Post by gog on Mar 5, 2008 12:48:14 GMT -5
The Shadows - Riders In The Sky
Ah, only the Shadows can turn an old cowboy song in to a Disco groove, and do a good job of it.
Hank Marvin was a guitar hero (still is) back in the good ole day's.
In 1959 Hank brought the first Fender Stratocaster into the UK, a Fiesta red Strat, with gold hardware,
It goes that, Marvin and Richard was searching through a Fender catalogue to find the guitar played by James Burton, Ricky Nelson's lead guitarist. They assumed it must be a Stratocaster because the most expensive in the brochure was a gold-plated example. Burton, however, played the Telecaster, and the Stratocaster was relatively new. Although Marvin used that original guitar between 1959 and 1961,
That's how the story goes, just a bit of trivia for anyone, that didnt know like
The Shadows - Riders In The Sky
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