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January 2007 \ Gearhead Garage \ Guitar of the Month \ 1965 Fender Jazzmaster

1965 Fender Jazzmaster

by Premier Guitar

A Rare 1965 Fender Jazzmaster, in Custom Color Sonic Blue with a Matching Headstock.


This is a Rare 1965 Fender Jazzmaster,in Custom Color Sonic Blue with a Matching Headstock. Custom Color Fenders have always proven to be a great investment.

Sonic Blue is one of the most sought after Fender Custom Colors and you can see why!

Photo Courtesy: Rumble Seat Music








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Mizzing Link
on 09/15/2008 		There are bunches of other acts that made excellent instrumental music in the '60s, but perhaps none more important and underappreciated than Davie Allan who first made an impression with his buzzsaw recordings that backed numerous biker films in the '60s. He was something of a secret transitional figure in the role of rock guitar — a distortion-heavy bridge from Wray to the psychedelic rock that would follow. His music carried on a rebellious tradition of instrumental rock but with a darker edge than surf rock generally had. (Long out of print, several of his titles were reissued a few years ago by Sundazed.)"As soon as you hear (him)," says Eddie Angel, guitarist in the modern surf-guitar band Los Straightjackets. "You know it's Davie Allan." Allan made some waves with a regional hit, Apache '65, before his work on Roger Corman's The Wild Angels made him the go-to guy to create music for low-budget biker films."I went for lots of low notes á la Duane Eddy, my first guitar idol," Allan says. "But I added the distortion and imagined what a motorcycle might sound like if it was a musical instrument. Davie Allan and the Arrows, who put Blue's Theme in the Top 40 in 1967, the band's only charting hit, and a song that marked a garage-rock evolution from surf to biker/hot rod.Allan describes his early stuff as being "non-fuzz," closer to the surf style at the time. As the biker-movie fad moved in, he took those sounds into louder and fuzzier places.Allan says he can hear himself in contemporary bands.
"I sometimes hear a tune or a commercial and almost wonder if it's me," he says. "My bass player from the '60s has called thinking he heard me on a commercial many times, but it wasn't me. So I guess there is some influence there."
Wray Rumble
on 08/21/2008 		Davie Allan & The Arrows ....Moving Right Along is CD of the year and you don't even know about it! Why? Because he is underground baby!Why is he underground? It's a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it! He is moppin' the stage with his Jazzmaster while others get the rub. Fender is honoring a Jazzmaster guitar. Davie is playing his honorable!LISTEN TO THE GUITAR MAN!
FUZZRITE FENDER FANS
on 08/20/2008 		DAVIE ALLAN FANS SALUTE FENDER FOR THE JAZZMASTER!
BUGSY CARLOS
on 08/19/2008 		DAVIE ALLAN FENDER JAZZMASTER LIMITED EDITION IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN BLACK RELIC.
Barbara & The Visitors
on 08/19/2008 		MOVING RIGHT ALONG the new 2008 CD by DAVIE ALLAN & The ARROWS Spinout Records! HEAR A JAZZMASTER LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
Mikey Kurbie
on 08/19/2008 		Davie Allan's music from his Fender Jazzmaster is like stopping at a truck stop and it looks like a normal hot dog until you bite into it. Then there's a rumbling down inside that causes a gusher to expload forth and with sudden vicious velocity!Chunks and splatters of debris come flying out and no amount of air freshener can clear the atmosphere of the loudness that has transpired.This may be a crude example but it's not your daddy's surf music Jazzmaster. It's from the dark alley and painted black as girls walk by in their summer clothes. Fender is afraid to put that thing out!
Pope J.P. III
on 08/18/2008 		Davie Allan Jazzmaster! Yeah!
JAZZY VANHOUTEN
on 08/18/2008 		Jazzmaster Allan....yes!
JAZZMASTER PLAYER EXCLUSIVELY
on 08/14/2008 		Looks like Davie Allan fans are making their point. I agree! Bout time!
Jeff Bigsby
on 08/13/2008 		DAVIE ALLAN IS SOME GUY FROM CALIFORNIA WHO IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING THE BUZZSAW GUITAR. IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE A FUZZ DISTORTED JAZZMASTER BUT HE PLAYS IT LIKE HENRI MANCINI MEETS LINK WRAY.



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