Boss FRV-1 and Elka

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Scifi

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I was wondering how the lead guitarist for the Trashwomen (Elka Zolot) got that surf sound at the Burger Boogaloo. That's some of the best surf music I've heard. She's using a Fender Jaguar in the video with some Fender amps. I found out while searching the net that she also used a Boss Fender Reverb FRV-1 after finding her Instagram post.

The Trashwomen Live full set Burger Boogaloo 2016 with John Waters and Traci Lords

kitten_kaboodle_FYI, I'm actually VERY impressed with the #bossfrv1 #FenderReverb Tank stomp box! Really sounds just like my old reverb tank! A little more bright and twangy, but really good! I'll be using this tomorrow at #Burgerboogaloo follow @thetrashwomen for more info on the show tomorrow!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BHEM-0WD4n5/?taken-by=kitten_kaboodle_&hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/kitten_kaboodle_/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHGxRohBTMq/


Boss FRV-1 Fender Reverb
 
The thing about digital reverb is it's not affected by vibration the way a real tank is, so you can push it a little more.
 
The Boss Fender Reverb FRV-1 uses COSM digital modeling. It might be designed to sound like Fender amps, too.
 
I own A FRV-1 Pretty good reverb pedal I like the 3 controls like a old Fender reverb tank no complaints ,also check out the Electro Harmonix -Holy Grail & TC Electronics Hall Of Fame.
None of them suck so it is really just a matter of personal taste.
PQ
 
Yep. I'm a big plate reverb fan and could not be happier with my Catalinbread Talisman. A lot less awkward than carting the real thing around.:banana:
 
The guitar has a custom color which they're discussing here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/mVqoTcDy8P/
https://www.instagram.com/p/awIr4-jy0x/
Is it possible that it has an ash body? From what I've been reading, only the 1960's blond Jaguar has an ash body. The other ones have alder bodies.

Here's something interesting, fender jaguar 1964 blonde with red overspray – ash body detail.
http://blog.guitarcircle.de/2010/12...lond/jaguar64red-overspray-body-back-detail2/

http://blog.guitarcircle.de/2010/12/13/fender-jaguar-1964-red-over-blond/

https://translate.google.com/transl...fender-jaguar-1964-red-over-blond/&edit-text=
 
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I'm not an expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it's highly unlikely that green Jag's finish is original.

1. In that era Fender did not use tortoiseshell pickguards on any custom color but Olympic White, and the guard looks old enough to be original.

2. The green color of the finish is not a good match with any greens available at the time and...

3. ...it's clearly not a blue guitar with clear coat that's yellowed over time. If it was the areas under the pickguard and control plates would be more blue.

If someone is going to refinish a vintage Fender guitar they will almost always pick a custom color, or something close. Jags and Jazzmasters in particular tended to get the more flamboyant colors and matching headstocks. I don't have hard evidence for this, but as a longtime Jazzmaster fan I feel like the refin thing really peaked in the mid 90's when they had become popular guitars but still undervalued compared to Strats and Teles (also before the "relic" phenomenon took off). So, people would buy vintage sunburst Jags and JMs that had had a hard life and refinish them in cool custom-esque colors. In retrospect this was a bad idea of course, but the market for collector grade Jags and JMs (especially original custom colors) has gone through the roof and it's pulling everything else up with it.
 
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Is it possible that Elka's guitar is a reissue "1963" Jaguar? She said she bought it in 1990.

scroll down to Reissue Jaguars here:
https://reverb.com/news/the-story-of-the-fender-jaguar

http://www.fendercustomshop.com/ser...uar-rosewood-fingerboard-aged-shoreline-gold/
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I think it's an original guitar, not a reissue. I can't recall when the Japanese-built reissues were introduced, but I think it was post-1990. I don't remember them being available in the US market until 1993 or so.

Also, the US market Japanese reissues from that period have a very distinctive red tortoiseshell pickguard. This one is brown.
 
She must be tiny because that Jag (not a particularly large guitar) looks almost like a baritone on her!
 
The baritone guitar first appeared in classical music. The Danelectro Company was the first to introduce an electric baritone guitar in the late 1950s, and the instrument began to appear in surf music and background music for many movie soundtracks, especially spaghetti westerns. More recently, the baritone guitar has appeared in rock, metal and improvised music. With appropriate strings, some baritone guitars can play in the bass guitar range.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baritone_guitar

geewhizoflipout! I'll have to check that out.
 
Another girl surf group. The guitar looks like a Wurlitzer Wildcat.

The Neptunas - Pipeline

1966 Wurlitzer Cougar 12 Lollipop Red
 
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