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I'm quite sure they did have some kinda deal with Fender in the early days,
because their photograph was featured prominently in early 1960's Fender
literature.
Bruce D
Gavin Ehringer <> wrote:
I hope you fired that guitar teacher! Elitist snob that (he?) was...
--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
> I remember reading an interview at the beginning of a
> Ventures tab book with one of the guys who said that
> they did have an endorsement deal with Fender up to
> the point that they started using the Mosrites. A
> guitar teacher I once had actually accused Fender of
> bombarding the young music market with images of it's
> products via paid endorsements with bands (sort of
> like the Microsoft of musical instruments) and implied
> that most bands didn't use Fender at the beginning and
> that most bands would not have if not for this. He
> also called the Jaguar a "gimmicky student guitar" and
> said that none of the "real" guys used Jaguars because
> they were junk compared to the Strat. So...
>
> Richard
>
> --- Marty Tippens <mctippens@e...> wrote:
> > While it's well known that the Ventures had an
> > endorsement deal with Mosrite (actually partnership
> > with Mosley is more like it), I haven't seen it
> > clearly stated that they had any endorsement deal
> > with Fender. They must have with the way Fenders
> > were so prominently displayed on so many of their
> > early album covers.
>
>
>
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