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.
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.
I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.
I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
Casey came over and apologized. I guess he made a mistake, and it's very easy to make a mistake when you're running three-wide like that. It's pretty intense. I'd say he slipped up and made a mistake and I guess we're lucky the damage isn't worse than what it is. These front fenders are so sensitive. We did get our right front fender banged a little bit.
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
We won the race without brakes. The master cylinder was out, the hood was gone along with the rear fender. The car was really a mess, we got bumped around a lot going to the front. But as they say, we were just racing. A regular Saturday night at the speedway.
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.
Bubba (Stewart) was in front of me and I followed for a lap and a half and then made a clean inside pass on him. I heard his bike revving wide open and saw his fender coming closer and then suddenly he crashed. It can't be fun to hit the mat as many times as he has this year. I think it comes down to learning to be patient.
I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.
I did the painting on your new front fender, and Mike and I put the new (solid chrome) wheels and floorboards on. And I'm gonna take the bike for a long ride to make sure everything's OK before we give it back to you.
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
The good thing about Bristol is some bad stuff can happen but you're not at an aero track where if you mess the fender up you're going to be done for the rest of the day, or if you tear the side off of it you're for sure done with it. You can rip both sides off of it and rip the nose off it and you can still win the race.
We developed the design and the concept to sell, and we were pretty close to selling it to Fender, ... But they leapt back out at the last minute because they had so many other companies they bought, so we just decided, 'I guess we're going to make them ourselves.' So that's what we're doing. They're great guitars, they look beautiful, sound great.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
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