AndyTravis

Oh. This guy. This is who I had “fun” with over a Yamaha. If you want one, wait until someone else is selling.

I know, hate that guy

Had the fretless version for a while, what a bass!

Think Sims is your man for Sparkle finishes.

Battery compartment

Just a sound guy, offered to pick a bass up for me, and turned up, no stress. wish we’d had time for a brew and more chat. Lovely bloke. one of the many sound people who make this page worth being on.

Well...if you’d stop texting me rude messages

“YAMAHA”

I don’t press buttons to ignore you...I just do it 😂😂😂

Its in unbelievable nick for 27 ish years of age

took a good bit of cleaning, was like a dusty headache. Wearing some BB knobs now too.

Pink Attitude Special...about 1991/2

@dub_junkie that ovation is beautiful

Mums mate - she’s a right goer...

Noice!!!

The thing is, when Gibson were going bust, everyone was saying “they need to go back to what they do best, Les Paul’s/SG’s/335’s!” And were criticised for all their “innovations” (which incidentally were poop...) Fender and Gibson do what they do, Imagine Levi’s making tracksuit bottoms or Dr Martens making tennis shoes. It just doesn’t work that way. Fender have a staple 5/10 models and have to work with that. They try stuff and it doesn’t always sell - there are 100’s of models which didn’t stay long. I sold Fenders for years as my Job, and all the weird and wonderful sat on the wall while black strats and white telecasters turned over in huge numbers. For years their best selling Telecaster was the butterscotch 52, their second biggest selling telecaster was the left handed version. After that it was a natural finish USA with a black pickguard and the Baja Tele in blackguard blonde...etc. Its about an “Icon” thing for players. Jaguars/Jazzmasters/Mustangs were sort of dead until Grunge - the artists bought them because they were reputable branded guitars but cheap. Then in the early 2000’s the 72 Custom Tele/Thinline Tele/Tele Deluxe were in vogue because of all the hip indie bands using them for that same reason - before that they couldn’t raise an eyebrow let alone a big ticket price. They have a legacy and they’re bound to it, damned if they do (by some) and damned if they don’t (by others). More stringent quality control and they’d be away - but that adds cost, and that’s why a Deluxe USA Jazz is £1800 or so and a USA Sadowsky is about £4500. Incidentally - I side by side compared a USA 2010 Deluxe, A USA sadowsky and an Alleva Coppolo (check spelling) and the Fender held its own, massively. I preferred it in sound to the other two and it felt as nice as the Sadowsky. It was just a bit heavier than the other 2. It was also about £1449 at the time. They should open up 12 month contracts to us all and see if we could do a better job. Anyhow, as someone said earlier - if you weren’t thinking of buying a Fender this year - these probably aren’t aimed at you...I’m off to play my yamaha 😂

Still like the original dimension

I like the gold jazz...white pickguard and it’s sort of a Norman Watt Roy signature...

Blummin eck. Looks a damn sight better than it did when I first met most of it!

It’s in Cardiff now, wasn’t for me

Nice enough, replacement for the classic series then?

I conversely hate driving 😂😂😂

Pink innit?!

Well, the BB’s continue to be a firm favourite...but upon reflection while the sound of the attitude with a mudbucker wasn’t what I needed; I loved the feel and shape. So this is happening. Back to 4 Yamahas. A Full ‘Trav’