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Janelle Borg

“There's so much baggage that comes with a Strat”: Why Chris Buck ditched his Fender Strat in favor of this underrated Yamaha model

Chris Buck of Cardinal Black performs at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on December 11, 2021 in London, England.

The tonal fingerprints of Chris Buck’s Yamaha Revstar are all over his band Cardinal Black’s repertoire. After being a Fender player for so many years – even serving as Fender’s demo guy in 2019 for the company's Vintera series – Buck has set his Fenders aside and gone full throttle with his affinity for the elusive Revstar.

“I walked into a guitar shop in Cardiff and the Revstar had just been released. This would have been like late 2015, maybe,” he recalls in an upcoming Guitar World interview on YouTube.

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