Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar

eggwheat · Post by **eggwheat** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:59 am

Anyone got any pics of this? I used to but have lost them..it's a heavily modified jazzmaster...body cut up and painted..etc

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:45 am

I think these are the pics of Robert Smith's Jazzmaster you're looking for, eggwheat?

Live in 1984 -

Live in 1986 -

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:11 am

Nice shots...

Here are two others...

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986/04/26 (picture by Barry Plummer)

One of the best know, somewhere, circa 1983 (LFI)

Enjoy

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:19 am

For details lovers...
Same picture, but with close ups of the body and peghead... wooooow...

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:22 am

Fall reverb wrote: Live in 1984 -

This one must have been shot during the Banshees's "Hyaena tour", in Paris, 1984 (picture by Terrasson)

Superfuzz · Post by **Superfuzz** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:30 am

poor Jm... :-\I'm starting hating Robert Smith

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:38 am

Superfuzz wrote:
poor Jm... :-\I'm starting hating Robert Smith

Modified between 1982 and 1983 under strong LSD abuse...

The tiny holes and threads on the peghead were supposed to hang (a) dead fish, hence the name chosen for this guitar... I don't know if it has ever been used in this purpose, but that is what Smith reported officially.

serial · Post by **serial** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:43 am

Ahahah wrote:

You guys are just pissed because he invented the Buzz Stop.

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:46 am

serial wrote: You guys are just pissed because he invented the Buzz Stop. ;)

Definitely not jealous, but rather impressed... He did that on all his Jazzmasters from 1979 onwards...
That's part of his signature sound : string strokes behind the bridge are quite common in his playing style ("Other Voices", "Carnage Visors") but are simply inimitable. A regular buzz stop isn't enough.

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:55 am

Just out of curiosity - does anyone know how many Jazzmasters Smith actually had/used?
I always believed he had only 2 examples, but I'm not sure about this...

Soiouz · Post by **Soiouz** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:00 am

Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).

Fall reverb · Post by **Fall reverb** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:07 am

Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).

That's because it is indeed a Jazzmaster, Soiouz...

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:12 am

Fall reverb wrote: Just out of curiosity - does anyone know how many Jazzmasters Smith actually had/used?
I always believed he had only 2 examples, but I'm not sure about this...

He is known to have owned 2 Jazzmasters.
Their color changed a lot : one of them was natural by 1980, then became Olympic white (same year). From 1982 onwards, Smith hanged around with black only ones...

Soiouz · Post by **Soiouz** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:12 am

Fall reverb wrote:
Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).
That's because it is indeed a Jazzmaster, Soiouz...

Hope you don't really think I'm that ignorant? :(

I forgot the word "early".

Here: It even looks like a really EARLY JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).

That's why I mentionned the Pat.Pend. trem.

Ahahah · Post by **Ahahah** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:14 am

Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).

As far as I remember, he stated in some interview it IS a 1962...