Forrest Lee Jr’s bio:
Born 1970 in California. His mother gave birth on the shop floor while assembling a Telecaster in Fender’s Fullerton California plant.
Forrest refuses to stoop to the level of making up a bio full of lies and deceit. Which is why he won’t comment on his ROCK STAR status. Or that he is solely responsible for creating the world’s first bender that breaks B strings in 1/10th of a second. His design was refined over the years and doesn’t break anything except records for the most over used B-bender on recordings nobody will ever hear.
His countless years of being on the road have driven him to stay secluded in a studio recording music (if you wanna call it that) for the pure enjoyment of hearing himself play.
Matt Rae’s bio
Matt Rae is normal… Except he was born in 1970 like Forrest (weird coincidence?)
He won’t play unless he doesn’t have to stoop to using a bender (or benders) as a crutch. He believes the guitar is pure. His is an instrument of healing and passion. Matt could have been President of the United States but decided to be an ambassador of benderless Telecaster. We salute you Matthew, for playing the Esquire without bending the rules.
Matt is too kind to refer to himself as a ROCK STAR. But we all know who the chosen one is.
Due to fear of legal action, we can’t comment on Matt’s association with the Bendegos.
Tim Wallis bio:
Tim was born in the mountains of Decatur Illinois in May of 1962. His mother and father took little Timmy to a circus when he was four years old. He enjoyed the show so much that his parents sold him to the guy who ran the circus. Benny’s Big Top Circus immediately put him to work as an elephant cleaner. It didn’t take long for Benny to see Tim had some real talent. He was promoted to assistant manager trainee of stall cleaners at the age of 11.
As the years went by, Tim took an unhealthy liking to a fellow circus employee who went by the stage name of “Carla the Contortionist”. In her time off, she played the guitar with her feet and whistled through her nose. Though she tried, Carla couldn’t teach Tim how to whistle threw his nose or other unmentionable things she wanted him to do, so he took up the guitar instead. Within 15 months of Carla showing Tim just a few chords, he learned to play the Lithuanian National Anthem. Within 7 short years, he could play most of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.
At 44, with only a couple of songs in his pocket and a dream in his heart, he left the Circus to start a new solo career as a guitar player. The gigs didn’t come easy. The bar crowds weren’t really into National Anthems and Children’s tunes, but club owners would let him play guitar if he also cleaned the toilets.
One night after a gig, Tim met two guitar players at a Tupperware party that said they’d give him a job on the road shining their shoes. So, Tim traveled with the guys to and from their gigs, all the while of watching and learning their guitar techniques. One night, one of the guys had a reaction to some bad bologna he’d stolen and ate. He asked Tim if he could set in for him. Tim was both excited and scared at the same time. This would be the first time he’d be able to show the guys what he’d learned from them and play in front of a sober audience. The gig was a smash and the guys asked Tim to join the group, but only if he agreed to keep shining their shoes.
The rest as they say is history except for one thing that you didn’t know. Those two guitar players were Forrest Lee Jr. and Matt Rae. To this day, Tim says the 2 best things that ever happened to him was saving that bologna that his parents had given him and the guys showing him that you play guitar with your hands and not your feet.
Tim and Carla now live happily ever after in a trailer park next to salvage yard and raise cats that they sell to area Korean Restaurants.
Now you know the rest of the story…Good day.
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