You must all understand that there is no hype in 1982 in the uk or America over tokai and the article is of it’s time after the Fuji contract, the JV is uk price £220 so it’s a budget guitar as the tokai is without any hype like 30 years on so why would anyone create “Paul Colbert” a story like this.
You guys can screen shot or copy the picture and sort resolution on a pc which I have yet to do.
Also is this action taken in japan? If so there would not be no translation or reference from a Japan court. Or is it held in America because there is absolutely no reference to this in the USA court. You must look at law and how it’s filed in a specific country and if that country releases the information
SRV HAD A GOLDSTAR SOUND SO THATS 1985 according to the catalogs.
30 years on and it’s a craze in 1982 it’s a budget guitar at Fuji and tokai in 1982 so the article regardless is correct and to further the time line. Fender japan April 1982, the article is July so again that gave fender a few months to act.
It’s a solid reference from a time of budget guitars not the magical guitars that we see today with a 115 at 5k uk price and the ST120 about the same.
There is no need to make up such an article at all and it’s not an article from fender or tokai it’s from a respectable music writer. Please see “Paul Colbert” melody maker, NME and so on. The guy is a bit of a legend in his own rights.
Everything in this article is chronologically correct and it’s from the beginning so it’s the right information.
To answer the arbiter question, arbiter and fender work together CBS years so again it’s pre JV. Arbiter distributed fender guitars in the uk pre JV and had a close relationship hence why it’s mentioned as the distributor
