Happy Birthday Leo

[Bassman Steve]

103rd birthday of one Clarence Leo Fender today. All I can add to that is a heartfelt thank you for the music - or the bass to play it on anyway.

[Ou7shined]

Thank you for my G&L L-1000 and also for designing my Stingray man.

[Chris Horton]

+ 1

Thanks for the Bass guitars !!!!

[KiOgon]

He got it so right 1st time! 60 years on & they're still top sellers

[charic]

Out of interest how many things have changed as little as the precision over this period of time and still sell in stupid numbers today?

[Dave Vader]

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Out of interest how many things have changed as little as the precision over this period of time and still sell in stupid numbers today?
[/quote]

apples, potatoes, bananas....

[Lozz196]

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1344600944' post='1766917']
103rd birthday of one Clarence Leo Fender today. All I can add to that is a heartfelt thank you for the music - or the bass to play it on anyway.
[/quote]

+1

[noelk27]

For my '83 El Toro and '80 Sabre ...

Oh, and the Strat and Jazz in my studio are also pretty good for being over 45 years old.

[spongebob]

Ditto what's already been said.....if Leo hadn't been such a visionary, what this site be? Or even exist?

Uprightbasschat?

[mckendrick]

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1344609347' post='1767116']
apples, potatoes, bananas....
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....bread, milk....

[Delberthot]

Whenever people ask me about my Fender tattoo I explain that without Leo I'd likely be playing some bastard upright creation

[Gust0o]

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Whenever people ask me about my Fender tattoo I explain that without Leo I'd likely be playing some bastard upright creation
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Dare I ask where this is?

I think we have to acknowledge our indebtedness to this man. In his designs, he got it so, so right - which is remarkable enough; it's even more remarkable that he went on to repeat the feat!

[JTUK]

can you do a happy birthday to a man that is dead..???

just sayin'

[RhysP]

I thought this thread was going to be about Leo Sayer.
How very disappointing.

[noelk27]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1344674759' post='1767770']can you do a happy birthday to a man that is dead..???

just sayin'[/quote]
Celebrating the anniversary of someone's birth, even after the person has died? Of course, we do it all the time, and not just for religious festivals. Being Scots, Burn's night immediately springs to mind.