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🎸 Afterword: The End of the Leo Era — Guitars in the Age of Machines There is a quiet, almost sacred weight to the realization that an era has ended. When G&L Musical Instruments closed its doors in September of 2025 and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation took ownership of the Leo Fender name and likeness shortly thereafter, it wasn’t just a corporate event. It was the closing of a circle that began in a California workshop nearly seventy-five years earlier, a circle drawn by the hands of one man who changed how the world heard itself. For decades, guitars were more than tools. They were companions to rebellion, mirrors for expression, and extensions of personality. The men who built them Leo Fender, Les Paul, Ted McCarty, George Fullerton didn’t see themselves as legends. They were engineers, craftsmen, and dreamers shaping the electricity of a new century. Their work gave sound a body and feeling a form. But as time passed, the tools outlived their makers, and the world they built for began to fade. In 1991, when Leo Fender passed away, production continued. His instruments still bore his name, still resonated with the clarity and bite that had defined his philosophy: “Keep it simple, keep it serviceable, keep it musical.” Yet the world around them changed. Computers began to play where musicians once did. Songs became data. Instruments became icons hanging on digital walls. Gradually, the sound of fingers on strings once the voice of a generation grew quieter beneath the algorithmic hum of automated rhythm and synthetic tone. Now, in an age of artificial intelligence, auto-tune, and generative soundscapes, the tactile nature of a guitar feels almost rebellious. To hold a slab of wood, to feel its grain, to fight the resistance of strings, this is an act of defiance against convenience. It is imperfect, human, and slow. And because of that, it is real. That reality may not trend on streaming charts, but it endures in hearts and hands that still crave authenticity. The guitars Leo built at G&L from the first F-100 to the final ASATs will never exist again. Not in their original form, not under his name, not with his vision guiding production. They are artifacts now, preserved echoes of a time when sound was made, not programmed. Each neck pocket date, each pot code, each finish check is a record of human intention, proof that design, when born of passion, can transcend the life of its creator. To the next generation, Leo Fender’s name may appear in footnotes, or on the headstock of a reissued model designed by committee. But for those who remember and for those who care to rediscover his genius remains carved in every curve and frequency of the instruments he left behind. And those instruments, kept alive by players and collectors alike, will continue to sing long after the machines have fallen silent. What dies in the market often survives in memory. And memory, if tended to carefully, becomes legacy.

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No...it was me... There seems to be a number of celebrities doing good deeds currently and I thought this was genuine.

Rod Stewart BRINGS THE WORLD TO TEARS — Fulfilling the final wish of his late father, Robert Stewart, Rod has quietly built 77 homes for war veterans — a “performance” unlike any he has ever given. Not beneath shimmering stage lights, but under the heat of the sun on a construction site, he traded his microphone for a hard hat. Each brick he laid seemed to echo like a note of gratitude, a hymn of respect for those who had given everything. There were no spotlights, no encores — only a man transforming love, duty, and legacy into something tangible. Fans were moved to tears, calling it “the greatest masterpiece of Rod Stewart’s life” — not a song carried by music, but a melody carved in compassion, humility, and an unshakable tribute to true heroes. W.a.t.ch fu.ll vi.de.o be.low!😯👇👇 Fu.ll st.o.ry: Link to dodgy site removed

Remember the 70s and the Punk movement??? When bands were adamant that they would never "sell out"?? There are currently adverts on the TV featuring samples by both The Jam and The Sex Pistols - probably the two most vocal against "selling out".... My question: are tracks from 30-40 years ago which don't generate an income "fair game" for adverts and the like??? Integrity -v- income....

On this day in 1949 Phil Lynott came into the world....the rest is history..

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