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great documentry , thanks. I think the Stratocaster is probably the greatest artistic design of the 20th century.
“There are DOERS AND THERE ARE Instructors and then there are CREATORS” “ LEO FENDER WAS A CREATOR”! Before Leo Fender there was a Bixby Spanish electric guitar one custom built guitar for a special player by Mr Bixby!
OMG my name is Leo and I have a fender acoustic this is so cool
They should Really make a movie on him I’m sure it would be a hit. Something like the Founder, it was a great movie and it changed restaurants for ever! Well Leo did the same with music so any big screen producers reading this get to work 🤘🏻
It seems like Leo Fender was a much less ruthless man that Ray Kroc though... If the movie The Founder depicted Kroc accurately, he was a ruthless son of a bitch.
I understand how in business, people need to be sometimes... But Kroc takes the cake, all the way up to luring his friend's wife in to be with him instead.
No, the masses would find it boring
They should make a movie how he came up
@@Acadian79 so who could they get to play Leo Fender? I have no idea what kind of a guy he was or what his personal demeanor was like when he was talking etc. Would he be a Robert de Niro type, or would it be a Kevin Costner type?
but anytime that a movie is made they always get a lot of stuff wrong. like the infamous The Buddy Holly Story.like buddy's character playing that white 70's Telecaster and not the iconic Stratocaster.
The most important figure in modern popular music, without question.
Thank you so much Sandra. I began playing bass in 1969 at age 15 with a Mustang bass. I have had at least a dozen of his designs over the years and I have 2 Fender and 2 G&L basses today. What an amazing man he was.
This seems as good a place as any for me to personally thank Mr Leo Fender (and his associates, such as luthier Roger Rossmeisl) for providing me with the tools of my trade for much of my lifetime. (I'm in my late 60s now, and I started playing guitar in the mid 1960s when I was 8 or 9 years old!) I made my living, starting in my late teens, with a Fender Precision bass for at least 25 years; and always had another fretless bass around; plus a Tele and/or Strat, a Mustang (a blue 1964 one, which I've owned since 1975!), and usually a few others around at any given time, not to mention Fender amplifiers, of which I've owned most of the basic models at one time or another, from Champs and Deluxes to Bassmans and Supers. I currently have an Excelsior, which I like a lot!
Anyway, thank you Leo, your thoughtful and creative designs and American manufacturing truly had a direct, positive effect on my ability to make my living playing music, and for that I will always feel indebted to you!
(I suppose I could post a similar thanks to both the Martin and Gibson companies, as I extensively used their instruments over the same period, but not nearly to the extent that I used my Fenders; the ratio was probably around 8:1!)
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Man what an amazing person wow
Wonderful Reviews of 1 of Our Founding Fathers!! I really like this Video Sandra 🤩, U got a great Voice for Commentary, and I Enjoy Your Story, So much a pioneer of ( Never Learned How to Play GUITAR??!!) Wow U learned me Something!! Don't Worry I Won't Let it go to my Head 😹 TY so much and I am going 2 watch more and might Do some?? Thingy's!! Keep me Interested in more!! U R frigen Kool 🎉 🎉🎉 😸😼🙀
Kind words are always appreciated, thank you so much Ryan, and there's no reason for you to NOT be rocking out man!!!!
Genius
The enormity of what this man wrought is taken for granted! Today he would be worth billions. Musicians still seek out his earliest creations and treasure them, what other industry cherishes the earliest/oldest examples as standard? No one has supplanted his prominence! Thank you for the video and human narration.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!!!
You did a great job on this video!
Thank you.
Great video. Thank you
this is good stuff Sandra you really got down to business on this one.
Hey Nelson!!
Well done, thought I knew about about Leo but you added a few nice touches. When i was a kid the local Fender dealer had a great stock of new and used Fender guitars including a used Esquire that someone had painted green metalflake, this was about 66 or 67. Saved up and bought it for$62. It had the numbers 0050 stamped on the back neck plate. The pickup had the output of a humbucking, incredible sound.
62 dollars...oh man! GREAT for you!! Thanks for watching!
I like the stories of Leo being on health kicks. It's said he drank so much carrot juice he turned orange in the early 50s. In that way he reminds me of Steve Jobs. As a fender guitar player and air cooled Vw owner, I see the similarities of changable parts.
they were great. Leo made things so much better!!!!
Leo Fender is one of my heroes in life.
All hail Leo Fender!!!!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Thank you leo fender for your great creation.
Thanks for watching!!
The Strat and Tele went world wide as did his Amps . They are by far the most successful guitars , His amps were always clean sounding with some reluctant distortion , Marshal copied his Bassman circuit . Distortion is only acceptable on a lead guitar amp and otherwise unwanted . Distortion is simple . Just overdrive the preamp grid voltages .
Great Story Sandra!
Since Fender Stratocasters are my "Go-To" guitars, I had to give this one a thumbs-up!
I'm a bit of an authority on Fender instruments myself, so I can answer many questions about Fender guitars and amps.
Harley!! Thanks so sooo much for watching!!
ok, so why does a 5E3 tweed have such a desired sound compared to later Fender amps ?
@@green323turbo A good question! There are several reasons for this. Clarence Leo Fender was a frugal kind of guy having grown up in the depression era, and he carried a lot of that frugality with him up until the time he sold his company to CBS. Leo was always the one buying the components he needed to build his designs, and he always bought what he could find at the lowest price he could get it. Tubes, transformers, capacitors, speakers, you name it. If it was on sale, he bought it, and used it. For this reason alone, you see such a difference in components from Fender amps through different periods, even in Blackface models, which are still considered more desirable than the Silverface. Where you would find Mallory capacitors in one Fender amp, You might find Sprague capacitors in the same model amp a year later.
Speakers were also something that was a constant change throughout Fender amp history. Early Jensen speakers he used were the basic radio speakers available at the time. As he built more amplifiers, and made them more powerful, he needed speakers that could handle the load. It was at Leo's request, that Jensen began experimenting with heavier voice coils, and different cone materials to produce more durable speakers. Jensen's power ratings were limited however, so Leo also used speakers in the mid-50's from Oxford, Emminence, and in the 60's, from JBL. You'll find three different varieties of speakers in Fender amps through the 50's
The same went for tubes that Leo used. His earliest amplifiers were made with surplus military metal-cased tubes. As those supplies dwindled, he went to the best priced glass bottle tubes he could find. The brands varied, and this remained true up until he sold the company. I once owned a 1948 Fender Super Amp that had the original metal cased tubes in it, two 10" Jensen speakers, and some weird transformers. It was pre-tweed, covered in what some people called "cane" covering. It had a fantastic sound, but it was only 20 watts, so I sold it. I bought a 1969 Fender Dual Showman Reverb-Amp TFL500D to replace it, and that was a piggy-back 100 Watt amp with a huge cab that had two JBL D-130's in it. It was the same identical sound of that old Super, but a LOT louder!
Speaker development, standard components when CBS took control, cabinet materials and construction, and the nostalgia people attach to things that aren't made anymore. All these things contribute to that belief.
@@green323turbo By the way, A 5E3 is a Champ circuit. That circuit remained the same all the way into 1979. Just the components varied.
@@harleyhexxe9806 , The new Bass and Treble tone stack circuit Leo invented for the brown face and blackface changed the sound drastically by scooping the mids. Thats the reason a tweed with its simpler controls sounds fatter.
Great video, Sandra! \m/
Thank you so much!!!
fascinating. thanxs, Sandra.
Thanks for watching @Tony M!!!
Very kool Sandra, I didn't know much about Leo. Thankx N' Xheers! Likd 4
thanks for watching!!!
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Man, I would give my left arm for that Jazzmaster that Luther Perkins is holding @ 1:40! Thinking back on it, I better change that from an arm to a leg. I would need the arm. lol
I know right!! Thanks for watching.
Left arm? But how would you play it? Lol maybe left pinky toe instead?? Haha
@@Acadian79 Read the end of the comment.
But then you wouldn’t be able to play it.
Maybe consider your left 🌰 🥜??
Ahhh I didn’t read it all either
Great video.
Thank you.
Freddy taveres designed the strato shape?
He had a hand in helping, yes.
10:00 Jazz Bass, not Stratocaster. But you probably know that.
Ya i was hoping to see a Start too, because thats his greatest achievement , imo
Imagine being the guy that pulled out of the Fender company because didn’t seem profitable be like saying no to Microsoft 😂
right?
Actually, Fender was very profitable at the time Leo sold the company. During the time of Leo's ownership, FEIC was at its peak of profitability when he sold it. He sold the company because of health problems. He didn't think he would live much longer. After changing doctors and being cured of his affliction, he regretted selling the company for such a (relatively) small amount of money. As part of the deal with CBS, Leo still worked at the factory as a paid consultant and maintained an office there until his non-compete agreement expired.
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Thanks for watching!
I would love for someone to donate an electric guitar Fender or Les Paul to me. I am a local musician in Denver Colorado in need of a guitar, Amp, power cord and strap.
far out
BASS player here, where is George Beauchamp????
WiKI it. HE IS THE INVENTOR of electric guitars.
Electric bass came from someone else too.....
Even though Leo was not the first to make electric guitars, his companies have influenced the industry greatly. George and Leo’s designs were bold and started a wave of innovation.
I agree with those who point out the Rickenbacker is too often left out of the history of the guitar. While fine instruments, they just can’t compete with the sheer numbers of product sold, and famous players that have made their careers with Fenders striped on their shoulder.
Absolutely right ! I was just pointing historical facts, that people forget, i'll never bash Leo Fenfer. But now those companies all went to china....... with all the knowledge i have, i started to shop around for tools and wood.
My next BASS will be of my making.
Not telling you about 3200 USD instruments that out of the box you got to put 500 USD on it.. look on youtube..... be well
@@bertrandmajorik6589
I am a luthier with 30 years in the business. That is exactly why most of us got into the trade, wanting an instrument we didn't think we could afford, so we set out to make our dream instrument.
Good luck with your project.
Thanks man, been fixin my amps'n basses for 30 years, since i'm 17. Now I know what i want, not industry biased jugement.
Congrats on your 30 years of building dreams. Stay healthy.
@@bertrandmajorik6589 i really like your attitude. Im good with carpentry and wood. But couldnt build a guitar. If i wanted a talented luthier to make me a great guitar how much does it cost? I would never spend more than 3k on an instrument.