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After skimming the GW article, I'm at least glad to read that these are one-offs and are being donated to 9/11 first-responder organizations. Still, they look really tacky.
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"The guitars are the brainchild of Minnesota firefighter Tommy Clarke, who, a decade ago, was on the scene of the World Trade Center within 24 hours after disaster struck. In the years afterward, he collected pins, badges, medals and other commendation related to the three New York agencies and to Sept. 11. The decorations that adorn the three guitars are from his collection.....
....Quinones was enlisted, and in no time Clarke had a complete set of guitar designs. “I had a strong vision of what I wanted,” Clarke said. “The biggest problem with the guitars was that there’s not a lot of real estate. Each guitar tells a story, and the hardest part was to paint the tragedy while still portraying ourselves as emerging triumphant.”
Is anyone reading the fucking article at all? Why is is so bad a firefighter who was at the scene of the attacks want to create something to honor those that perished and Fender made his vision a reality?
Yeah I did read the article and IMO theses guitars are a strange idea in the first place but ones that have been taken up by Fender should have and could have been alot more successful than they are. They have been poorly executed. They do look cheap and tacky and the idea that they tell a story or portray the American people (and every other nationality that died as well inc 67 brits was it?) triumph over the catastrophe.... they fail to do that. A proper memorial in guitar form or any from should speak to both the tragedy and to the hope that people can take out of it, should'nt celebrate what happened that day but mark that day and celebrate the positives that have come out of that ten years on.... All three just look like a Fire Brigade style strat and two police based strats one with dodgy art work of a policeman holding up some wreckage (yes one is for the port service but unless you live in NYC or your american your not gonna know that) To me, i don't see which bit of the design and art work reflects either 9/11 or the ten years since? (and I mean that without having to read the full blurb on each guitar to understand what each part and badge and colour represents....
I think Fender should have taken this guys ideas and done so much more with it than they have....
as an example couple of images off google all I did was do a search for "9/11 tributes"... and on the first page I found theses and theses speak more to me immediately about that day and the memory's, this is what the guitars should have tried to portray...
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True, they could have done a lot better with the designs. I am just talking more the intent of it all and people calling it a "Money Making Venture" when it has been stated numerous times that they will be donated to the foundations.
Yeah I did read the article and IMO theses guitars are a strange idea in the first place but ones that have been taken up by Fender should have and could have been alot more successful than they are. They have been poorly executed.