Early 1940s: During World War II, Fender meets Clayton Orr “Doc” Kauman, a musician and the chief designer of electric guitars for Rickenbacker (based in Santa Ana and the first maker of ...
To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...
He said, “I was just cheeky enough to ask John for one of his spare guitars. I had my eye on a blue Fender Stratocaster that was lying in the studio, but John suggested and gave me the Gretsch as we ...
“And then each guitar tells its own story of his career… each guitar bears the scars of his playing, he played these guitars hard, he wasn’t a collector, these were his tools. “They were his means of ...