#terry foster

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A bouquet of late 50s and early 60s Musicmasters!

Throwback to a 2019 visit to Fender Historian and author Terry Foster's collection.

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Note: Top ten hottest characters, part seventeen. I haven’t seen Peacemaker yet. Or read Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland (or anything by Parker himself), but there’s no way book Hawk is as hot as movie Hawk, right? He’s a boxer. My puppy’s part Boxer. He likes dogs. If we were a couple, Hawk and I could dress up as Boxers for Halloween. 

10. Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) from Captain Marvel

Shapeshifting space elf. 

9. Stefano (William McNamara) from Opera

If anyone had to be tied up, gagged, and needled… 

8. Alex (Justin Long) from He’s Just Not That into You

It’s just not that great a movie. Cute bartender, though. 

7. Man with Red Eyes (Kyle Secor) from A Wrinkle in Time

Hypnotized and hypnotizing. 

6. Abner Krill (David Dastmalchian) and Christopher Smith (John Cena) from The Suicide Squad

Why are failed/corrupt superheroes hot? 

5. Cliff Vandercave (Kyle MacLachlan) from The Flintstones

He (and everyBarney else) dresses silly and should wear shoes. But evil businessman. 

4. Matthew Brown (Jonathan Tucker) from Hannibal

Aw, his one-sided crush on Will. 

3. Terry Foster (Michael Elcock) from Queens of Mystery

Why is Matilda into an engaged man when P.C. Foster is literally right there and ready to simp? 

2. Seymour Krelborn (Conrad Ricamora) from Little Shop of Horrors

Ricamora playing another virile dork. 

1. Hawk (Winston Duke) from Spenser Confidential

WHOO. 

Note: Previous part. I wish Queens of Mystery got a third season. The narration makes it like a vastly less depressing ASOUE. Also, there are no HD pictures of Secor!Hank. :(

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Christmas, 1965.

Courtesy of @terry_foster.

1965 Mustang 1965 Champ 1965 Reverb

All with original shipping boxes, manuals, and hang tags.

Eternal gratitude to Terry for letting me take this photo (for @richdizz's 2022 @officialguitarlogs calendar), thus giving me the ultimate Instagram Christmas photo to post each year for all eternity! 😉

Thanks also to @michaelsegui for assisting on this photo and @colinjcripps for supplying bts inspiration with his Roman Red Jazzmaster, a minty Epiphone Riviera, and the gnarliest Telecaster I have ever seen.

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

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1964 Jaguar in (super rare) Foam Green & 1965 red Mustang in Red, both from the @terry_foster collection.

It's always a bit like drinking from a firehose visiting Terry's collection, and last night's visit was no exception. Terry is cooking up an article on an absolutely unique, one-of-a-kind piece of #Fender history for @fretboardjournal magazine, and asked me to snap a few photos. See Terry's story for some BTS content (you will get a hint of what the article will be about, and even get to see what I look like lol!)

If you don't know Terry Foster, you may have heard of the book he co-authored with Martin & Paul Kelly called "Fender The Golden Age 1946 - 1970", which is essential reading for any vintage guitar afficionado, and the definitive history of the Fender company during it's heyday.

If you *do* know Terry Foster, you will then also know that this photo shows some of the LEAST rare pieces in his vast collection of all things Fender. I can't even begin to describe the depth and breadth of the historical treasures Terry has gathered. He has gone lightyears beyond simply collecting Fender guitars and amps (although he has those too), into Fender ephemera of all types...from production prototypes to dealer signs and chachkas to historical company documents to plans and notes handwritten by company officers to business cards (some spanning specific employees' entire careers with Fender and beyond!) to Fender company Christmas Cards to unseen/unpublished personal photographs of, and taken by, Leo Fender. And this just scratches the surface...the list goes on, and on, AND ON! You have to see what Terry has to believe it, and it will boggle your mind. Hopefully he will write another book someday soon...

Anyhoo...after last night's mind-blowing collection tour, I am completely exhausted. I am going back to bed. Enjoy these lovely offsets for #fenderfriday!😂

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Can you imagine coming home to this wall every night? This just a small part of @terry_foster's collection but it's enough to make any #Fender afficionado weep tears of pure joy. I snapped this pic last week on a break from our photo session to document something in Terry's collection a thousand times rarer than anything you see in this pic for his upcoming @fretboardjournal article. Stay tuned for that... 😉 On the top shelf you are looking at a selection of early Champions from the late 40s, and Champs from the early 50s, incl. a wide panel tweed on the left and a small box narrow panel on the far right. Wait "small box" Champ...what the heck is that?? Did you know there were two version of the narrow panel Champ? The earlier ones came in a smaller box with a 6" speaker, and the later ones in a larger box with an 8" speaker . I learned that from visiting Terry's collection BTW! 😉 On the second shelf we see not one but THREE 1945 K&F amplifiers! These are PRE-Fender Company Fenders and to see three in one collection is pretty incredible! Speaking of pretty incredible, next to (and below) the K&Fs are FOUR Woodies. The Woodies were the very earliest amps manufactured under the Fender brand name circa 1946/47 and they came in two cabinet finishes (natural and dark stained) with two different grill cloths (red and blue). Looks like we have two Princetons (the smaller ones, 8" speaker) and two Model 26 Deluxes (10" speaker) here. There was also one larger model with a 12" speaker called the "Professional". On the bottom shelf to the right of the blue-grill woodies, we have a couple of TV fronts tweeds (A #Deluxe and a #Princeton I believe?) and on the very bottom is a pair of pristine Princetons, narrow panel tweed (left) from the late 50s, and Brown panel (right) from early 60s.

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