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I got a Fender Swinger yesterday.

Tina Weymouth has a Swinger




and Ben Kweller has 2(I think).

Just love the odd birds!! Congrats!!

I think I have the rest of the headstock in a drawer, somewhere, I'll look.

octagon wrote:Tina Weymouth has a Swinger

I'll swing with her.

Fender should have done a cross marketing campaign with Polaroid. Anyone else old enough to recognize the camera girl?

A rare guitar indeed. My big book of Fender guitars described the Swinger as "leftover sawed-up Bass V bodies with Mustang bridges and necks".

I'm not partial to it, but my youngest cousin who's 13, who loves odd-looking guitars (his dream guitar, '67 style Flying V ), would go crazy over this.

octagon wrote:Fender should have done a cross marketing campaign with Polaroid. Anyone else old enough to recognize the camera girl?

Ali McGraw.





Always wanted a Swinger, especially when I was younger, but couldn't justify their prices when its really just a musicmaster tonally.

Now I really want a Maverick.

Thanks! It's a tiny little thing,even compared to the other Fender short scale guitars.

I've never noticed how much my own "Barefoot Sentinel" looks like the swinger (check the top horns) However I will modify the design a bit for the next one.

I like shorty fenders, they usually have a fierce sound

emac.

weemac wrote:I've never noticed how much my own "Barefoot Sentinel" looks like the swinger (check the top horns) However I will modify the design a bit for the next one.

I like shorty fenders, they usually have a fierce sound

emac.

I wouldn't worry too much about it looking like the Swinger.
















it looks a lot more like this!

H'mm it does look a bit Mouridian.....

Eden.

Anyone from New York City area old enough to remember Come On? They were part of the "No Wave" scene back around 1976-1980. Elena Glasberg of Come On used to play a Fender Swinger. Here is some info about Come On(Link)

This is is some more interesting info I found about COME ON:

George Elliot(an avant-folksinger music critic) met the Talking Heads trio at a sound check at CBGB in 1975, was at every show that weekend. Moving soon to Manhattan (tempted by the possibility of joining as a 4th member) he lived next to Ralf the German film student in the East Village and so began their apartment jams. Ralf's writing partner Jamie, a native New Yorker, began to contribute words to their first sketches "Blue Drink" and "Fly Swatter". Page was a RISD airbrush artist (same era/social network as Talking Heads) with a spacious rehearsal loft and drumming experience. They met Elena (a precocious high school student) at a holiday party, and these four members banded together and collaborated for the next four years.

They played their first show at Copperfields in the summer '77 and continued with subsequent shows at Max's Kansas City, CBGB, Xenon, Hurrah!, Club 57, and Irving Plaza, etc. One memorable show was when David of the Talking Heads brought his pal Brian Eno, his pal David Bowie, and their pal Bianca Jagger to see Come On play at CBGB. The 30 people in the slow-night audience swelled to 300 by the time the set was over...

Come On befriended Klaus Nomi performing at the New Wave Vaudeville Show (see The Nomi Song), and George and Page figured into his roman candle of a career, even sharing production-management team. These two [it turns out lifelong] friends merged with members of Nomi's troupe to form the NY show band Strange Party [album unreleased] The duo released the unfinished opera by themselves and Nomi in 2007, Za Bakdaz.



Page is now a busy Hollywood graphic artist, collecting instruments and re-embracing music; Ralf and Jamie were bar-owners in the 1980s and the former is now a Texas developer, the latter resides and works in NYC. Elena molds young collegiate minds and is an expert on Antarctica. George still persistently 'serves the Muse.'

'New wave' is the label Come On fit best under, often linked to their friends and inspirations, the early Talking Heads. However their sound was more simple, dissonant, driving and experimental than the Heads'. The compilation of masters, demos, and live songs on Heliocentric CDs New York City 1976-80 came out in 1999; and a shorter cd of rarities Disneyland + a couple years later.

brilliant, loved it.

Love the Swinger too