A closer look
Clarence Leonidas Fender revolutionized modern music by inventing the Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars despite never actually learning how to play a single chord on the instruments that bore his name, operating instead as an electronics repairman and a saxophone enthusiast who simply wanted to build a better, louder musical tool for local country bands to use in crowded dance halls, resulting in a spectacular irony that the man responsible for the signature sound of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and practically every rock star to ever smash an instrument on stage would not have been able to pass a basic audition for a high school garage band, demonstrating quite clearly that you do not need to possess any actual talent in a specific artistic field as long as you are the one selling the equipment to the dreamers
