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Post subject: Jazzmaster's 50th
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:39 pm
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You needed to have been there!!

It's hard to believe, given the icon that the Stratocaster has become, but to Fender players back then, if the Strat was a Corvette, the Jazzmaster was a Ferrari. It first appeared with an anodized pickguard. Very different! and, I suspect, it's image was not raunchy enough for rock.

I don't believe Leo intended it for that genre...given it's name. Until the surf genre, which the voice of that guitar seemed suited for, it's future was uncertain. If my memory serves me, that guitar was priced at $349.00, nearly $100 more than the Strat, so price point had to be a consideration as well.

It wasn't the Jazzmaster that my friend and bandmate went for later on. . It was a white Jaguar and a Dual Showman amp, and then his '58 Strat and Concert amp became mine.


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Been There - Done That $349.00 for the guitar and $52.50 for the case.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:08 pm
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sewkid wrote:
Been There - Done That $349.00 for the guitar and $52.50 for the case.
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AWESOME: One of my former bandmates still has the black Gretsch Duo Jet he bought in '58...case, receipts, tags, catalog.

I can't believe I actually recalled the price correctly. Comes from reading all those Fender catalogs we used to request in the mail years ago.

Man, that was a very expensive guitar in those days.


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