Tuesday, June 22, 2004

IMAGE OF THE WEEK (A Sunday feature, posted on Tuesday)





Jimi Hendrix, playing on his right-handed Fender Stratocaster.

This past Sunday's edition of The Buffalo News contained an article (linked by the photo) about the fiftieth anniversary of the Fander Stratocaster, the dominant guitar of the rock world which made its debut in 1954. Here is a list of prominent musicians and bands who have played the Stratocaster and used it to bend legions of pliable youngsters -- myself included -- to their will.

Here's to fifty more years of Stratocaster goodness.

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