1975 Fender Fairy tale Advertisements

Riaan-Combrink

I really liked this. From Fenders Facebook page.

In 1975, when fantasy themes were prominent in rock music (think Roger Dean’s classic Yes album covers and H.R. Giger’s eerie pre-Alien artwork on 1973 Emerson, Lake & Palmer epic Brain Salad Surgery), artist Bruce Wolfe illustrated six surreally colorful and cleverly conceived fairy tale-themed Fender advertisements. Elaborately trippy in imagery and copy, these popular ads ran in 1975 and 1976 in publications such as Guitar Player, Rolling Stone and National Lampoon, and in Fender’s highly collectible Collected Works of Fender 1976 catalog. They represent what many consider as Fender ad design at its most artistic.

I only found three on there, though...

arjunmenon

Ha ha..Excellent stuff!

singemonkey

Those are neat.

And I see Goldilocks is sitting on my amp. Must mean it's just right.

Psean

Cool stuff! I especially like the hookah smoking caterpillar and the wolf. I'm not familiar with the old Fender effects pedal but the one's that Wolfie's playing look pretty sweet.

shaundtsl

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Norman86

singemonkey wrote: Those are neat.

And I see Goldilocks is sitting on my amp. Must mean it's just right.

? well played!!

DonovanB

singemonkey wrote: Those are neat.

And I see Goldilocks is sitting on my amp. Must mean it's just right.

is that a bass she's playing? a 4 string is not too low, not too high...

singemonkey

Donovan Banks wrote:
singemonkey wrote: Those are neat.

And I see Goldilocks is sitting on my amp. Must mean it's just right.
is that a bass she's playing? a 4 string is not too low, not too high...

She's also not playing it swinging by her knees. Neither does she have it jacked up to her chin.

IceCreamMan

Fender ,what a awesomely great company ..... brand whore i am

aja

Fender blender! I would love on of those pedals...

ajileguitar

There is one more ad in the fairy tale series. It features a fender Starcaster being played by Snow White with the Seven Dwarves.

Unfortunately I can't get a half decent pic of it...so..

Here's a link to Fenders web site;
http://fender.artehouse.com/perl/collection.pl?collectionID=1842&productTypeID=1&ckon=leftNav

They are quite expensive to buy, I wish I had kept some of the posters that I had from that era.

singemonkey

Rosewood Telecasters - proof against all evil

ajileguitar

ajileguitar wrote: There is one more ad in the fairy tale series. It features a fender Starcaster being played by Snow White with the Seven Dwarves.

Unfortunately I can't get a half decent pic of it...so..

Here's a link to Fenders web site;
http://fender.artehouse.com/perl/collection.pl?collectionID=1842&productTypeID=1&ckon=leftNav

They are quite expensive to buy, I wish I had kept some of the posters that I had from that era.

Ha, I found a better pic of that ad;
Snow White and the Queen. Starcaster Guitar

And one I didn't know about;
Jack and the Beanstock. Fender Precision Bass, Baseman 10 amp.

Here is link to the page I found them on;

http://learntoplayguitar.rarebooksource.com/Fender_Guitar_Pictures.html

singemonkey

Ah. It's a Coronado, not a rose tele :-[

shaundtsl

Is the witch playing a gibson?

ajileguitar

singemonkey wrote: Ah. It's a Coronado, not a rose tele :-[

HaHa. Hi Singemonkey, I think you are having a go at me now...It's a Starcaster, identical to mine. ?

IceCreamMan

shaundtsl wrote: Is the witch playing a gibson?

mmmmm well spotted...

chris77

IceCreamMan wrote: Fender ,what a awesomely great company ..... brand whore i am

+1 ? 8) 8)