Fender: girls that are driving sales

jpfamps

Fender have been deliberating targeting females as they have realized that it was the only way they could expand their market, ie by not ignoring 50% of the population.

Danny1969

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

thegummy

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Whitecat

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

thegummy

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

Your assumption that only males like sex jokes is wildly outdated.

Whitecat

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

Your assumption that only males like sex jokes is wildly outdated.

“Joke”. Ok. 

thegummy

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

Your assumption that only males like sex jokes is wildly outdated.

“Joke”. Ok. 

Wow you actually think that could have been anything other than a joke?

Well what exactly do you think it was then?

Whitecat

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

Your assumption that only males like sex jokes is wildly outdated.

“Joke”. Ok. 

Wow you actually think that could have been anything other than a joke?

Well what exactly do you think it was then?

A creepy comment the likes I’d overhear at my dodgy local. 

“It’s just a joke, love!”

Always “just a joke...”

thegummy

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Whitecat said:

thegummy said:

Danny1969 said:

Flanging_Fred said:

Danny1969 said:

The most gifted guitarist I was ever in a band with was a girl called Jess Lewis, she was gig'ing a Fender Tel despite being sent some Ibanez jazzy things to try out. She's an awesome bass player as well. Locally here we have loads of great female muso's

I took this video of Jess busking in Horsham. I sat mesmerised for about an hour watching her. She must have thought I was a very weird stalker or something...

Clearly ridiculously talented.

She's killing it locally on bass at the moment in a funk band, superb bass player. Her other half Jeff is a great drummer and a nice bloke. I enjoyed working with them when I dep'ed for a year in a Rockabilly band. Sometimes you meet the best musicians out of sheer chance. 

Just think how rhythmically locked in their bedroom antics must be

Aaaannd this is why 100% of guitar forumites are still male despite only half of guitarists being same... sigh. 

Your assumption that only males like sex jokes is wildly outdated.

“Joke”. Ok. 

Wow you actually think that could have been anything other than a joke?

Well what exactly do you think it was then?

A creepy comment the likes I’d overhear at my dodgy local. 

“It’s just a joke, love!”

Always “just a joke...”

Creepy comment? So like I was somehow getting some kind of gratification from it?

Seriously, what an absurd reaction. The idea that females in general would be somehow offended by that makes me wonder what planet you're living on.

Whitecat

Ok, so put yourself into the shoes of one of the many aforementioned teenage female guitar students who are doing research across the web and trying to figure out what their next guitar or pedal or amp is going to be. 

As a 15 year old girl, what would you make of an offhand comment like that when trying to decide whether to join a community or not?

Just wondering. 

thegummy

Whitecat said:

Ok, so put yourself into the shoes of one of the many aforementioned teenage female guitar students who are doing research across the web and trying to figure out what their next guitar or pedal or amp is going to be. 

As a 15 year old girl, what would you make of an offhand comment like that when trying to decide whether to join a community or not?

Just wondering. 

As a non-sexist I only have to imagine the 15 year old me, I don't have to imagine I'm a different gender.

So I'd probably see the joke, give it the Christmas cracker groan it deserves then either read the rest of the thread (let's assume this uncalled for confrontation wasn't part of it) then go back and find a thread about guitars or pedals or whatever I was researching.

One of the good things about forums is the variety of people who can all talk together and you may well be over 50 or from a conservative background, I would have no idea. But trust me that in general, girls aren't any more sensitive to that kind of thing than boys, at least the under 40s whom I've spoken to at that level. Just look at the audience of a comedian who makes comments like that - it's definitely not all men by a long shot.

Handsome_Chris

I've seen enough heresy to know where this is going.

breakstuff

I'll tell you what's a joke.



All those bloody quotes above