- Listnin' 2 Blind Melon's 2nd album 'Soup' after re-reading about sad death of Hoon in '95. Great Album, some stuning bass work on here too.. 
No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the Stratocaster to revolutionize the world of rock guitar playing.
Consequently, there are perhaps few people as deserving of the Recording Academy’s technical award as guitar maker Clarence “Leo” Fender, who will be given the honor posthumously at an invitation-only ceremony today at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The award was created to recognize “contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.”
Fender, contrary to common perception, didn’t invent the electric guitar. He just made it functional, affordable, reliable and capable of being mass-produced. The introduction of the Telecaster model in 1951, followed by the Stratocaster three years later, both on the heels of the electric bass– which Fender also perfected — literally changed the sound of popular music.
