Fiesta Red???

[dave robinson]

Me too Ecca this is it . . . . . . .gallery/image.php?album_id=18&image_id=635&view=no_count

[JimN]

No salmon Pink. No Flamingo Pink. No Barbi doll Pink. No arguments:

No arguments ?

I'll argue until I'm blue in the face.

It was pink.

It was pink.

It was pink.

There were pink Fender guitars, Ecca. I've posted some pics of pink examples farther back along this thread. No-one is saying (as far as I can see) that Hank's Stratocaster was pink. My claims are limited to asserting that some Fenders in the early sixties (principally Stratocasters, Jazzmasters, Jaguars and Jazz Basses) were finished in a pinker colour than FR. I remember seeig them at the time and I have seen several examples recently.

JN

[ecca]

I couldn't care less what anybody says.
As far as I'm concerned the guitar that I saw Hank play on stage in 1960 was pink.
Even 'experts' can go play with their red guitars if they want.
No amount of twaddle about lighting or photos or colour formulation will deviate my brain from that.

[JimN]

Let's nitpick this one, Ecca...

What approximate date in 1961?

Were the group all using red/pink Fenders?

JN

[dave robinson]

Let's nitpick this one, Ecca...

What approximate date in 1961?

Were the group all using red/pink Fenders?

JN

Who mentioned 1961 ? Ecca is talking 1960.

[ecca]

Actually, it could have been 1961, it may well have been for my 13th birthday at Cannock, Staffs.
I'm sure somebody will say when that was.
With regard to what anybody else was playing, I have no idea.
I only had eyes for Hank.

[dave robinson]

Actually, it could have been 1961, it may well have been for my 13th birthday at Cannock, Staffs.
I'm sure somebody will say when that was.
With regard to what anybody was playing, I have no idea.
I only had eyes for Hank.

Blimey, I didn't know you were that way Ecca . . . . . . . . . .

[ecca]

Wait till you see my make-up next time I'm up at North Notts Dave..... dear.

[des mcneill]

I've decided to join in at long last. I saw the Shads about 61 in Belfast, playing matching guitars and they were red with a very definite pink hue. At the time everyone here refered to them as alternately Flamingo or Salmon pink, - we didn't know if Fender called them by that name and we were not refering to any catalogue colour,we simply made up the name because that,to us described it, - mind you the Flamingo part was obviously misleading. The Fenders that eventually came into the shops were very definitely more pink than red and I still occasionally see the odd original guitar. Whether this is what Fender called Fiesta red I don't know but Ecca is right, - what we saw was medium-dark PINK rather than red.

Des.

[Didier]

I saw the Shads about 61 in Belfast, playing matching guitars and they were red with a very definite pink hue.

At this time it wasn't anymore the first Strat with maple neck received from the US in 1959, but the set of Strats with rosewood neck supplied by JMI in march or april 1961 when they became UK distibutors.
It's been reported that Strats were mostly supplied in sunburst, and then repainted in red by the UK distributor to match the local demand for this colour. May be that the Shadows' Strats were in this case, and it's not sure that this red was identical to the original US fiesta red...

Didier