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Well...I've been working on my dream guitar since I was 12. Will it be released by Fender anytime soon? Probably not.. But I agree that eventually (given the patterns of history), that there will inevitably be a new guitar shape, sound, brand, etc. Will they follow the trend of the Gibson Robot? Maybe. Will the Parker Fly play a hand in the new direction of guitar ergonomics? Perhaps. The fact is this...There will be a new Leo Fender. There is bound to be another Orville Gibson. Right now, somewhere, there is a kid who dreams of becoming a luthier ( he/she at this point is probably prone to eating paste while teacher is talking, but they're out there somewhere). The fun part is to imagine what guitars will be 50 years from now. Or...even more amazing...is to think what instruments haven't been invented yet, that will some day shape the landscape of future music. However, I would like to think (given the current & ever-growing market for "vintage" guitars), that there is now & hopefully will always be, a 12 year old kid out there somewhere, picking up a Tele, Strat, Les Paul, or what have you...for the first time. There lies the next Jimi, SRV, Clapton or Page...The future is the most exciting concept we can possibly fathom, my friends...very exciting indeed.
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"I'm still married to my first wife...and that's my first guitar...she don't talk back to me, she talks for me..." -Stevie ray Vaughan
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