Interview:

Robert Herndon said:
All is good, kind, Sir...

The town I grew up in was very backwards. I was just a kid who wanted to play rock n roll.
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Robert, after listening to you on your mom's song, I could only shake my head. How awesome did you sound then, even if it was Country. Heck, when I was that age, I took a series of lessons at my local music store and at 13-14, I was still trying to master Three Blind Mice and Twinkle Twinkle on the guitar.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Robert, after listening to you on your mom's song, I could only shake my head. How awesome did you sound then, even if it was Country. Heck, when I was that age, I took a series of lessons at my local music store and at 13-14, I was still trying to master Three Blind Mice and Twinkle Twinkle on the guitar.
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That's very kind of you to say, Bro...I had a lot of help and a lot of coaching on that recording.

When I was about 7 years old, I started playing little one string melodies on the guitar. My folks gave me a 45 record by The Belairs. 'Mr. Moto' was on one side and 'Little Brown Jug' was on the other.


I used to sit in the living room and put the 45 on my parent's big Marantz stereo console and play it over and over again. I started out just following the progression on a single string. After a while...I don't remember exactly...perhaps 6 months or so...I could pretty much play along to these two songs.

Then, Mom gave me this album. The record was transparent red.


My Mom had a big Alvarez 12 string and it was so big that I couldn't get my arms around it. I wanted to play that 12 string so bad, but the neck was huge!!! I started playing the lead parts on my Mom's little Silvertone.

I would sit around and just play little two or three string melodies to the songs that would come on the radio.

Around 1974, my Mom gave me these two albums:


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Merle Haggard Album.jpg

I started playing along to them everyday after school and whenever I had the chance. I eventually got to where I could play all the guitar parts on both albums, playing them back to back without stopping. I didn't have any friends and we lived out in the country, so I was playing every second that I could.
 
eSGEe said:
Fender QC fixin' ta get da Bobbert Treatment !!! -- -Hell they all ready kick Gibbos arse...... Bobby gets in their measuring tolerances to 1millionth of inch ........................aint NOTHING gonna beat a FENDER!!!!!!

Say Robert -- good luck -- and uhm Id like call DIBS ON ALL THE REJECTS YOU CAN SHIP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


@Hackmaster .... your gonna need a bigger shed -- we gots "B-Stock" GEETARS TO SELL BABY!
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I was thinking about the same thing and Robert's keen eye for details.
 
smitty_p said:
So, yeah…

Let‘s explore a hypothetical situation.

Suppose someone…(we’ll call him, for no particular reason, “Robert”) was to notice a “defective“ USA Stratocaster.

How might…”Robert”… go about disposing of such an instrument?

Surely, we could be of great service to Fender by providing that infrastructure!
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Johnny Cash, been there, done that.

 
Looks like I am due to make a new thread about my new Speakers, and my new Cab.

I can't wait to get my own pics, and my Cab wired up and sounding good. Ampmad, Sg John, Bastard, Ivan all know a little of my speaker find.
Got them home and splice connected them to my one little amp and then test lead connected to the 4x12 cab jack, and with either my Ashdown Mag 300 H or my mini Epiphone Studio 10S,with the speaker leads running the new speakers, I got to hear how they sounded, and found these to be some sweet hunks of magnet, cone and sonic delight. Never heard that little Epi Amp sound so good.

Much like my dream guitars, I now own a pair of some of my dream speakers. EV EVM 12L's from the 80's.
 
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