they just went back to the basics, they listened to their loyal fenderooligans and the result nga ay ang 2008 am std...
imo they should have just made a new guitar line for those design alterations...
the am series was always been about innovation, experimenting in the unknown to achieve something iconic,
the new one is a back to basic one, which i think is good guitar pero sana gumawa nalang sila ng ibang line of series guitar for such a model. there's nothing new about the new am std. yung 2 point trem at huge fret lang ata ang nag stay. nothing modern about it anymore
dapat ginawa nila katulad ng vintage series, it has the hotrod vintage series which ads modern upgrades to the vintage series.
the MIM classic player series kicks the am std's pwet in terms of hot rodding the tele and strat. and it's cheaper.