Far as I know, Les never went guano loco and bought a bunch of exotic animals and got his face carved up and heatshrunk.
Originally posted by Blue I certainly wouldn't take anything from Fender. Those 2 guys make up 99.999% of the definition of "electric guitar" as far as I'm concerned.
Aye, Les invented it, but it was Leo who did that quintessentially American thing, and gave it to the masses. That's why the shape of the Strat is basically now a pictograph for
electric guitar. Show to a new-found Amazonian tribe that never before has had contact with civilisation, and all the members'll probably start air-guitaring "Purple Haze."
I've got a Strat around here somewhere (granted, it's a Squire, HSS, but it's a
limited edition - oooo, classy, I know. Got that kick-arse fat sixties headstock, though.)
Leo did a lot for the other part of the equation - the amps.