Guitar history with Capt Lee Anderton

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👆 A short guitar history lesson with Capt Lee Anderton. The Anderton Family has a long heritage in the guitar trade stretching back to the 60s.

[guitarforlif]

you guys should do more history/chat videos very informative and the stories are really cool too. Cheers!

[RutgerVeltman]

awesome! These vids are great to listen to :D

[TweedDeluxe]

I bought my Fender Strat (new) in a sale in 1974 from Jon King Sounds in Kingston-on-Thames. Price in the sale was £195. It is natural, non-trem and came with a deluxe cardboard box! It was lurking in window cos everyone wanted sunburst trem models which were £35 more even in the sale. It was THE ONLY place to see a Fender Strat locally as Jon King was involved with top stars of the day!. The other place you could buy a Strat mail order was BELL Music Surbitton - but only from the catelogue...

[ErsiNur]

We need more tell us a story about gibbon's, martins or some wild times at the store :).

[pjisaacs]

Because I'm boring I know this!

They used to use banjo strings, because all guitar sets were 'jazz' sets which came with a wound third. In order to get lighter gauge on the top end, they'd throw away the wound third string, move the two unwound strings down (so second string becomes third etc.) and put the banjo string on top.

[MeanGreenMovies]

Could you do a video about your HSH strat?

[MojoPenguin]

The sad thing is that some of these million dollars guitars are hung somewhere in rich peoples houses behind glass...

[MJoeyDesign]

So is the Captain like the "owner" of andertons? D:

[jnnyism]

Exaggerated the cost a bit there. But they were very expensive in 1964. And the case was made in the uk. U didn't get the classic fender case that the yanks had