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Fender Mustang Club
- Thread starter FlyingPigSound
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They look to me like either Hagstrom Bisonic/Guild Starfire pickups or the Hammond/Novak Dark Star reissues of those pickups.
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....As for the Shell Pink Mustangs - AFAIK like all other Fender and Squier stuff, US & European dealers are not allowed to sell to Canada, and those did not get released up here.
Same with a limited run of Pink Broncos, I think it was.
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If CME still HAS any.
But the key word holding me back would be 'bring'.
Even without the pandemic border measures and related extra costs considered, for me it would be, I'm guessing, mayhaps a dozen hours drive each way, or a flight likely setting me back more than the bass.
I live not far from Ottawa.
There is however another way.
A goods broker near our closest border crossing offers an arrangement whereby people can have US-based goods shipped to their depot in the US city nearest them, and the company, for a fee of course, will do the paperwork, pay the duty and taxes on our behalf, bring the goods across the border, and the customer can either pick the goods up at their Canadian depot, or have them brought or shipped the rest of the way.
I have not yet costed out this arrangement.
My feeling though is that it might be easier and less expensive to watch for a used one on eBay or Reverb.
That all said, IIRC, I think that maybe 15 years ago I did once have CME ship a bass directly to me, bought thru an eBay ad.
But it was a Conklin, not a Fender, so the border logistics were routine.
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Thanks, Those are beautiful looking basses, I love the colours
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Indeed I did !
Cannot say that I've ever had that experience with a song, though there have been some which WE in the band wished would stop getting requested.
Buck Owens once recorded a song about not playing a certain song.
It was called 'Please Don't Play A-Eleven'.
[A11] was the jukebox code for the song in question.
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Now I need to tell this to the fellow in our band who sings the song.
It's HIM who introduces it as one of Buck's.
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I know because I sing it in my band and also own a "Johnny Paycheck bass" ('65 Teisco Del Rey short-scale) Love the Buck though -
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It's a relatively easy way to have most any pg "look" using any mostly flat underlay.
My '68 Coral (Dano) used a 3D drum-skin textured plastic under clear.
Sorry for the non-Mustang tangent...
~I know because I sing it in my band and also own a "Johnny Paycheck bass" ('65 Teisco Del Rey short-scale) Love the Buck though -
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Hmmmm.... the body reminds me of a Jaguar bass.
More on this beast here :
Identify This Bass, Please
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The Fender Jazzmaster (summer '58) and Jaguar (spring '62) shared the same body style, and that body style was the most copied guitar shape in the '60s, most especially by the Japanese makers who were flooding the market with guitars/basses for the growing guitar boom. It's understandable as it is ergonomic and classy. Leo and Freddie Tavares developed the Jazzmaster as a top-of-the-line model to replace the Stratocaster and was targeted at jazz players. Well, we know how that went - the Strat stayed the flagship guitar and jazzers really didn't gravitate to them. They gained a higher profile in the late '80s/'90s played by many alternative rock/grunge and jazz players because Strats were becoming too expensive for starting-out players and Jazzmasters/Jaguars could be bought used for an affordable price. Jaguars were the most expensive Fender guitar when introduced, and became a favorite for surf bands being more bright sounding than the darker sounding Jazzmaster.
The song that made me check out the mustang bass
Someday this singer might like to be able to prove she did sing with a band...?? 
(A little humility is nice to see in an artist, -but total anonymity?)
(A little humility is nice to see in an artist, -but total anonymity?)
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My sweet honey bee 77 mustang arrived couple of days a go and sure sounds and feels sweet. Me and miss monroe approve and gave her new LaBella MUS flats for homecoming present 
Nice, real nice....My sweet honey bee 77 mustang arrived couple of days a go and sure sounds and feels sweet. Me and miss monroe approve and gave her new LaBella MUS flats for homecoming present
I also put LaBella MUS flats on my CV60 Squier Mustang. Didn't like them at first, so I tried others that I also didn't much like, so then put the MUS ones back on and now after 6 months of use they're broken in and sound terrific!!
Well, IMHO, flats are the best after being broken in, unless you like more modern stuff. I have LB flats on my Jag, Mustang PJ, Player P and Rogue. I wouldn't have anything else because I am real old school...
Totally agree... Rounds are just fret or board grinders and way too twangy IMO.
Flats are the real
!! -Also I like my fingertips and see no good reason to abuse them!
Someday this singer might like to be able to prove she did sing with a band...??
(A little humility is nice to see in an artist, -but total anonymity?)
What's the problem?
Here's the full performance on KEXP. There are many more. Check them out. Rose Windows is pretty amazing!
It's not a problem with or for me. I'm just surprised that a singer would perform in a video with her hair covering her face so much that you just about never see it? -She might as well be wearing a veil...
I doubt limiting one's exposure in a performance, no matter how currently 'cool' that might be, is a good career move.
But, like I say, it's not my problem. I'm just surprised by the video and commenting on it. Nor is it your problem either I'm guessing, unless you're working for her or the band?
{And 'amazing' is really a subjective matter of opinion.......}
I doubt limiting one's exposure in a performance, no matter how currently 'cool' that might be, is a good career move.
But, like I say, it's not my problem. I'm just surprised by the video and commenting on it. Nor is it your problem either I'm guessing, unless you're working for her or the band?
{And 'amazing' is really a subjective matter of opinion.......}
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