Re: What does JB mean?
Alright, let's get serious here…in reference to master cylinders…it's Just Breaks.
Actually thanks guys…I'd always said I couldn't hear a LP on Blow by Blow.
The other guitar player in one of my high school bands bought that album when it first came out. He had a Univox LP custom through a black Univox amp (all tube). He could get closer than me.
I'd played through a blue Univox amp and I thought it smoked the black one so I knew that guitars pickups were special.
I wanted a blue Univox amp but I couldn't afford one (they were $450) and Black Face Supers were going for $75 used.
I ran 3 of them in parallel. One Super couldn't touch a Blue Univox (Marshall clone)...but 3 Supers (one with 10s, one with 12s and one with a 15)...Man!
That was probably the count down to routing out the P90 holes in my LP cause...well...in a day before the likes of EVH or Vai or SD after market pickups...Blow by Blow was pretty cutting edge. Do you think the LP on the Blow by Blow cover came with HBs?
It was like the only conceivable way to get that tone was to do the route. We were clueless of a (different gauge wire) rewind but the possibility of DMZs existed because they started producing after market pickups before that album came out (SD wasn't making production line pickups yet). I bought an DMZ PAF and Dual Sound to fill the holes. I assumed they were both #42 for years and I assumed the JB was too so I waited 22 years to buy my first one...I don't even want to think abought what a 16k #42 would even sound like!
I'm writing this in appreciation on the knowledgebase that exist here.
SD made his mark in history with the Jazz/JB but look, Matsumuko should get some credit too.
Don't thing SDs not hip...have you seen his for his Japanese (for domestic use only) guitars?