wingsdad
July 6th, 2009, 10:32 PM
Passed peacefully in his sleep on July 4th.
G&L, the company George & Leo started after 'consulting' for MusicMan, once the non-compete clause expired on the deal that Leo had sold Fender to CBS, posted this dedication on its website's home page today:
G&L Home Page Dedication (http://www.glguitars.com/index.asp)
This is George & Leo while they were together building G&L:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/wingsdad/George-Leo-5in.jpg
Farewell to Leo Fender's long time friend and ally in founding an upstart company bearing Leo's surname in 1948 and then, together, developing the Broadcaster, Telecaster and Stratocaster, just to name what were surely their the most significant contributions to our world. Here's a photo of George Fullerton (in the foreground) testing a new Stratocaster in the Fender factory, in 1954. It wasn't until 1957 that George & Leo felt they'd 'perfected' it;
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/wingsdad/GF_1954_at-Fender-5in.jpg
G&L, the company George & Leo started after 'consulting' for MusicMan, once the non-compete clause expired on the deal that Leo had sold Fender to CBS, posted this dedication on its website's home page today:
G&L Home Page Dedication (http://www.glguitars.com/index.asp)
This is George & Leo while they were together building G&L:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/wingsdad/George-Leo-5in.jpg
Farewell to Leo Fender's long time friend and ally in founding an upstart company bearing Leo's surname in 1948 and then, together, developing the Broadcaster, Telecaster and Stratocaster, just to name what were surely their the most significant contributions to our world. Here's a photo of George Fullerton (in the foreground) testing a new Stratocaster in the Fender factory, in 1954. It wasn't until 1957 that George & Leo felt they'd 'perfected' it;
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/wingsdad/GF_1954_at-Fender-5in.jpg