He couldn't tune a guitar. He couldn't play a chord. And yet — without him — rock and roll as we know it could not exist. This is the cinematic true story of Leo Fender — born Clarence Leonidas Fender on August 10, 1909 in a barn on his parents' orange grove between Anaheim and Fullerton, California. The boy who lost his left eye to a tumor at age eight and wore a glass eye for the rest of his life. The teenager who saw a homemade radio at his uncle John West's auto-electric shop in Santa Maria and never recovered. The accounting major who never took a single course in electrical engineering. The bookkeeper who got fired from a tire company in 1938 and used six hundred borrowed dollars and a Ford Model A as collateral to open a small radio repair shop on South Spadra Avenue in Fullerton — Fender's Radio Service. The man whose first shop got wiped ou ...