LukeFRC

there was always that lad at school with a shirt that looked like that wasn't there? (possibly a generational thing - I knew @AndyTravis would know what I meant if nobody else)

Want me to do a photoshop job?

My take on... gold sparkle capri orange Bel air green shell pink blue glitter surfvgreen Dakota red burgundy mist ocean turquoise sherwood green shoreline gold

I did that one just for you

That flat black isn't the most exciting finish- ten min in photoshop and you can do some nicer things...

it does make Status/ACG/Overwater/Shuker/Sei et al more competitive on price...

+1

IMO about the time the a AVRI 62ri and 75ri became a 63ri And 74ri the finishes On the necks got a load thicker

Says a lot about how much he rates it though

my thought exactly.

But agree with you 100% on everything else - I think sometimes ppl want a predictable fender style instrument - whether Greco, Tokai or Sadowsky - Yamaha are a wee bit different but even then a few pages back someone was saying they had made on of the series more fender like and some have the P pup fender way around...

As far as I remember It was The Greco Brand made by Fujigen that became where Fender Japan was made - not Tokai .

ahhh Napoleon wins then for lengths if not weights!

also if the aim is to avoid litigation I do not think you would ever end up with a BB1200 as your flagship model.

I think that sometime around 1977 it seems to show Yamaha both setting themselves up for more export, and go for the high end with instruments like the BB1200. By the late 70's under the Yamaha brand as far as I can see it's all their own designs rather than copies of Fender or Gibson... I think the headstock protection in US domestic markets and the fabled lawsuit over a Gibson scroll was a wee bit later - after Yamaha had started doing their own thing.

that's a vintage mid 70's turdburst. stick that on a Fender and it would be worth big bucks now!

well they were closer the year before....

1977 when the BB range launched. They had a direct copy of a P bass called a PB400 in previous years...

it's arrived!!!

love it. My new profile pic

now due Monday....

thanks, heart you too LF