Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
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Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
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
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
I think these are the pics of Robert Smith's Jazzmaster you're looking for, eggwheat?
Live in 1984 -
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
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
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
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
For details lovers...
Same picture, but with close ups of the body and peghead... wooooow...
Same picture, but with close ups of the body and peghead... wooooow...
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
This one must have been shot during the Banshees's "Hyaena tour", in Paris, 1984 (picture by Terrasson)Fall reverb wrote: Live in 1984 -
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
poor Jm... :-\I'm starting hating Robert Smith
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Modified between 1982 and 1983 under strong LSD abuse...Superfuzz wrote:
poor Jm... :-\I'm starting hating Robert Smith
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.
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
You guys are just pissed because he invented the Buzz Stop.Ahahah wrote:
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
Definitely not jealous, but rather impressed... He did that on all his Jazzmasters from 1979 onwards...serial wrote: You guys are just pissed because he invented the Buzz Stop. ;)
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.
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
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...
I always believed he had only 2 examples, but I'm not sure about this...
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
That's because it is indeed a Jazzmaster, Soiouz...Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
He is known to have owned 2 Jazzmasters.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...
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...
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Hope you don't really think I'm that ignorant? :(Fall reverb wrote:That's because it is indeed a Jazzmaster, Soiouz...Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).
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.
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Re: Roberts Smiths Fish guitar
As far as I remember, he stated in some interview it IS a 1962...Soiouz wrote: Poor guitar.... It even looks like a really JM (I think I see a "Pat. Pend." trem).