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George William Fullerton (March 7, 1923 – July 4, 2009) was a longtime associate of Leo Fender and, along with Fender and Dale Hyatt, a co-founder of G&L Musical Instruments. He is credited with design contributions that led to the manufacture of the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar.
8 Φεβ 2018 · I interviewed George Fullerton in the early ‘90s for The Fender Book, my first book about Fender and its instruments. George was one of the first employees at Leo Fender’s base in Fullerton, California, coming on board at age 24 in the opening months of 1948.
Fullerton first met Leo Fender in a park where musicians played; Fender provided sound systems for bands, and George began helping Leo at such concerts. “Leo had a radio repair shop, and I used to buy records from him,” Fullerton told Vintage Guitar in 1991.
The day before his death in 1991 at the age of 81, the single-minded Leo had been at his work bench at G&L, the company he started in 1979 with his longstanding colleague George Fullerton. “Leo certainly was a hardworking person,” George told me, “and he was not pretentious.
13 Νοε 2023 · With the partnership between Leo and Music Man’s management at a breaking point, Leo decided to found a new company. In 1979, he and George Fullerton founded G&L (short for George & Leo) with Dale Hyatt, a sales guru that worked with them during the Fender era.
In 1938, with a borrowed $600 (equivalent to $12,987 in 2023), Fender and his wife Esther returned to Fullerton, and started his own radio repair shop, Fender Radio Service. Soon, musicians and band leaders began coming to him for public address systems, which he built, rented, and sold.
This is the story of the final days of an icon. Image: G&L Musical Instruments / BBE Sound. By Justin Beckner. “It was a cold rainy day in March. Leo wasn’t doing well, so George [Fullerton] took him home early that day, which was unusual, because he would usually stay until three or four in the afternoon.
