The internet legend is now just another internet myth. No, Bill Kirchen, “The Titan of the Telecaster,” did not pick up his 1959 Fender in a trade with a stranger on a bus. “That story is an internet version of what really happened, and I really like the internet version better, but I’m not gonna sit here and lie to you,” laughed Kirchen, though like all such stories, there is some element of truth in it. “It was actually a co-worker at the motorcycle messenger service and we sat on this bench together, waiting to go deliver blueprints in San Francisco by motorcycle, and he had the Tele and I had the (Gibson) SG and we traded,” he said. “But it’s a much better story that we were...
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