This guitar probably left the factory around 1975, but it was put together earlier on by Philip Kubicki in Fender’s R&D department. It was likely made around 1971, and finally completed around ’75 as ...

“The CBS era [from 1965] was a hugely experimental time for Fender because they had the financial resources to try a lot of different things. They’d already hired Roger Rossmeisl [in 1962] and Phil ...

The Telecaster was inspired by the advent of television, which was the center of the media universe when the guitar was launched in 1951. Fender then added the Precision Bass that same year, and by ...

Innovation is about more than the people who create a product, or the companies that back them. The history of the electric guitar shows that the musicians who worked the instrument were as much a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As my column for Thursday suggests, the Fender electric guitar deserves ...