Now, I’m using a pretty broad brush here, and including Strat-a-likes (I have a Warmoth, as well as an ’82 ‘The Strat’), as well as some shredsticks too, which wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Leo and his design team. This article is about the top five things I love about a Strat. With all the custom finishes available today, we have to give our thanks where it all began. It is hard to imagine what they must have looked like on the walls of a late 1950s music store. While they were still available in natural and sunburst, he later added those colors we now call ’50s colors’ like Shoreline Gold, Seafoam Green, Shell Pink, and Daphne Blue. He tapped into the Southern California hot rod culture for his color palette and refined his ‘easy to assemble with a versatile sound’ design in the Strat. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Leo Fender heard the music of the 1950s changing. Listen to your favorite songs from Liberator by Joone Now. I mean, just think: when it came out, natural finishes were all the rage, and other than its cousin the Telecaster, electric guitars contained their acoustic roots in the shapes, colors, and sounds. The Fender Stratocaster is a pretty unique instrument.
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