| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Gordon Poirier
WMOIS::POIRIER
dtn 264-3392
(508)249-2039
I picked up the book, titled "Fender the inside story" by Forrest
White. Mr. White was VP of Fender. This book looks at the startup
of the Fender co. So far it's looks to be a great source of history.
Anyone else purchase this book or any recommendations on other Fender
books which make for good reading?
Gordie
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| 2956.1 | Me, Too! | COMET::MESSAGE | My name is Bill & I'm a head case... | Wed Jul 27 1994 11:53 | 17 |
Gordon:
Yep, I bought it! It's not too bad, but some of the grammatical and
punctuation mistakes made it seem as thoguh this was a hurry-up
publishing job, don't you think? (As an aside, I've got a large
collection of music-industry books - almost all of them butcher the
language and the rules of punctuation. Do those publishers think
that all musicians are semi-literate slobs that buy books that need
lots of pictures? 8^)...)
Other books come from Hal Laurent publishing. You cannot but these
direct, but must find a retailer. The books include, "The Fender
Book", a good overall history, "The Fender Bass", history, etc.,
of the various basses, "The Stratocaster Book", "The Telecaster
Book", and several others. Most of the really large bookshops will
sell these, as well as the occasional music dealer. My preference
is the book shops, since they'll discount more often.7\
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| 2956.2 | TAMRC::LAURENT | Hal Laurent @ COP | Wed Jul 27 1994 11:59 | 9 | |
re: .1 > Other books come from Hal Laurent publishing. Wow, I didn't know I was a publisher! :-) Actually, I suspect you meant Hal Leonard publishing. -Hal Laurent | |||||
| 2956.3 | LEDS::BURATI | Human Crumple Zone | Wed Jul 27 1994 12:59 | 16 | |
I've seen many of those at Barnes and Noble. I have them all but this
new one. I saw it at a store and looked through it. Looks pretty good,
even if it turns into a promo for G&L in the end. I was shocked to see
those pictures of Leo in his last year with us mortals. In 1989 he
looked about 70 (though he was older). By 1991 he looked like he was
110.
In "The Fender Book" I found a photo from the early 50's of the guy
whose initials are penciled in on the neck of my '54 Tele. That was
pretty cool. I'd like to get this one and all the books I can on these
companies, though for $25, I expect it to be proof read before going to
print. I found some glaringly bogus dates in the copy I browsed through
(like a photo caption that says "1859"). It makes you wonder how many
errors there are that aren't so glaringly obvious.
--Ron
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| 2956.4 | Okay, Who Done It? | COMET::MESSAGE | My name is Bill & I'm a head case... | Thu Jul 28 1994 09:10 | 6 |
Re. - .2:
Okay, who put the wrong characters into my reply?! I *know* that
*I* typed in "Leonard", but....... 8^)
Bill
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| 2956.5 | Just kidding, of course... | TAMRC::LAURENT | Hal Laurent @ COP | Thu Jul 28 1994 09:40 | 5 |
re: .-1 Hey, maybe your personal name is more appropriate than you think? :-) :-) -Hal | |||||