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I guess we all have it: seeing your favorite band on TV as a kid and going "I'd like to have one of those guitars one day."
So let's talk about making that promise to yourself a reality: buying the guitar you used to see on TV.
In my own case as a kid growing up in the eighties I saw a lot of chart shows with (Mimed) performances of well known artists playing whatever guitar they had lying around in that TV studio and in most instances it was a Black on Black Fender CBS series stratocaster.
Add to the fact that Sting was also seen clutching one on Live Aid and people like The Edge from U2, Andy Taylor from Duran Duran and Gary Kemp from Spandau ballet, bands that I really was into as a kid, were playing Black on black CBS strats with big headstocks and big fat Fender Logos it was my indoctrination into becoming a Fender man, this was what a Fender guitar should look like to me.
And last Saturday I finally made one of those Black on black strats my own.
Mine is a 1983 Squier SQ-series. But regardless of the fact that it's not really a CBS era Fender, it still has everything I loved about the Black on black strats I used to see on TV, the big headstock, the fat logo, the works. It was calling out my name when I saw it at the stand I bought it from. It sounds really good too, although my bandmembers think that it sounds too shrill compared to my white on black strat with Dimarzio pickups, so I might have to adress that, nevertheless, I finally have the guitar I used to see on TV.
So let's talk about making that promise to yourself a reality: buying the guitar you used to see on TV.
In my own case as a kid growing up in the eighties I saw a lot of chart shows with (Mimed) performances of well known artists playing whatever guitar they had lying around in that TV studio and in most instances it was a Black on Black Fender CBS series stratocaster.
Add to the fact that Sting was also seen clutching one on Live Aid and people like The Edge from U2, Andy Taylor from Duran Duran and Gary Kemp from Spandau ballet, bands that I really was into as a kid, were playing Black on black CBS strats with big headstocks and big fat Fender Logos it was my indoctrination into becoming a Fender man, this was what a Fender guitar should look like to me.
And last Saturday I finally made one of those Black on black strats my own.
Mine is a 1983 Squier SQ-series. But regardless of the fact that it's not really a CBS era Fender, it still has everything I loved about the Black on black strats I used to see on TV, the big headstock, the fat logo, the works. It was calling out my name when I saw it at the stand I bought it from. It sounds really good too, although my bandmembers think that it sounds too shrill compared to my white on black strat with Dimarzio pickups, so I might have to adress that, nevertheless, I finally have the guitar I used to see on TV.
Went through a similar thing with my Gibson V, but crappy anchor in the strap button killed that honey moon real fast..
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