I remember clearly walking into a guitar store, (years ago, when I was much younger) greeted by a rather elderly sales person who would ask me if he could be of any help. I told him I was just browsing through the in-store selection, probably something more suited for rock & the likes. I proceeded to look at the Fenders & stopped in front of an attractive sunburst Telecaster hung up on the rack but the sales chap told me the Tele is for country music only & gave a voluntary demo. He fingerpicked his clean licks from start to end but I politely told him that's not my playing style & I'm more of a distortion person. On this note he told me to consider the Stratocaster instead because it's for rock music but I insisted the Telecaster would be my choice; if Danny Gatton could do it all with his Tele, I should check one out. The natural question which followed was- who in Telecasterdom was Danny Gatton?
Those were the days... The sales person in the above encounter is no longer working in that guitar store but the memory of him saying those things would live on in me. Because it's fatal narrow mindedness, that's why.
