Fender releases Billy Corgan Stratocaster

Confession time: I'm a Strat man, and I happen to think Billy Corgan is an incredible guitarist, so I'm not exactly unbiased about this blog item.

Ahem... In June, Fender released a Billy Corgan signature Stratocaster guitar. With a maple body available in Olympic White and Flat Black, the Corgan Strat has been, according to Fender, "meticulously crafted to Corgan’s exacting specifications and specifically designed with custom-wound pickups to get the high-gain sound and signature mid-’90s buzz-saw tone that helped make Corgan such a distinctive and influential guitarist."

Click here to drool, and see below for the man himself playing a Strat that is definitely not Olympic White or Flat Black, in a video so old that not only does Billy have a full head of hair, he's also playing with James Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky in silver suits straight out of the what-were-they-thinking pile. Those were the days.