The Fender Bender That Rocked the World
By King Khan
For the last century it may be difficult to find a rock n roll recording that wasn’t played thru a fender amp or guitar. We here at chainsaw have had endless fun with their criminally cheap guitars and I think every album I have released over the past twenty years was played with the aid of my telecaster squier. The fact is the cheaper fenders sound better than the really expensive weathered to look old models that cost thousands. The plague of the modern world that over prices slave labour made items is getting so out of hand that I wonder why new products are made at all. You can’t tell me that more t-shirts or shoes need to be produced…. Look at the mountains of used clothes that are donated to places in dire need like Haiti, this is not charity, it’s using a country as a garbage bag and throwing away products that have already polluted the world in their conception. After doing some infernal digging I found out that not only is Fender a crooked company that denied Wayne Kramer and Tom Morello cheap guitars for their music rehabilitation programs for prisons, they also refused to give me guitars for my mentorship program for struggling indigenous youth around Canada even after getting an ok from J. mascis of dinosaur jr. who approved of me sending his custom design of the jaguar to the Indians. Imagine how many Link Wrays could be born out of that effort. THe fact is that not only did fender just stop writing to me about it, feigning ignorance, but they told Wayne Kramer of the MC5 that they felt it wasn’t a good “look” for the company to be meddling with prisoners. Ask yourself how many musicians with criminal records have rocked a fender, the answer is probably astronomically high. The time has come to finally examine the companies we support. if a record label like In the Red records, who claim to be punk rock support the Zionist occupation of Palestine then why should we buy their products? Why should we fatten the belly of label owners and companies who openly support genocide. if fender has a problem rehabilitating people who have been dealt the wrong hand by a capitalist society that revels in the prison industrial complex and makes billions of dollars by making slave plantation prisons like Angola Prison in Lousyanna then shouldn’t we have a problem with Fender. So read this and rethink your support for crooked businesses…
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