Re: Strat question???


"Tony Meloche" <bombarde@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> BluesView wrote:
> > "Noah Roberts" <nroberts@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >>Guncho wrote:
> >>
> >>>What is with you people? Can't you read?
> >>>
> >>>He asked what strat he should get. Not what guitar other than a strat
> >>>he should get????????????
> >>
> >>Well, for one 'Strat' is commonly used to describe any guitar that
> >>follows a similar design to the Fender Stratocaster.
> >
> >
> > Incorrectly so. Fender Strat and Stratocaster are trademarks of
Fender. No
> > other company can legally use those names.
> >
> >
> >>Second, in my defence, the G&L strat is a strat in every sense of the
> >>word. It is what the Fender Stratocaster would have been if Leo Fender
> >>hadn't sold his company.
> >>
> >
> >
> > That is one of the oldest cliché's used in guitar newsgroups.
> >
> > BV
>
>
> It is also perfectly true. All G&L "Strat" designs up through the
> S-500 were designed from the ground up by Leo Fender (He died the night
> after completing design work on the S-500 - that's a fact). The models
> since then - Commanche, etc. - were designed by others though, yes.
>
> I have played a lot of G&L Legacys, and countless incarnations of
> the Fender Strat. Most of them were great guitars. But I own an S-500.
> It is Leo Fender's masterpiece, IMO. I did not recommend it to Pt,
> though, because it does come standard with the big frets.
>
> The Old Guy
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I'm not saying one is better than the other, but as I see it, Fender
Strats and G&L should be held on their own merits. Do you see what I'm
getting at? When talking to someone about guitars to someone calling a Strat
a Strat and a G&L a G&L and you are correctly and more thoroughly describing
two different guitars. You wouldn't call a Strat a Legacy or Comanche,
right? Just my thoughts.

BV


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