#73

I don’t mean to dismiss it, it just feels like an odd piece, a mismatch of name and guitar.

The low price impresses me though. I’d imagined more. I don’t know about costs of others: my point was more that people wanting an infinite sustain guitar probably don’t care about the name on them.

Equally I’m not opposed to them at Eric’s vehement level but I’d not realised the shift in emphasis @Icarus-Smicarus mentioned. 20 years back they definitely seemed to appeal to people who I guess felt like they would be better at playing if they had a much better guitar.

Being more about special ideas, like stuffing a humbucker in a Television is nice.

#74

Best Radiohead guitar

#75

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bit drastic

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#76

that’s the most 1990s guitar i’ve ever seen

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#77

the Graham Coxon signature Tele is gorgeous, nothing particularly out-there but just a really beautiful guitar

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#78

I would like to have tried one of these out, but they are recently no longer available anywhere:

https://www.andertons.co.uk/p/ENW2EGNH3/solid-body-electric-guitars/epiphone-wilshire-phantomatic-in-emerald-green

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#79

Just bought it. Cheers mate.

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#80

$99 apparently https://reverb.com/news/epiphone-announces-new-99-dollars-les-paul

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#81

@xylo I worked on the marketing team for fender for 9 years and the first electric I bought was the Jim Adkins tele, the transparent black one. Mine’s a prototype tho, has block inlays and the f-hole is slightly bigger and a little closer to the base, also no signature. It’s a sweet guitar for sure. Not sure they have any other neck-through teles in the pipeline, or any others w p90s.

I was able to work on the branding for quite a few of the artist models that came out during my time there (my favorite project was the Cobain Jag) and one thing we ALWAYS tried to push the artist to avoid was signatures on the front of the headstock. Next best thing was sig on the back headstock but we always tried to sell them on putting it on the neck plate, as this is something that could easily be swapped out if the customer really didnt want the band/artist affiliation.

The Marr Jag was/is so popular cos it fixed just about everything wrong with a Jaguar. Loads of people buy that that dont know who Marr or the Smiths are.

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#82

i’d partially agree with that, I am glad it has made the staytrem bridge and tremolo available, I guess the pickup selector thing is easier to use, but the upper horn is confusing, would have preferred that to stay as it was. Plus I don’t like that the pickups are not reverse wound reverse polarity, presumably that means there is no humless middle position available, seems to address a non-existent issue that Johnny Marr thinks he can hear the magnets pulling in different directions

#83

just making sure this gets posted:

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#84

That American Professional Jaguar does everything that the Marr does apart from the bare knuckle pickups.

#85

oh nice, havent checked out the am pro series yet.

#87

I’m a sucker for matching headcaps.

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#88

this is a few years old now but it’s good

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#89

Yup, same with the Mascis JM.

Plus Marr has only been using Jags from like Modest Mouse onwards so it’s not necessarily suited to Smiths fanboys

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#90

these are suuuuper ugly guitars!

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#91

the blonde one is nice not really a fan of the burst. different strokes n all.

#92

The Mascis one was like how can someone get their hands on an inexpensive fender that looks a little different and isnt one of the standard five colors that every other model comes in.

#93

Think f holes look terrible and crass on all guitars.