It is an abomination.
By the mid 1980s, Fender Japan was making some very high quality instruments for reasonable prices. Fender decided that Fender Japan could have its own model... then designed and built the Performer guitar and Performer bass. They made them in 1985 and '86 and sold them for a few years.
Until a few months ago, my #1 bass was a Performer.
Ultra-narrow and thin 24-fret neck, 34" scale...
They're in nearly every book about Fender...
Last edited by VibroCount; 05-31-2004 at 06:59 AM.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger
I've only seen one of those. It was in the hands of Mike Kineally. He played some with Zappa, XTC, etc.
He had some kind of endorsment deal and was playing one at a gig I was at BITD.
Did it come with those 4 god-awful shirts too?Originally Posted by VibroCount
(teasing, just teasing VC)
That guitar looks like a Star Trek prop.
Paul, a couple years ago, and many years ago:
Paul these days:
Close, and of a similar temperment, fer sure...
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger
Of course I play a different bass now... newer, but yet, older, if you will:
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger
actually Fender Japan was making high end guitars before that... I have an `83 strat that came stock with full size pots, steel switch and US p`ups... it has a small sticker on the pickguard that reads pick-up made in USA.
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Yes, they were. By the mid-'80s, Fender thought so highly of them, they allowed Fender Japan to produce a model not made anywhere else -- not an international version of an American design.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger
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