new Fender American Performer series

[timtam]

A pile of Am Performer demos hit youtube today from various stores ... GC, MF, SW, etc. This was one of the rare ones that showed the JM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_vSKhGFShU

The Mustang got little or no time except this almost content-free effort ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5hfuTWKsw

Although looks like Fender did release this on the Mustang a few days ago ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvVJ_EH1D-s

[Marrcissist]

I was really excited, seeing an American made Jazzmaster for $1,099. Thinking it was a steal, so I’m looking at the colors, and then see a picture of the back, and it’s a string through, and then had to go back and look at the front shot. I couldn’t believe that they’s Mess up a perfectly good Jazzmaster with a hard tail. Really Fender? You’ve all ready got the monstrosities that are the player series, anniversary series, and even the professional. Can’t we have a well built, American made Jazzmaster in a few custom colors, with a rhythm/lead circuit, with a working tremolo and bridge (like the LPB Johnny Marr Jag does), single coil pickups, and an unbound dot neck. Is it really that hard!

[Embenny]

I was really excited, seeing an American made Jazzmaster for $1,099. Thinking it was a steal, so I’m looking at the colors, and then see a picture of the back, and it’s a string through, and then had to go back and look at the front shot. I couldn’t believe that they’s Mess up a perfectly good Jazzmaster with a hard tail. Really Fender? You’ve all ready got the monstrosities that are the player series, anniversary series, and even the professional. Can’t we have a well built, American made Jazzmaster in a few custom colors, with a rhythm/lead circuit, with a working tremolo and bridge (like the LPB Johnny Marr Jag does), single coil pickups, and an unbound dot neck. Is it really that hard!

Um...it's not a hard tail? It's a strat trem, which is equally puzzling. I'm not sure where you saw a string-through hardtail JM.

[Marrcissist]

Didn’t mean to say hard tail, my bad. Either way, the strat style trem looks awful on a Jazzmaster.

[Tehz_]

I played one of the performer Telecasters tonight. Really great! Felt a little bit higher-quality than I remember the American Special series being. I dont think I would pay $1,100 for one, but I’m sure we’ll be able to find used ones for reasonably less money within the next handful of months. In a year? Easily.