Format : Book
Dave Hunter: The Fender Stratocaster is filled with a vast collection of information and images covering the long and extravagant history of the Fender Stratocaster and the artists that have famously chosen this influential Guitar.The history begins back in the pre-digital and pre-information age at the Fender drawing bored of the 1950 s. With clear images and descriptions of early Guitars and the development of the Stratocaster from the Model BD and the Frying Pan lap steal Guitar.Also included inside is a huge collection artists profiles that swear by theStratocaster as their chosen instrument such artists include George Harrison Nils Logren John Mayer and many more.Watch and listern to John Mayer play and talk about the special edition BLACK1 Stratocaster here:Inside Dave Hunter: The Fender Stratocaster Randy Bachman expresses that The Strat was and still is the most recognisable image sound and pioneering guitar to ever make music.
SKU: HL.331976
ISBN 9781423436980. UPC: 884088236311. 10.0x10.0x1.386 inches. Tom Wheeler Foreword by Billy F Gibbons.
This third in a series of hardcover books joins the award-winning titles The Stratocaster Chronicles and The Soul of Tone by author/historian Tom Wheeler. In nearly 600 pages, The Dream Factory features hundreds of full-color photos of incredibly rare, collectible, and limited-edition handcrafted guitars. Learn how the Fender Custom Shop, originally intended to employ just two master craftsmen, grew into the most prolific custom instrument shop in the music industry. Features: * Foreword by Billy F Gibbons * More than 630 images illustrating the first master builders and their humble beginnings through the many changes up to present-day operations. Includes many one-of-a-kind custom guitar masterpieces and reproductions of acclaimed guitarists' instruments, such as Eric Clapton's Blackie, Jimi Hendrix's Monterey Strat, Stevie Ray Vaughan's No. 1, and many more. A must-have for all guitar enthusiasts! * Unprecedented view inside one of the music industry's most creative custom instrument shops, revealing how playable works of art are created * Fascinating interviews with the shop's founders, most of the first-generation Master Builders, all of the current Master Builders, other key craftspeople, sales representatives, artists' guitar techs, marketers, executives, guitarists, and many of the graphic artists, woodcarvers, jewelers, pinstripers, graffiti artists, pearl-inlay specialists, and others who have partnered with the Master Builders to create art works of stunning beauty.
