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extrait interview à propos de ses guitares !
How long did it take you to find the right guitar, or did it find you?
Interesting. I’ll tell you what happened. After I made my second record, I was looking for a certain sound and I remember going and buying a Strat and a Telecaster. I got real into the Telecaster and I played the Strat as well, but the Tele for some reason seemed easy for me to play. It sounded the way I wanted it to sound, it responded the way I wanted it to respond, so my third record I used that Telecaster and that Strat a lot. Right after that, Ibanez started making me Telecaster copies, then suddenly I got the Poison gig. Fender had come down to the studio because the bass player was playing Fender, and they saw these and said, “You should be playing a real one.” They gave me this brown tobacco sunburst Tele that became my main guitar and they gave me a red Strat. Shortly after that, I signed with Fender and we developed a signature model. Now there’s, I think, four signature models that are sold —a couple of Telecaster variations and a couple of Strat variations.
Are they any easier to obtain?
It’s real weird. I don’t really understand the logic behind Fender USA as far as the people who are making decisions, because the guitar has been selling amazingly well, all of them, and I know this because I’m sent statements, so I can see that people like it and they’re buying it. Why they want to make it so difficult for people in the United States to get this instrument makes absolutely no sense to me. We had a period of time when it was being sold in Europe through certain stores on an official level and somehow that changed, but Japan is able to distribute the guitars outside of Japan, so if you go on certain websites, you can order the guitar. There’s fans I have in the United States who have been able to order the guitar, but not everybody’s comfortable with that. At some point it would be really nice to see that guitar available here at Guitar Center or wherever people like to go to buy guitars.
