The episode's question: how did affordable, durable, electrified gear reach working musicians?
Leo Fender — orange-grove kid, bookkeeper, radio repairman; Fender Radio Service (1938), public address systems, Doc Kauffman and K&F
George Fullerton — machinist and weekend band player, hired February 1948; what he is (and isn't) credited with
The contrast with last episode: Les Paul the inventor-performer vs. the non-playing repairman and his musician partner
Esquire → Broadcaster → "Nocaster" → Telecaster: not the first solid-body, but the first mass-produced, commercially successful one; bolt-on neck, slab body, built to be fixed
The Stratocaster (1954): Bill Carson's complaints, the contoured body, custom colors and Fiesta Red
The Precision Bass (callback to last season's bass episode) and the amps: tweed, the Champ, the Bassman and its road to Marshall, Dick Dale and the Showman
The 1965 CBS sale, "pre-CBS," Music Man, and George and Leo together again at G&L
Listening Spine: Luther Perkins behind Johnny Cash, James Burton on "Susie Q," Buddy Holly, "Green Onions," Dick Dale's "Misirlou," James Jamerson at Motown, Dylan at Newport
Blues Progression: Muddy Waters needing to be heard in Chicago, his loud 1958 England tour with a Telecaster, then Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Clapton and "Layla" through a tweed Champ, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan
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