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Location: Orlando, FL | Wow, This says a lot. You may not be a fan of the DJ Ashba or the Heroin Diaries guitars, but at least they don't look like this!
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Probably made in New Hartford |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Only Fender would put something like that with that saying on a hanger in a music store for sale. 
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Location: Flahdaw | Would have been more appropriate on a Gibson guitar THESE days... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Um, most (or absolutely) all of us are not in the demographic this guitar is targeted at.
....and if you think the FUTURE is stupid, you're not paying attention NOW.
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | Kinda sad that there IS a demographic that this appeals to...
I guess I'm old. |
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Location: SoCal | Frank Kozik's response in the Fender Forum... | kozik | Post subject: Re: New Kozik "Future is Stupid" Fender Acoustic......  Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:28 pm |
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Posts: 1 | LOL. ran across this thought I'd respond.
about 2 years ago Fender asked me to submit a batch of designs that where reminiscent of my old poster stuff. turned in about 6 designs total. they picked this one and another one that is mostly black with a skull and some blood. They had requested 'extremely bold' graphics.
I do believe this was in an effort to reach a different group of people other than their normal customers.
I personally am not a guitar player nor versed in any history of guitars or anything like that.
I can appreciate the fact that this isnt enjoyed by the 'traditional' guitar players, and to tell the truth, its been a while and I had more or less forgotten about it. I suppose it is pretty weird for a guitar.
you guys take it easy , if anyone feels the need to further insult me you can always join my Facebook page.
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Location: Texas | "if anyone feels the need to further insult me" What a skirt. To most Americans, I would think it would be offensive to represent our country by depicting the Statue of Liberty defaced as a skull and Anarchy in black written across the American Flag blotched in blood... Of course, what he sees is "mostly black with a skull and some blood." Right. Sometimes you have to keep in mind that Dr. Frankenstien was a proud dad...
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Location: SoCal | Jay, If this was one of Kozik's posters, I'd say it was not the first piece of artistic expression that I've seen with depictions that I find inappropriate or offensive. What pisses me off... is that Fender, "An American Icon", put this $hit on guitars.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Well, in the end the consumer has the only voice that counts. I guess if you don't like it, then the best protest is to just not buy it. |
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Location: Texas | "then the best protest is to just not buy it."
That really doesn't work for me, because I cannot afford the guitars I do like.
I am just mystified why an American company, with the heritage Fender and its subsidiaries have, would want to produce a guitar that is so blatantly anti-American and embraces Anarchy?
Maybe it is just for overseas sales.
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "Don't feed it. Maybe, it will go away." |
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Location: Flahdaw | Only a dumb kid would buy that guitar, which would then make what's written on it painfully true... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I agree with db, but also think that Fender has helped fulfill the prophecy by putting that on a guitar. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Fortunately, we live in a society where guitars with graphics like this can be offered to the public without fear of some authority declaring that they can't be, and we, as consumers, have the right to love or hate it, which will likely be reflected in our decision to but it or not. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | boltonb - 2012-03-12 12:30 PM
Fortunately, we live in a society where guitars with graphics like this can be offered to the public without fear of some authority declaring that they can't be, and we, as consumers, have the right to love or hate it, which will likely be reflected in our decision to but it or not.
Well said Prof! One man's trash is another man's treasure also comes to mind. Definitely not my cuppa, but at $99 somebody's probably buying them.
Rebelling against authority, through the choice of fashion or musical expression kinda sounds familiar. Every generation wants to piss off (or at least differentiate itself from) the old farts.
As long as the kids with those guitars stay off my lawn, we don't have a problem, |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Haha, nice one SOBeach! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Thanks, Beach. Now it makes sense. |
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Location: Flahdaw | And sales of the new design SKYROCKET!!!! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | A design like that is about torking the old folks ... so my wife bought me a t-shirt of this american soldier with an angry skulhead head tossing a handgrenade ... I only wear it to yoga class. |
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Location: Tennessee | Same as it ever was. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | What Bobbo said.
If it pisses off old farts it's DEFinately ROCK AND ROOOOLLLLLL!!!!!
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | The cool part is. It's a Fender acoustic. Nobody will buy it. So you won't see one anyway. I know maybe 3 people who have a Fender acoustic. Most buy one till they can get a good guitar. |
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