In 2001/2 I went to Sound Control, I had recently decided that all guitarists were crap, and I after 5 or so years playing bass would show them what guitar playing was.
I was going to write songs and play guitar and do solos and stuff.
I’d seen a guitarist magazine review of this fancy blue Yamaha and it hung on the wall in the shop gleaming.
It didn’t work (a SC specialty), it had a loose volume pot and dicky jack socket. I know the DiMarzio pickups sounded great for the seconds they worked.
I ended up with a beautiful telecaster 72 custom instead.
But it always bothered me; I wanted the blue Yamaha with a bigsby.
Anyhow - they’ve cropped up occasionally, but seem to be abused.
this one is ok, a few marks - not bad for 23/24 years old.
Needs a clean and new strings.
But it seems to play well.
I shall report back.