SIGNATURE LINCOLN
By Doug Doppler
At Summer NAMM we had the privilege [Lincoln Brewster] Years and years ago, on hundred bucks. So I asked to see it, and I held
of joining Lincoln and the Fender team for my first album and into my second album I was it and was like, “I’ll take it!”
a private celebration breakfast the day his playing a black Stratocaster that a guy gave me signature guitar released. Noting that Lincoln is in Modesto, CA when I lived there. I ended up So those two guitars were my main Strats, and
the only worship guitar player with a signature putting a different neck on it, and then I tried again, I put the Virtual Vintage pickups into
Stratocaster, this guitar was literally years in out these pickups called Virtual Vintage from the gold one. That was the one used on the
the making, and the top designers on the DiMarzio and was like, “Wow, these are my All to You live album. I just fell in love with the
Fender team pulled no punches in the process favorite single coils.” This is going way back, guitar and I really liked the color, I thought it was
of realizing Linc’s vision for this amazing this is the late 90’s when I had that guitar. unique and I had never seen one before.
talk about worship, recording, and the release Then I needed a backup for that guitar, and I So times passes, and I’m primarily playing the
of his new album A Mostly Acoustic Christmas was in a music store in Folsom, CA and there gold one and the black one too sometimes. I
is the man himself, Lincoln Brewster! was this gold 50’s Stratocaster sitting in the was on tour, and we were leaving Las Vegas,
back room, I could kind of half see it from the and my guitars ended up not making it to
[WM] You are the only worship guitar player counter, and I remember going, “Whose guitar Houston on a direct flight somehow, which
with a signature Fender Strat! Can you tell us is that?” And the guy going, “Oh that’s mine, felt very much like an inside job (laughs). But
how that process unfolded? I’m actually selling it.” I said, “How much do both of the Strats that I was madly in love with
you want for it?” and I think he said like nine- were stolen, and I had to borrow a Strat to play
instrument. Here to tell the story of this guitar,
November 2019
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