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Charlie Harding Introduces the Guitar Battle
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Sean Rameswaram introduces Charlie Harding — co-host of the Switched On Pop podcast and a guitar player surrounded by Fenders — to break down a brewing war in guitar culture. Fender has recently dispatched cease-and-desist letters to guitar makers — including small boutique US builders — ordering them to stop production, recall inventory, destroy their guitars, and pay money. The letters, Harding says, have triggered a fierce backlash from guitar YouTube, the de facto authority of guitar culture, which is calling this a PR catastrophe that will 'haunt Fender for years.'
Fender leveraged a default judgment from a Düsseldorf court to send cease-and-desist letters demanding small guitar makers destroy their instruments and pay reparations. Guitar YouTube erupted, calling it a PR catastrophe that would haunt Fender for years.
