It was approximately two-to-three years that Fernandes seems to have been in a legal endorsement contract with Brad Gillis to produce his signature guitar. Of course Fernandes instructed these manufacturers as to the exact specifications and the exact build quality of each order. The Japanese shops that manufactured guitars under the Fernandes/Burny brand names during the nineteen-eighties are known by their short names as Matsumoku, Tokai, and then Kawai. Just like many brands in Japan at the time Fernandes contracted with manufacturing companies inside Japan to make guitars for them. That said, Fernandes never actually manufactured any guitars at all. Fernandes was a marketing group of guitar luthiers and enthusiests. In Japan Fernandes had achieved a certain amount of success with their copies of well known Gibson and Fender guitars. These started to appear in 1984 and even more so in 1985.įernandes Burny prior to the mid-1980s and during this period had become known as a guitar brand. Like the catalogs that we've shown here there were various advertisements that were made public around the world. As it seems Fernandes coordinated the official release of the Brad Gillis model with advertising that included Brad Gillis. Just like any other production run of guitars there were various changes throughout the run. We know the model today as the Brad Gillis Model. In and about 1984 Fernandes goes on to produce a red and black guitar. Some History of the Fernandes Brad Gillis Stratocaster Much attention was directed toward Brad Gillis was due to the fact that he came in and filled the guitar player slot with Ozzy Ozbourne on the Diary of a Mad Man Tour in 1982 after the tragic death of Randy Rhoads.
In 1984 Night Ranger and Brad Gillis became very popular around the world.
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