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benwalker wrote:

DanHeron wrote:haha HERE HE IS on google street view... on his way to rehearsal i presume

lazy git. premises is only two stops away...

haha. I went on The Premises site.. they have some amazing bands practicing/recording there! Looks like a cool place. Most rehearsal places near me are run down and pretty nasty - and overpriced.

Rowland S Howard - "feed me cake"

i posted him on page 1, timbo..

more than one person can want a jaguar because of somebody...

of course, i feel a bit rude now.

but what if, say, 13 people said they wanted one because of him and each posted pictures? then you'd say, "oi, less pictures of the same guy, eh?". bet you a fiver.

light rail coyote wrote:it all started for me after seeing this video


I had no idea what it was but it lookse goofy and had lots of switches and chrome. PERFECT
It also made me really want one of those hats too.

Now I has both.

same here...After seeing that video my quest for a jaguar began...not even knowing they were called jaguars...

cobain, sonic youth, MBV

i think that pink jag looks amazing.

I almost forgot about this, this is an image that really really made me want one.

I couldn't find a pic on-line but Robert Smith...in the late 80's I picked up the cure book "Ten Imaginary Years" and it has a few great pictures of Robert with a Jag (with a middle pick-up he added).

Shaguar wrote:

Otherwise are there really that many Jag players? You'll see the odd one at a gig every once in a while, but not many artists out there use it as their main guitar.

There is a blues player from Chicago named Nick Moss that plays blues on a stock Jag, (other than the mustang bridge mod) pretty sweet if you ask me! He gets a cool blues tone from it, I asked him about the fact his jag sounding so different than my stock one I had at the time, he showed me how he got the beefy blues tone, he took the height adjustment screws out of his bridge then stacked two penny's and set the bridge on top of em. Wild huh? Never knew penny's could change a guitars tone so much.

fostewi wrote:I couldn't find a pic on-line but Robert Smith...in the late 80's I picked up the cure book "Ten Imaginary Years" and it has a few great pictures of Robert with a Jag (with a middle pick-up he added).

Thats not a Jaguar, Robert Smith played a Fender Bass VI it was a mix between a Guitar and a Bass. Mostly a baritone type of guitar. I saw them live in Dallas and he played it for most the songs. Here is a pic!

matocaster wrote:

fostewi wrote:I couldn't find a pic on-line but Robert Smith...in the late 80's I picked up the cure book "Ten Imaginary Years" and it has a few great pictures of Robert with a Jag (with a middle pick-up he added).

Thats not a Jaguar, Robert Smith played a Fender Bass VI it was a mix between a Guitar and a Bass. Mostly a baritone type of guitar. I saw them live in Dallas and he played it for most the songs. Here is a pic!

I don't think so but I could be wrong...this is very early cure and the story I remember is that he started out with some cheap $100 guitar but then his manager bought him a jaguar but Robert really like the middle pick-up on the old guitar so he had them installed on the jag.

Digging out the old book to check...I'll see if I scan scan decent pictures to upload.

EDIT : Ya, you are right about the Bass VI (ok, but it's pretty similar to a jag in a photo, at that time I couldn't even tell the difference between a Jag and a JM). Anyway, there are lots of pictures with JMs too and those are the ones he had the middle pick-up installed in so I was definitely a little confused. So to correct myself, I guess that's what got me into Fender Offsets (And actually my first Tele too....after I saw him play a black on black tele in the movie "Cure in Orange" I ended up getting a Japanese Squire, black with a white pickguard - that was as close as I could get at the time). Well I guess this post belongs more in the non-short scale section after all...my apologies.

[quote+"Wikipedia"]Smith has an extensive range of guitars with a variety of different sounds for different songs and eras of The Cure. His collection includes a Gretsch Silver Falcon 6136SL, a Gibson Chet Atkins semi-acoustic, a '60s Fender Jazzmaster, a Fender Telecaster, a '60s Fender Bass VI....[/quote]
Robert Smith's guitars on Wikipedia.
Just thought I'd help.

stewart wrote:i posted him on page 1, timbo..

Heh I know, but he also made me want to play a Jaguar.

edit: I should bloody read to the end of a thread before replying! Haha.

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Oddly enough, the guy I bought it from told me he was the booking agent for Stereolab & Broadcast.... funny old world.

fostewi wrote:

matocaster wrote:

fostewi wrote:I couldn't find a pic on-line but Robert Smith...in the late 80's I picked up the cure book "Ten Imaginary Years" and it has a few great pictures of Robert with a Jag (with a middle pick-up he added).

Thats not a Jaguar, Robert Smith played a Fender Bass VI it was a mix between a Guitar and a Bass. Mostly a baritone type of guitar. I saw them live in Dallas and he played it for most the songs. Here is a pic!

I don't think so but I could be wrong...this is very early cure and the story I remember is that he started out with some cheap $100 guitar but then his manager bought him a jaguar but Robert really like the middle pick-up on the old guitar so he had them installed on the jag.

Digging out the old book to check...I'll see if I scan scan decent pictures to upload.

EDIT : Ya, you are right about the Bass VI (ok, but it's pretty similar to a jag in a photo, at that time I couldn't even tell the difference between a Jag and a JM). Anyway, there are lots of pictures with JMs too and those are the ones he had the middle pick-up installed in so I was definitely a little confused. So to correct myself, I guess that's what got me into Fender Offsets (And actually my first Tele too....after I saw him play a black on black tele in the movie "Cure in Orange" I ended up getting a Japanese Squire, black with a white pickguard - that was as close as I could get at the time). Well I guess this post belongs more in the non-short scale section after all...my apologies.

You are kind of right actually, fostewi, but it was a Jazzmaster with an extra pickup in the middle:

benecol wrote:

fostewi wrote:

matocaster wrote: Thats not a Jaguar, Robert Smith played a Fender Bass VI it was a mix between a Guitar and a Bass. Mostly a baritone type of guitar. I saw them live in Dallas and he played it for most the songs. Here is a pic!

I don't think so but I could be wrong...this is very early cure and the story I remember is that he started out with some cheap $100 guitar but then his manager bought him a jaguar but Robert really like the middle pick-up on the old guitar so he had them installed on the jag.

Digging out the old book to check...I'll see if I scan scan decent pictures to upload.

EDIT : Ya, you are right about the Bass VI (ok, but it's pretty similar to a jag in a photo, at that time I couldn't even tell the difference between a Jag and a JM). Anyway, there are lots of pictures with JMs too and those are the ones he had the middle pick-up installed in so I was definitely a little confused. So to correct myself, I guess that's what got me into Fender Offsets (And actually my first Tele too....after I saw him play a black on black tele in the movie "Cure in Orange" I ended up getting a Japanese Squire, black with a white pickguard - that was as close as I could get at the time). Well I guess this post belongs more in the non-short scale section after all...my apologies.

You are kind of right actually, fostewi, but it was a Jazzmaster with an extra pickup in the middle:

The middle pickup is from the (Woolworths) Top twenty guitar that he used to record the Cures first songs, according to the stuff I’ve read. Quite good sounding pickups (I bought one of these guitars on eBay just to get the pickups, but have since sold the guitar to a friend). Ry Cooder also uses these in his guitars.

benwalker wrote:i occasionally see them at the rehearsal studios in hackney - they're always dressed like that, complete with hair explosion and so on.. which i'll give them credit for dedication...

The Premises?

Edit: Oops nevermind, should have kept reading the thread.

Here is a pic of Robert Smith playing one of his Bass Vi before he got his sunburst one

No-one. I do not hanker after a Jaguar.