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Fender was a tough job. Everything you did was timed....
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The place was simply enormous...
And it was tough to do your best work in the time allotted...
Bit, i caught a lot of QC problems before they could reach the consumer...
And it was tough to do your best work in the time allotted...
Bit, i caught a lot of QC problems before they could reach the consumer...
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I spent a year with Fender...
I felt good about my work there...
I was moved onto various different assignments...
I felt good about my work there...
I was moved onto various different assignments...
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But, the closer i looked, the more problems i found...
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2020 and 2021 were tough financial times for full time musicians with no cash reserves to fall back on..
So we kept working, not out of disrespect for the law, but because we had families to support...
So we kept working, not out of disrespect for the law, but because we had families to support...
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Eventually, things got back to somewhat more normal...
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The people made the work a lot of fun...
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Sometimes, i recorded projects for hire in my home studio...
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I even tried cobbling some pickups together from parts. Some were great, others, not so much...
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The music life made family time really difficult.
There were two sides of me that were in constant conflict...
There were two sides of me that were in constant conflict...
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Eventually, one of our instructors would open a new music academy satellite center...
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Bands came and went...
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Many great band relationships deteriorsted due to internal conflict and differences in musical direction...
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And, we lost some bandmates and friends along the way...
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Getting to the gigs meant traveling every night...
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Playing hard was the name of the game...
