If you play a fender guitar, you know the screaming, raw sound that they are renowned for. Of course, the Fender musical instrument is not the only choice for the guitar player, but in my opinion it is the best for many. They are the only large guitar maker who has stuck with the single pickup all the way through, and I think almost all of rock and roll thanks them for it. Although a Gibson musical instrument might give you less noise and signal distortion, it comes at a price. A Gibson guitar just simply does not rock in the same way that a Fender musical instrument rocks. They do not have the crisp sound, the detail, the harmonics. They are all bottom, and no shrieking top. For my money, you can not do better in rock and roll, then by playing a Fender musical instrument, and that is why that is what I spend my money on.

I have been playing consistently with a Fender musical instrument for the past twenty years, and I have to say that the sound has never failed me. I play garage rock, and my Fender musical instrument gives me the body that I need to keep our group rocking all the way to the max. Of course, the rhythm guitarist plays a Gibson, and so we have a bit of a rivalry going on. I will grant you that the mellowness of a Gibson does something for rhythm guitar, but if you are in the lead, as I am, mellowness is not your greatest goal. If you chose to play guitar as your instrument, you probably did it because you do not want to be in the background. If you want to take the lead, a noisy, raunchy Fender musical instrument really will probably do you better.

Of course, this is not really true across the board. For example, if you want to play jazz, a Fender musical instrument probably will not be your first choice. On the contrary, what a jazz guitarist should look for is a mellow tone, and a full dynamic response, which can be better achieved through active pickups than a nice Fender musical instrument single coil. But this is a whole different issue. To tell the truth, I could not care all that much less about jazz than I already do. I have rock and roll in my soul.