This a totally laughable comment. Even Jack didn’t like his sound from that period. We used to call it his “tuba tone”. Seriously, it was about as appealing as a can of farts.
Michael Been of the Call & Barry Oakley are both from the same suburb south of Chicago where I grew up. Some of my friends had Oakley’s mother for a teacher in Jr. High - FWIW.
I can’t get any where with the link to the luthier interview. This might already be covered: The guitar was brought to PS to discuss how he wanted it to move forward. After playing it wanted to keep it exactly how you see it now. That’s how I remember it.
Interesting to see that I wasn't to only one to manage to get a screen grab of the color checker being used. And, no, it's not Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly. More likely a random model shot with the skin color that the company deemed most appropriate FWIW.
I had one exactly like yours ACCEPT I think it was assembled from parts as it didn’t exactly follow the spec from Fender. All-in-all it was a good guitar and it looked nice. I just couldn’t bond with it. Glad you like yours.
I always thought the Revstar line was pretty cool but, somehow, I just never bought one. Now, with the new line up, I'm running out of excuses:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yamaha+revstar+2022
I think the Standard w/P-90's would be the one to get since I already have a guitar...