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10-20-2014, 12:17 PM
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John Mayer Ends Artist Relationship with Fender
A buddy from Sweden forwarded this link to me over the weekend:
http://reverb.com/blog/john-mayer-an...it-with-fender Everybody drop whatever you're doing, rush over to GC and buy up all those JM Signature Strats hanging on the walls. They'll be considered collectors' items some day... 
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10-20-2014, 01:11 PM
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I'd agree with him that it's not the same company. Seems to all over the place and going back and forth on things (all the acquisitions and shut downs, sell offs, etc.).
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10-20-2014, 04:01 PM
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I've never heard a single John Mayer song.
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"I used to try to play fast, and it’s fun for a minute, but I always liked saxophone players. They speak on their instrument, and I always wanted to do that on the guitar, to communicate emotionally. When you write, you wouldn’t just throw words into a bowl. There has to be a beginning, middle and end. Same thing with phrasing on the guitar" Jimmie Vaughan
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10-20-2014, 04:23 PM
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I wonder if he'll sign an endorsement with someone else (same question asked as that article). I can't see him switching from a Strat though unless it was something like a G&L.
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10-20-2014, 04:39 PM
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Quote:
 and I know he's dated some pretty girls, but I've never had the urge to listen to any of his music. Maybe if he was a little uglier.
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"I used to try to play fast, and it’s fun for a minute, but I always liked saxophone players. They speak on their instrument, and I always wanted to do that on the guitar, to communicate emotionally. When you write, you wouldn’t just throw words into a bowl. There has to be a beginning, middle and end. Same thing with phrasing on the guitar" Jimmie Vaughan
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#7
10-21-2014, 10:10 PM
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Fender actually began going off the tracks in the go-go 90s, when its solution to a declining market for new guitars was to acquire every competitor they could. You can only float so many junk-bond issues until one day, they come due, and you have to pay them off. That's what led to them having to sell to an equity capital firm (who only cares about the bottom line and profit figures, NOT making a quality product). People who thought that Fender was going to inject some needed capital in Hamer, Tacoma, Guild and Ovation when they acquired those companies were sorely mistaken. The cash just wasn't there... never was.
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