{"id":14139,"date":"2024-04-18T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:37:19","slug":"the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest Fender Stratocaster player you\u2019ve never heard of | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Gallagher | Jim Perrin\u2019s Country Diary | Tory vacuum | A clear conscience | Smartphone addiction<\/p>\n<p>Nice to see Andy Welch\u2019s article on the Fender Stratocaster reaching the age of 70 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/apr\/10\/fender-stratocaster-turns-70\">\u2018With a Strat you can rule the world!\u2019 Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything, 10 April<\/a>). It\u2019s a shame he omitted to mention the late Irish blues guitarist Rory\u00a0Gallagher, who played what was \u2013 and is \u2013 arguably the most iconically road-worn Stratocaster ever. He was a shy and modest musician, and remains underrated. When Jimi Hendrix was asked what it felt like to be the best guitarist in the world, he replied: \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t know, ask Rory Gallagher.\u201d<br \/><strong>Graham Mort<\/strong><br \/><em>Burton-in-Lonsdale, North Yorkshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It\u2019s such a joy to read Jim Perrin\u2019s lyrical prose, especially in praise of celandines, which are scattered everywhere at the moment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/13\/country-diary-standing-up-for-the-lesser-celandine-a-truly-sensitive-flower\">Country diary, 13 April<\/a>). Could I suggest that he turns his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the radiant but persecuted dandelion? <br \/><strong>Val Kirby<\/strong><br \/><em>Penrherber, Carmarthenshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/apr\/18\/the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f200e2741ae9fcf0af28e190c3483ee0d5baadfe\/0_11_5603_3362\/master\/5603.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3a7f088021118b927ea993cdd728b0dc\" title=\"The greatest Fender Stratocaster player you\u2019ve never heard of | Brief letters\" \/>Rory Gallagher | Jim Perrin\u2019s Country Diary | Tory vacuum | A clear conscience | Smartphone addiction<br \/>\nNice to see Andy Welch\u2019s article on the Fender Stratocaster reaching the age of 70 (\u2018With a Strat you can rule the world!\u2019 Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything, 10 April). It\u2019s a shame he omitted to mention the late Irish blues guitarist Rory\u00a0Gallagher, who played what was \u2013 and is \u2013 arguably the most iconically road-worn Stratocaster ever. He was a shy and modest musician, and remains underrated. When Jimi Hendrix was asked what it felt like to be the best guitarist in the world, he replied: \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t know, ask Rory Gallagher.\u201dGraham MortBurton-in-Lonsdale, North Yorkshire<br \/>\n\u2022 It\u2019s such a joy to read Jim Perrin\u2019s lyrical prose, especially in praise of celandines, which are scattered everywhere at the moment (Country diary, 13 April). Could I suggest that he turns his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the radiant but persecuted dandelion? Val KirbyPenrherber, Carmarthenshire Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Gallagher | Jim Perrin\u2019s Country Diary | Tory vacuum | A clear conscience | Smartphone addiction Nice to see Andy Welch\u2019s article on the Fender Stratocaster reaching the age of 70 (\u2018With a Strat you can rule the world!\u2019 Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything, 10 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The greatest Fender Stratocaster player you\u2019ve never heard of | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}