Incoming - 1980s E serial Jag

[dots]

I suspect I am buying it from the dude who had it painted, maybe I should quietly ask if he’s part of a cyborg resistance movement. It’s shipping from Réunion (an island east of Madagascar when I looked it up) which is … insane.

Oh wow yeah, that is a hike.

[plopswagon]

Formerly Burgundy Island.

Before there was Dallas, TX, there was a French utopianist colony here called La Réunion. My wife stared an artist in residency program named after it a few years back.

[MattK]

I was thinking wow, tiny island in the middle of nowhere, and then I remembered I live in Tasmania. And it’s half as big as Réunion.

[sunshiner]

Courtney Barnett is from Hobart, Tasmania. Did you happen see her gigging anywhere around the city before she was famous?

[MattK]

Not before she was well known, but I did see her play in a bar to an audience of about 100 just before “Sometimes I Sit and Think” came out, it was a fantastic show, the room went crazy and I’ve never seen anyone enjoy playing guitar that much. Next time I saw her was a festival headline just after “Tell Me How You Really Feel” and she was in full force. My daughters’ first full on rock show, they are big fans and she blew their minds. I think she’s brilliant.
(I nearly forgot, one time in Melbourne we saw her and Jen Cloher doing a sound check at the national gallery and I took my younger daughter aged 10 to go and watch them, there was a partition with security letting them work undisturbed so we were a ways away. Then someone came to the door and asked if we were there to watch them, at which point they invited us in and both Courtney and Jen talked to my daughter for about 10 minutes, asking her about music and her interests. Wonderful people. At the end I was stumbling to say thanks and Jen said, did you want to take a picture? And I remembered that yes, that’s what you do, so we did. Great memory.)

[sunshiner]

These are awesome experiences. She seems to be very original, spontaneous while well spoken and funny in her lyrics, though she's as often just melancholic. I don't listen to albums as much as I should, but I spent a summer listening to Sometimes I Sit and Think over and over again. I've heard she lived in Melbourn for some time before her big break, so maybe she did her gigging there. I also liked the story of how she started her own label not knowing anything about the music industry. She thought in order to make money she needed to sell her music and as nobody wanted to sell her music she thought she'd start a label which will be a physical store that would be selling her CDs and like that Milk Records began.

[MattK]

I don't post pictures of my kids online where I can help it, but this one already is and I haven't used her name here so ...

Six years later she is adept on guitar and plays Mitski covers by ear flawlessly.

[MattK]

and yeah Courtney only lived in Hobart for around 3-4 years around the time she was starting out as an artist, she picked up a following in Melbourne and is pretty much a Melbourne artist. I mail order a bit of stuff from Milk and I'm pretty sure she sent a few of the things, the handwriting is distinctive!

[sunshiner]

I don't post pictures of my kids online where I can help it, but this one already is and I haven't used her name here so ...

Six years later she is adept on guitar and plays Mitski covers by ear flawlessly.

I'm a bit jealous that your daughter got to meet her guitar hero at such a young age. I'm glad she's so good at guitar, she's probably by far better than me.

Courtney's handwriting is quite recognisable

[Doog]

Six years later she is adept on guitar and plays Mitski covers by ear flawlessly.

I mean.. I'd say Courtney was more than adept

[MattK]

yeah her Mitski covers were a left turn but very well received, I guess I should give her more credit

[MattK]

so this Jag then

[MattK]

badly needs cleaning, and I am curious about the pickups, is that an AVRI in the neck?



I see a cloth wire


yeah I think it's AVRI (bevelled polepieces) but not 100% sure

upgraded pots, nice one

[MattK]

and this bridge pickup - some filth (and springs?)


some paint


pretty wrecked looking foam


looks a little interesting, to be honest

[MattK]

I think we call this a "welcome surprise"

[dots]

maybe they added the springs when the foam became petrified? i don't think i've seen a pickup look that crusty before! it's like they literally poured beer on it in the 90s and just kept it there for the mojo.

but wow, that that guitar is going to clean up great.

[Bacchus]

maybe they added the springs when the foam became petrified? i don't think i've seen a pickup look that crusty before! it's like they literally poured beer on it in the 90s and just kept it there for the mojo.

but wow, that that guitar is going to clean up great.

+1!

[plopswagon]

maybe they added the springs when the foam became petrified? i don't think i've seen a pickup look that crusty before! it's like they literally poured beer on it in the 90s and just kept it there for the mojo.

but wow, that that guitar is going to clean up great.

+1!

[taylornutt]

I am excited to see everything once you get it cleaned up and put back together.

So Cool.

[sunshiner]

Was tune-o-matic a stock thing on these MIJ Jags?