Seems Fender (or maybe just The Man) has recently hiked list prices on their guitars by about $200 -- particularly the American Standard series Telecasters and Stratocasters. They run almost $1,000 at places like Guitar Center and Musician's Friend -- two notorious low-ballers in the retail musical instrument market. I paid a pubic-hair more than $700 for mine a few years ago.
It sounds like a good plan because musicians are known for having tons of disposable cash...
...that should come off like sarcasm because that's the way it was intended.
Anyway, hard-working rookie musicians can still rock out; they just have to downgrade a little bit to something like the Fender "Li'l Hendrix" series, which comes with four guitar picks, a guitar strap imprinted with musical notation of few measures from Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", and a flamboyant plastic-fabric cape "like the rockstars wear."
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jIMINY cHRISTMAS jIM--
THEY HAVE BEEN FOR ABOUT 3 TO 4 MONTHS NOW...try E-Bay...some japanese dude is selling some Not-For Export Fender Custom Shop Guitars, as good or better than American...goes by the handle "guitargai"
yep, check it out, holmes, you'll like it...
xoxox
chris kloewer
I dig, bro... You have made a fine point and quite an impression. If the images on the internet translate to cool sound, then I'm a convert. I'm inclined to agree that they do sound good, as I have encountered a Japanese Fender bass that to my uneducated fingers played as well as my dick (and let me tell you -- that instrument sounds fantastic...
Hugs and kisses right back at you.
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