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Ultimate Guitar publishes if not a terribly original, but pretty well researched piece on Blackmore’s Stratocasters, both the ones to be smashed and the ones to be carefully kept under lock and key.

Ritchie Blackmore had two moods: smashing Stratocasters onstage and obsessing over how a Strat neck feels.

They might seem like total opposites, but he indulged both in parallel for decades, forcing Fender to eventually find an answer to the second one.

Continue reading in Ultimate Guitar.

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