Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

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Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by will » Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:38 am

Don't know if there are any other Jonathan Richman fans out there, but I happened upon a video of him playing an oddly-colored pre-CBS Jazzmaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mH_bcpFuV8

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Re: Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by Tree's » Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:34 am

Looks just like Maui blue, but the story goes , in his pre- Modern Lovers days he had an affinity for Howard Johnsons restaurants.
He painted the guitar to match the restaurant's blue and orange color scheme, and decorated it with Howard Johnson's stickers.

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Re: Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:15 am

Yeah, I'm a big fan of JR, especially with that Modern Lovers line-up. Looking at that picture I thought it might be his Jaguar with swapped pickups, due to what looked like chrome at the edges of the scratchplate, but it actually looks like he's added some tinfoil along with the paint job.

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Post by JMFan » Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:00 am

I can't tell who the drummer is but wasn't their drummer or one of their drummers David Robinson who went on to me The Cars drummer?

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Re: Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by timtam » Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:43 am

I remember a road trip from my youth where I had the looooong live version of Ice Cream Man on high rotation. It's kind of a nonsense song (like a lot of his repertoire), but my friends grew to love its simple charm as I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6j78mHpRc
"I just knew I wanted to make a sound that was the complete opposite of a Les Paul, and that’s pretty much a Jaguar." Rowland S. Howard.

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Re: Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:29 am

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:15 am
it actually looks like he's added some tinfoil along with the paint job.

Funny this thread has resurfaced as I just came on to post this version of Affection on the long Offset Videos thread. The opening shot shows how wrong I was - those are little silver star decals (sic) he's attached.

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Re: Jonathan Richman - Jazzmaster

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:31 am

JMFan wrote:
Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:00 am
I can't tell who the drummer is but wasn't their drummer or one of their drummers David Robinson who went on to me The Cars drummer?
Yes, he was in the early '70s Modern Lovers line-up along with Jerry Harrison. The drummer in the video is Dee Sharpe.

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