I saw Alice Cooper puke in the back of a VW bus in the 70's.
Too much chicken?
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Some guy just told me
- Thread starter tycobb73
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Too much chicken?
Once upon a time I took all my instruments to this one stringed instrument repair shop.
The guy seemed knowledgeable & claims he used to work for Chuck Levin.
Well, cut to when I brought in a Mexican Fender. He looked me right in the face & asked quite seriously, "Why do you waste your time with these imports?!".
I haven't been back to his shop, but he also went out of business soon after.
The guy I take stuff to now is a gigging player in a local band & he uses a MIJ Ibanez.
The guy seemed knowledgeable & claims he used to work for Chuck Levin.
Well, cut to when I brought in a Mexican Fender. He looked me right in the face & asked quite seriously, "Why do you waste your time with these imports?!".
I haven't been back to his shop, but he also went out of business soon after.
The guy I take stuff to now is a gigging player in a local band & he uses a MIJ Ibanez.
The prize was the '80s.
And no, you couldn't return them, though some of us tried.
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Eeyew! You do know that Alice bit the head off of a chicken during one concert? With that in mind this REAL photo is hilarious:
Hey, I lived through the 50s And my response would be f-off.
Go read the Gruhn book, you'll find a lot of production inconsistencies or *'s with every brand at any given era.
F Series - CBS Era 1965 - 1976
After the CBS purchase of Fender in 1965, the factory switched to a new serial sequence with numbers that continued the same general format used prior to the takeover. These are generally referred to as F series due the large Fender branded F on the neckplates of the era. This period also saw a switch from the orginal four-bolt neckplate of the '60s to a three-bolt neckplate in just one example of cost-saving costs introduced under CBS.
I also lived through the seventies and bought this ‘70 model in ‘73. I still have it.
EDIT: After checking several sites, it seems what I thought was a ‘70 model may have been made somewhere between ‘70 and ‘73. The serial trackers seem to be unreliable though with a few of them contradicting each other.
After the CBS purchase of Fender in 1965, the factory switched to a new serial sequence with numbers that continued the same general format used prior to the takeover. These are generally referred to as F series due the large Fender branded F on the neckplates of the era. This period also saw a switch from the orginal four-bolt neckplate of the '60s to a three-bolt neckplate in just one example of cost-saving costs introduced under CBS.
I also lived through the seventies and bought this ‘70 model in ‘73. I still have it.
EDIT: After checking several sites, it seems what I thought was a ‘70 model may have been made somewhere between ‘70 and ‘73. The serial trackers seem to be unreliable though with a few of them contradicting each other.
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