OPENING NOTES
Ritzy Bryan
May 28, 2016
Napa Valley Expo
Napa, CA
Photo by Rich Osweiler
The Joy Formidable frontwoman
fires up the BottleRock festival
with her go-to, a 2016 Fender
Elite Stratocaster. Long a Strat
devotee, Bryan has made a couple
adjustments to her new axe by
swapping in a standard 250k
volume pot for the S-1 switching
system, and replacing the bridge
pickup with a Seymour Duncan
Hot Rails. “I’ve fallen head over
heels in love with it,” says Bryan
about the Elite. “The neck has
the playability and feel of an
instrument you’ve taken years to
break in.”
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