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Something a bit different…I’ve just got hold of Fender: The Golden Age by Martin Kelly, Terry Foster and Paul Kelly. It came out earlier this year but I’ve only just come across it – probably because I don’t tend to get guitar magazines these days and therefore it passed me by.

Anyway, it is a fantastic book; I’ve grown up with things like The Ultimate Guitar book and the range of books by Tony Bacon et al (The Fender book, The Bass book etc) which were all great books – pure guitar porn. But since them, the other guitar books I’ve seen have all been much of a muchness, often with the same photos in them. This new book is different though; it is incredible. There are some guitars in here I have never seen, or even heard of in 20 odd years of being a guitar obsessive. For example, the prototype hollow Telecaster Thinline and bound edge Jaguar had my heart racing a little bit…

The other interesting thing (for me) is that the Martin Kelly who wrote this is none other than the same Martin Kelly who co-founded Heavenly Records and subsequently married Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne. I didn’t think I could be more envious of one man and now I see the guitars that have passed through his hands…

If you have any interest in Fenders, then you will definitely enjoy this book.

Tags: Fender

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