Re: (TV) "the fire " video/ - Jazzmasters

[Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>]

Rex's post made me want to check out prices for vintage Jazzmasters.  Not
cheap, is right. This site:
http://tinyurl.com/cqy8s6e
currently lists over a
dozen of mostly 1960s & 1959 ones.The average price for that era looks to be
maybe around $6,000, with 1959 ones going for $9,000, although later reissues
from the '00s are a lot cheaper. I recall a Tom interview where he said in the
mid '70s used ones could be had for just $150. As Rex says, apparently a lot
of other companies, Yamaha & others,  made Jazzmaster knock offs in the '60s &
'70s. Best to have the real thing! Wikipedia says Fender likely stopped
manufacturing the model in 1976, although it took till 1980 for inventory to
get sold.  After that, the model seems to have gained more & more in
popularity, suggesting Fender's discontinuing of the Jazzmaster, & belatedly
reissuing it a few decades later, was rather poor company timing!
-Bob
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 From: Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>
To:
Verlaine List <tv@obbard.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:20:41 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) "the fire " video/
 

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Bob
Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> There must a whole lot of
> Jazzmaster &
Jaguar players out there today whose use of them derives
> partly
> or wholly,
directly or indirectly, from Tom having made those once unloved,
> unpopular
guitars semi-famous. Except Tom doesn't play them anymore!
>

And god knows
they're neither cheap nor unloved these days!  I've only
gotten to play one
once... a legit Jazzmaster, that is, I've logged many
hours on some knockoffs
and a weird humbucker-laden Jag a friend owns...
but it pushed me to some
interesting places.  Despite my TV fascination
I've never owned a classic
configuration single coil electric... weird... I
do love them, I've just never
had the money for a good one, and no interest
in going half ass...
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