The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.
I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.
If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.
I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.
I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.
What I think is cool about Fender, and what originally drew me to them, was the Fender electric guitar headstock, which I've never seen on another ukulele. I feel like a rock star when I'm tuning it.
