I have a white Strat with a Lone Star configuration and I adore it. The thing can sing like an angel and growl like a monster, often at the same time. I love me a Strat now. BUT, you have to play 'em through a Fender tube amp like a Twin or an old Tweed or you are wastin' your time, IMHO FWIW, etc. And yes I know Marshall fans will yell at me. Go ahead. I have heard it before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This may be tangential, but I have a funny story about the Fender Rhodes, another classic. My brother has a vintage Rhodes, and sometime back it broke, and Fender gave him Harold Rhodes' phone number, while he was still alive.

Harold Rhodes, over the telephone, spent several hours helping my brother repair the wiring on the piano after he had taken it apart, and walked him through the soldering process to make sure he didn't ruin anything.

But he had to listen to about two hours worth of: "Young kids these days! They don't know anything about a real keyboard! They don't know a thing about real music or real keyboards! They wouldn't know a real song or a real keyboard if it hit them in the face!"

And on and on.

When it was over, my brother plugged his keyboard in and played it, and Harold Rhodes said:

"There! Now that is what a real keyboard sounds like!!"

And my brother said:

"I know. It's why I called you."

Harold Rhodes liked that one, my brother said.

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