GORDON KENNEDY
below: Then... Kennedy at 15, playing a Fender, through a Fender, wearing a“ Fender is for Lovers” T-shirt!
left: Now... Five decades later, Kennedy recreates that moment with the same Tele.
That turned out to be a wise investment in more ways than one. You’ ve got quite a collection of guitars with real history behind them. Let’ s talk about a few. The‘ 74 Telecaster your dad gave you when you were fifteen is a good place to start. That guitar has gone through some changes in its life.
Yeah, see-through blonde, rosewood board. I was floored that he got me that for Christmas. Two months later I played it on stage with my first band, with Jerry Reed’ s daughter Seidina singing, and we did three songs in front of an audience.
Later I realized that guitar was the same shape as one my dad had in the closet, no case, just sitting in there all the years I was growing up. Somebody had put red shelving contact paper
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