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08-17-2007, 03:14 PM
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Leo fender did not actually play an instrument at all.
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08-17-2007, 03:44 PM
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08-17-2007, 03:49 PM
|  | ... you talkin' to me ?? | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: DEEP in the Heart of Texas | | Leo Fender's real name was not Leon Schwartz ,
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08-17-2007, 08:24 PM
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08-18-2007, 12:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | Actually, I think he played the sax. Ironically he built guitars and amps. |
08-19-2007, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Floral Park, NY | | | His first amp design was taken out of a radio handbook. |
08-20-2007, 08:06 AM
| | uncle petey? | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: outer banks, nc | | | He gained his knowledge of guitars from repairing Rickenbackers in his shop that was located down the street from the Rickenbacker factory.
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08-20-2007, 08:16 AM
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08-20-2007, 08:37 AM
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08-20-2007, 09:39 AM
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08-20-2007, 09:44 AM
|  | ... activating internal kill switch ... | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pig's Eye, MN (aka st. paul) | | | He was a devout shintoist. |
08-20-2007, 11:12 AM
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08-20-2007, 11:17 AM
| | uncle petey? | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: outer banks, nc | | | I heard he never slept and would eat roasted mice for dinner every evening.
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08-20-2007, 12:13 PM
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08-21-2007, 01:30 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Sorry to be serious for a minute - but I found this article interesting; Leo fans may know a lot of this already. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=808 |
08-22-2007, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | He designed the pickup for the Musicman while on a cruise ship, sitting at the Captains dinner table. He scribbled the diagram on to a napkin...........
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08-22-2007, 09:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmyplaysabass  Leo fender did not actually play an instrument at all. | Neither does Jim Bergantino.... or is that he doesn't play bass? I'd have to check on the old TB threads to confirm.
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08-22-2007, 09:32 PM
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08-22-2007, 10:14 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | Thousands of years ago into the future, an unholy act between 70 million angels of the purest kind and 70 million demons of the blackest kind took place that spawned Leo Fender.
He decided that both sides were guilty of a crime against nature and saught to develop an axe so powerful that none shall withstand it. The P Bass was born. He slew them all in a single blow and to this day watches over all diciples of the Axe.
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