Masters of The Telecaster Book w/2 CDs
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Perhaps no other instrument in history has had such a profound effect on the history, style and development of popular music as the Fender Telecaster. This book provides deep insights into the history and uses of this fantastic instrument, including licks, solos, and techniques of all the great "Telemasters" and influences on blues, country, R&B, and rock. Also includes over 140 music examples in standard notation, tablature, and on the enclosed recordings plus hundreds of photos and more.
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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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