The Untold History of Leo Fender and The Greatest Fender Guitars
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This is, to my extensive knowledge about Fender,the best docu on Leo Fender and his company. Thank you,young lady. Excellent work.
Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you enjoyed this episode it is one of my favorites and I loved making it!
Thank you for the fantastic history of Leo Fender.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the story as much as I do!
I'm 56 and I've only played Fender guitars. I've owned Gretch and Gibson Les Paul's and Rickenbackers I ALWAYS GO BACK TO Stratocasters and Telecasters which are the best guitars in the world!!!! You made this story so enjoyable! Thank you young lady for making this story so enjoyable! I'm SO HAPPY I subscribed!!! I hope all will enjoy these stories as much as I did!
This should get a Part 2, talking about the legendary and still desirable tweed amps of the 50's, and continuing up to the blackface amps of the 60's, as well as the story of the Stratocaster, the guitar pictured on Leo's tombstone.
It’s coming!!!
That was quite a story about Leo Fender. I did know a great deal about him and all of his inventions pertaining to his guitar as well as his amps especially the Bassman which influenced James Marshall to create the Marshall amp. Your detail was stellar and very thorough on the beginning of his career. I lived about 10 minutes away from his shop when I was very young in La Habra, but I had no idea what the heck was going on. However, when living there I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show on a B&W television in 1964.
I know it's a "roots" story, but no mention of G&L, Leo's best guitar designs of all, seems like an oversight.
Not to mention that there was nothing "untold" that has not been published before.
Great video. Thank God for Leo Fender. Stratocasters are a must for any eletric guitar player.
@@ShawnShipstad As are Telecasters.
No need for a Strat. Maybe another Tele....
@@Thomas-xs2kq , A traditional solid body telecaster and a Tele Thinline. Who could ask for anything more? Tab Benoit plays a battered old Thinline and it's basically his only guitar. He really rocks out on that thing!
@@Thomas-xs2kq , Some of my favorite roots rockers play Strats, especially for slide guitar, Ry Cooder and Sonny Landreth being prime examples. They use hardtail strats anyway, and I never much cared for a vibrato bar anyway unless it's Jeff Beck or Jimi Hendrix manipulating it!
Fantastic info for all guitar inthuseist.
Thanks for this great work . We'll be
watching for more ROOTS
Nicely done very good documentary
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you! You too!
Try to make a lesson about Jim Marshall Story its interesting also about his Handicap disease as a kid and he was a drummer that fell into making guitar amplifiers based on the fender 59 bassmen with another Audio amplifier Engineer he met. The side company PARK also he made for reasons. Both Leo Fender and Jim Marshall never thought they would be making guitar amplifiers and guitars, they just fell into it which is very strange lives they lived before and during.
I’ve made a note about this thank you for the suggestion! ❤️🎵
WooHoo, well done. THis guitar geek really enjoyed your presentation. Keep on keeping on.
Thank you for posting.
Well done. I’ve read quite a bit about Leo and the Fender legacy, but I didn’t know about many of the details you presented. Cool that your dad knew Tom Walker. I subscribed because of this video
Thanks so much for the kind words and welcome to the Roots Music History family here!! ❤️🎵
Great info well conceived by a gracious spirit.....
Leo was from my hometown 🎼🎸🤘🙏 Great job once again! 😊❤️ Keep going!
How cool is that! Have you been to his grave sight ?? I never thought I’d say this about a headstone but I absolutely love his headstone
@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY I am a life long Songwriter guitar player. Yes Ma'am, he is Legend to our kind haha. A beautiful stone indeed 🎼🎸🙏😊 Really enjoying Your Channel very much. You must also play? Someone who actually cares about this music in 2024 is inspiring 🎼🙏🎥❤️
I'm a big fan of fender guitars and Leo Fender. Thank you for doing this story!!
As I sit here watching this I'm assembling a Fender inspired guitar, surrounded by an Esquire, a Stratocaster and 2 Telecasters, a Rumble bass amp and a Fender Mustang amp, wearing a Stratocaster t-shirt, one of 8 I own, and wearing a Fender hat. As I am a walking ad campaign for this great company, thanks for a really great video.
I love this!! I should have put my fenders in the background for this episode too now that I think of it! Thank you for being here and supporting music history!
@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY You are welcome, you do a terrific job and I really enjoy your channel. I forgot to mention I also get an email and text everyday from Fender showcasing their products and special offers. Anyway, great work again.
Do you play? I just realized you have done some "gear" type historical videos like SRV.
Very cool video! 👍
Thank you for this, im a big Leo Fender fan❤
That was really wonderful and really well told. It’s kind of crazy not to mention G and L after music man, thank God Leo was able to keep going. But this whole story during the 20, 30s and 40s was so in-depth, it was really great. Thanks so much for this.
Pure genius. The telecaster near perfection right out of the gate, then its super sexy sister the stratocaster- most gorgeous instrument ever made IMHO
Great informational and entertaining video. Thank you
Thank you so much I’m so glad you enjoyed it ! I love this story so much ❤️🎵
Thanks a lot knowledgeable Lady!
Absolutely brilliant work. The details and delivery are amazing. Bravo 🙌🏼🎸🎶
Kudos! Great podcast!
Great documentary on Leo ❤
Doc Kauffman was a mensch, a prince of a guy and humble as hell.
this is awesome 😎👍 thankyou
Thank you for being here and supporting music history !
I’ve been playing/buying/selling/collecting and admiring Fender Basses for over thirty years. I’ve also read a few books on the man behind it all. That said, your video miraculously percolated up into my daily feed much to my eagerness. Very informative and refreshing video here, though a bit surprised there was no mention whatsoever of the famed Precision Bass.🤔
As always great show
Thank you so much!!
A very good bio of Leo .and there is certainly a lot more that can be said about the man and the company. I understand you want to streamline the story as much as possible.
but an even more important Fender innovation that literally changed the world of popular music was that
Alongside mass producing the worlds first solid body electric guitar;
Leo Fender INVENTED the electric Bass guitar as we know it.
along with a whole range of ever improving guitar and bass amplification equipment and then came the stratocaster and many other instruments.
if you havent seen them i would highly recomend taking a look at
FIVE WATT WORLD's Short History of... videos on the Tele ,Strat and Precission bass.
You have some cool videos, Keep it up! 🙂👍
The P-bass was absolutely a gamechanger, although Leo's bass amps weren't, not for bass guitar anyway. From Tweed to Blonde to Brown to White to Black (and even Silver) the Bassman amps are revered for great guitar tone, or being tweakable/modifiable to deliver it, but they were never very popular for bass. Ampeg kind of stole the thunder, for bassists who could afford it....PS, Dumble began by custom-modifying Bassman heads for select guitarists, but prior to David Lindley acquiring one, he was playing his famous lap-steel solos for Jackson Browne through a blackface Bassman head being overdrive by an FET booster circuit.
Good job! 4real mon 🤘
So good it need a Part II about the Strat, Part III about Fender Amps, and Part IV about the Fender Rhodes organ. I love me my Strat and my vintage Silverface Champ amp. This man did so much for the guitar world, and he didn't even play guitar!
Very good documentary. Nice and clearly spoken.
I didn't loose interest as she told the story great job.
I have a asat g+L USA Leo fender signed electric guitar and a music man sterling California real bass and I believe that faith made this happen for me and I have to admit that Leo fender is the guitar for the professional world over absolutely he is about family and helped me and so many others
A wonderful story about an amazing man. Life is full of twists and turns and you can't stop believing. I know there are lots of untold stories about the actual development of amplifiers and the strat that are still with us today. I would like to hear about them as well. Thank you for the video. Great job I am subscribed.
Where would be without Leo! Great job. Millions of people love to plug in and "spank the plank."
Great summary. BTW, I felt legally obligated to comment. SMILE.
Hahaha thank you!! I never really wanted to do a video podcast and always wanted it to be audio only but everyone kept pushing me for video! And I still get kind of nervous in front of the camera lol. But I think I’m getting better! 😜
@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY, the most important aspect of storytelling is *pacing*. Breathe. Short pauses in the right places add weight and gravitas; but don't forget to leave places for the audience, and yourself, to laugh, or at least chuckle.
An amazing documentary (in the best sense) full of relevant and interesting details. Did Leo develop / prototype the pickups for his iconic basses?
Another great show. I had a 79 Sunburst Strat back in my band days on Long Island with the Stanton Anderson Band. Sam Ash sold them for around 700. Wish I never sold it.
Would love to hear the story behind Hartley Peavy
How about Ken Parker ?! He’s a fantastic Luthier and wonderful educator. My 99 Parker Fly classic is incredible. The tone can’t be touched. This guitar is a gem. Would love to play one of Ken’s Acoustics .
Awesome!
Leo Fender couldn't play guitar, really didn't know much about them. But he was smart enough to surround himself with people who did. He was always asking musicians he knew about what they wanted in a guitar---it was this input that lead to the Stratocaster
Amazing
Awesome video! So good.. You Awesome too!!
Santa Maria is around 150 miles from Fullerton.There were many cities far closer to Fullerton than Santa Maria. Long Beach, Los Angeles and even Santa Ana were larger than Santa Maria.
I definitely meant Santa Ana hahha!! Yikes! 🙈🙈
Among other things, I find it interesting that a man named Fullerton was so instrumental in the success of a company based out of Fullerton, CA.
Great video!
Great points but Santa Maria has never been a big city. It’s a coastal town a couple of hours from Anaheim.
I always get Santa Maria and Santa Ana mixed up!! 🫠🫠
VERY COOL 😎
Great Video. How come you did not mention that the Fender Stratocaster was available in 1954? Leo Fender & George Fullerton created G&L Guitars after Leo Fender sold the Music Man Guitar Company to Ernie Ball. I own a few Fender Stratocaster Guitars as well as a G&L Asat Bluesboy Classic Guitar. Leo Fender's second wife was Phyllis Fender. In 1934, Fender married Esther Klosky, and the couple remained together until Esther's death from cancer in 1979. Fender remarried in 1980; his second wife Phyllis became an Honorary Chairman of G&L Guitars.
It is important to note that the time period inbetween Pearl Harbor and the end of the war would have been hellish for a musical equipment company: it wasnt just food and clothing that was being publicly rationed, so that soldiers at war wouldnt be deprived, but virtually all electronics component manufacturing was similary turned towards the war effort. Getting parts to build anything deemed by givernment to be of lesser importance from scratch must have been extremely difficult. Radio repair and providing public address systems might have been a notable exception because electronic communication to the public, both over the airwaves and in the form of political speeches and rallies to sell war bonds and keep morale up, were extremely important. The givernment had a program whereby certain vacuum tubes and parts for maintaining and repairing peoples radios were still available, but supply would have been tight, and obtaining sufficient parts to build amplifiers frim scratch would have been extremely difficult. Even magnets for making speakers and pickups would have been in short supply. I think it's a safe guess that Leo sustained himself financially on radio repairs and PA system rentals during this time. At war's end, however, the electronics companies turned their massive production cpabilities towards building components for the consumer electronics market, and there would have been a lot of war surplus parts available as well. Consumer demand, formerly pent up for nearly 5 years, absolutely EXPLODED because people had made, and saved up, good money frim working in the defense industry but hadn't been able to spend it on any type of luxury goods while the war was on. Prohibition had been repealed, and distilleries and breweries were producing an ocean of alcoholic beverages. People wanted to drink and to celebrate, to go out to nightclubs and have a good time, and that called for music, *LOUD* music, and especially guitars that could be heard over the saxophones and trumpets of a big band or jazz group; or especially, in Leo's Bakersfield-adjacent area, loud country music played to loud oilfield roughnecks. Leo was well positioned, in the right place at the right time. Like a song title from long ago: "bright lights, thick smoke, and loud loud music"!
PS, I had mentioned magnets above; in the 1920s and 1930s, powerful permanent magnets were virtually non-existent and most speakers were made with "field-coil" electromagnets that required a voltage from the amplifier's high voltage power supply in order to energize the electromagnetic coil of the speaker and make it work (an expensive and heavy coil of copper by the way). High strength "Alnico" permanent magnets were developed in the late 1930s or early 40s, but being made from aluminum, nickel, cobalt and copper, all of which were critical for the war effort, those magnets were rarely if ever seen in any consumer product until after the war's end. It must have been extremely difficult to obtain even the smallest of magnets to use for building guitar pickups while the war was still on. After the war, however, permanent-magnet speakers could be built more cheaply than fieldcoil speakers, and they were lighter and didnt require being tethered to a high-voltage power supply in order to function.
One other thing. There has always been a great deal of confusion about George Fullerton and the county of Fullerton where the original Fender production facility was located in California. Total coincidence; would have been good for her to have touched on that point.
I didnt know about Leo's glass eye; tangentially related, slide-guitar specialist Ry Cooder, who mostly plays Stratocasters, also has a glass eye. Ry's modifications to one of his Strats spawned the infamous "Coodercaster", with a vintage lap steel pickup in the bridge position and a Japanese Teisco "gold foil" pickup in the neck position. Subsequently, other well-known players had their own Cooder-casters built, and they've become so desirable thst Lollar now builds reissues of the original Valco (National, Supro, Oahu) lap steel pickups. Theres a funny video on youtube titled "The Lost Guitars" where Jackson Browne and David Lindley are singing a modified version of Jesus On the Mainline to Ry Cooder in hopes of a borrowed Cooder-Caster being returned: Jackson sings "I want my Cooder-Caster back" and Lindley provides the chorus: "tell him what you want", while they're sitting in a house (Lindley's home, I think) filled with guitars and amps......Ted Woodford's guitar repair channel also has a video on repairing one of these rare birds.....
PS, if you want to explore roots music, it would be difficult to find better subjects for a video than Ry Cooder and David Lindley. Lindley, who passed away last year, was a guitarist and multi instrumentalist to the stars ----- Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon, James Taylor, Crosby/Nash, and dozens more ---- equally skilled on guitar, lap steel ( "Running On Empty"), fiddle , banjo, mandolin, the Greek Bouzouki, Turkish Saz and Oud, the Chumbus.....he could play anything with strings, built his own hybrid and mutant instruments, and could play any style from folk and bluegrass to reggae and rock ( see ElRayo-X), from country to blues to Middle Eastern music. His recordings with indigenous musicians around the world are legendary, especially the albums he did with local musicians in Madagascar titled "a world out of time". He was unique, a one of one, a volorful character and equally colorful dresser. When he died, even comedian Steve Martin and author Steven King paid homage to him.
Good job.
Nice job on the video!
We have a living man who is very similar to Leo Fender in his importance to the guitar world today. His name is Paul Reed Smith. I would love to see his entire story, especially his beginnings, documented in a similar fashion, while it's still possible.
I’ve made a note for him on my list ! Thank you for the suggestion! ❤️🎵
lol you are not seriously comparing a hack like PRS to Fender?
@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORYPRS is a copycat hack. If you want to feature a true innovator, do Hisatake Shibuya, founder of ESP.
Hahah!! He is nothing like Leo. Paul Reed Smith isn’t doing anything that hasn’t been done.
@@Panic42000 Totally agree. Smith is just a hack that likes to overpriced his mediocre guitars.
I think it's Santa Ana, not Santa Maria.
Exactly what I was thinking. Santa Maria is a small city on the Central Coast of CA.
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Leo Fender was a pivot of the music world.....Fender fits your body compared to the other manufacturers. Sadly Fender has gotten too corporate. G&L is the Fender on steroids and actually fits you better. After playing a G&L, Fender is not on my radar to get.
😂🤣 I feel like a kid in the " candy " shop when I'm in a music store ‼️👍
Can’t agree more! And same about a candy store!
G&L guitars are the best Fenders, made in Fullerton on Fender Ave. If you're ever in Fullerton go by the factory and they'll give you a tour and show you Leo's workshop.
@@markmcdonald5711, a lefthanded acquaintance of mine who used to own a music store told me he liked G&L because they built left-handed versions of each and every model without having to custom-order them.
@@goodun2974 I bought a G&L F-100 strat in 1981 for 500.00 plus 50.00 to make it lefty
I was one of Stevie Ray Vaughans closest friends in you're interested in Stevie
Do you play guitar as you seem to know a lot about it great job😂
Someone is very artistic.you.
Funcle😂❤
Untold?
First, nice video on Leo Fender and the history of Fender Electric Instruments. However, using the word "Untold" in your title is simply un-true or just click-bait. Virtually everything in your video is already known and documented in many books, including those by Fender employees / associates such as Forrest White, George Fullerton, Bill Carson and many other guitar / amp historians. Before TH-cam and the internet there were things called books, an early method of recording information. I have hundreds of them! But hey .....some youngsters may not know this.
You might like to slip American in your channel title. Music is a global practice. It arose well before the North American landmass was known.
There is an unfortunate peaky sound and sibilant distortion on the voice in this video. A different microphone , placement or pop filter may help.
Good research and presentation but the relentless delivery and weraying tone is off puting.
Jeez can u not just listen it's not like she's being quiet , soft times
Sorry, but Santa Maria is nowhere close to Fullerton or Anaheim
As a guitar lover, this subject attracted me, but after listening to the edited-out commentary of it I had to turn it off! When will people understand that breath pauses between sentences are there for a reason! This video is unlistenable! Next!
Good early history but, little information on the guitars and amplifiers.
If you are going to be a presenter, I suggest some training in grammar . Too much American destruction of the English language .
BS he stole the solid body from Paul Bigsby and Les Paul
Wrong 😢
Please explain
A woman telling a man's story? 😂😂 😂 No! 😂😂😂
@@flhxri I identify as a telecaster thank you very much 🤣