The bodies were from the Mustang production line, and 6-pole guitar pickups were used instead of the standard 4-pole pickups used in basses. I don’t think I’m just being a nostalgic fool they do actually rule.The Musicmaster was Fender’s budget-priced bass at the time, made from surplus parts from other Fender models. But the Venus is still feeling and playing really solidly.
I’m not sure why, but many of them don’t last long.
Our guitars tend to get quite a hard time on tour. I don’t think for the money that you could do much better as they are so solid and well-built, and with a Super Distortion in them, it really is a good workhorse. I then got a Supersonic, again really cheap off eBay, and put a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge, and though it sounds and looks great (check out the blue sparkle finish), it’s not as good as the Venus. I wasn’t intending on it becoming my main guitar I just bought it out of nostalgia for my college years, really, but it just sounded so much heavier than any of my others and was much more fun to play. With the DiMarzio in though, it is now undoubtedly my best guitar. Although they were really well-built from Fender parts, they cut corners on the pickups, which is pretty fundamental. I guess that was the only downfall of the Vista series. I got really into them again last year and bought a Squier Venus on eBay where you can still get them really cheap, for like £250 or something, and when it came I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position just because the stock pickups kind of sucked. In fact, I think it’s probably the only type of bass he has bought three of exactly the same kinda, after one of them got stolen and then one got sold, which he subsequently regretted. Gary had a Musicmaster Bass in shell pink, which is still the prettiest bass I’ve ever seen. Plus, I’m a sucker for pastel colors, always have been. They seemed more fun than the Strats or Ibanezs that everyone at our college seemed to favor.
A PINK SQUIER VISTA MUSICMASTER BASS SERIES
We were always more into the student model Fenders like Mustangs (which have become really played out these days) and Duo-Sonics than stuff like Strats and Teles, but something about the Vista series just seemed to appeal to us more I guess it might be because they aren’t “player” guitars. Personally, I think a lot of them were better built than the Japanese Fenders of the day, and that’s maybe why they were discontinued. Most people will think of Squier guitars as being budget versions of Fender designs, but this was a line all of its own they would have cool features like sparkle finishes or reverse headstocks, basically all the gimmicks of the era, and they were built by the same people manufacturing Japanese Fenders, I think, using a lot of the same parts. They came out around ’97-98 and were only in production for a year or so, but as this was the year Gary and I started college, we quickly began to favor them as they were really well-built, unique designs and, most importantly, really cheap. Jarman: These have always been our favorite type of guitars. The Smiths guitarist added sinewy guitar and a palpable sense of maturation to the Cribs’ already potent sound, and given the new LP’s blend of visceral raw-punk energy and full-bodied pop melodicism, Marr’s two-year tenure with the band left an obvious mark on it creative approach. In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita), the follow-up to 2009’s enormously successful Ignore The Ignorant, represents a physical return to the Cribs’ original band-of-Brit-brothers format-Gary Jarman on bass/vocals, his twin Ryan on guitar/vocals and younger sibling Ross on drums-after the departure of the massively influential Johnny Marr.
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