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With a Strat you can rule the world! Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything
Andy Welch
Wed 10 Apr 2024 11.23 EDT
How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life
I found the cheapest Strat in all the shops, says Nile Rodgers, speaking to me from Miami Beach, the very place he went trawling for what would later be regarded as the worlds greatest electric guitar. I traded in my Gibson Barney Kessel. The guy behind the counter gave me the Strat and $300 back. It was the real runt of the litter.
In a nod to the model played by his hero Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969, Rodgers stripped the guitar and painted it Olympic white. He then locked himself in his bathroom for three days woodshedding he calls it until hed mastered chucking, a dazzling new technique that blended offbeat strumming with the muting of fretted notes. Its a style made for the Strats rich percussive qualities and slick feel.
Armed with this new instrument, a 1960 model with a 1959 neck, Rodgers set about reinventing music. His unique sound became the gyrating backbone of disco he knocked out hits for Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and his own band, Chic. Other acts soon came calling, from David Bowie to Grace Jones, Madonna, Duran Duran and Daft Punk. Rodgers Strat can be heard on records that have sold hundreds of millions of copies, earning the runt of the litter not one but two nicknames: the hitmaker and the $2bn guitar.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/10/fender-stratocaster-turns-70
Iggo
(47,561 posts)A stitched together video of a bunch of different players, one at a time, playing voodoo child on their favorite strats on a small stage surrounded by a medium sized wall of Fender amps. Gotta be at least a dozen different players. Pretty sure Nile is in there. Hes hard to miss
lol.
I picked up my Squier and played along, and I was happy to realize about ten seconds of what I played could have been used in that ad. (Little victories, am I right?)
turbinetree
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