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The SBL Podcast

109 - Fender Custom Shop vs. Squier / The Day I Stopped Liking Fodera

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Fender’s Custom Shop and its sub-brand Squier are two of the biggest names in the bass world, but many of the instruments they make can look the same, and in some cases actually sound very similar too. In today’s episode, Sharon and Ian dive into some history. Tune in, if only to hear what happened when Sharon met Vinny Fodera! Happy listening. In this podcast you're going to learn: How Stuart Hamm helped kickstart the Fender Custom Shop.Why the perfect P Bass does not exist!What happened whe...

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0:00.0

What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast. I'm feeling good.

0:06.9

I'm feeling good, you guys. It's like fall weather, busting out the fall jackets and shirts.

0:12.4

Not that I don't wear them like all the time. Now it's just seasonally appropriate. And I feel good about that.

0:18.8

Today, the S is different. The I is the same. The

0:21.5

S is different. It's not Scott Devine behind the Scott and the end show. Today, a special treat.

0:27.0

Sharon Reynolds, welcome her to the pod. Scott was on a vacation. Sharon jumped in. We had such a good

0:33.4

time. We're talking today about Fender Custom Shop versus Squire. We both have one. And we're

0:40.7

talking about what we like about it, what we don't like about it. Ooh, it gets juicy. Also,

0:46.3

the day I stopped liking Fodera, who was the eye behind that sentence? You're just going to

0:52.5

have to watch and listen to find out. Let's get

0:55.0

Sharon into the action. Check out this episode.

0:58.0

I love the German accent.

1:01.0

I, well, but you speak German and I feel like if I do a German accent, it's offensive.

1:09.0

But you actually speak German. And so, like, I can't do it,

1:14.6

but you can do it. What do you like about the German accent? I will have full blown conversations

1:18.3

with me in a German accent at times. It cracks Lydia up. With you, like with yourself? No,

1:24.3

with like Lydia. Oh, yeah. But I'll just go, I'll go into like a German accent and I'll do everything with a German accent. And it cracks me up. Like, it's really hard to keep it up, but it's really funny. Wow. I'll do this whole pot in a German accent. We need a sample. Let me, um, let me ask you this. Uh, give me, I want, I want your 30 second review of Barbie in a German accent.

1:46.6

Go.

1:51.7

First of all, I'm not sure I can give you a review of Barbie in 30 seconds because it's just

1:56.9

such a vast, like, it touches on so many subjects. It's very, very weird to try and

2:03.6

confine it into just a mere 30 seconds. I mean, I'll take that. I do want to talk to you

2:11.2

about Barbie. But before we get into that, I want to ask you about, you just, you just spent

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