Northwest Vintage Guitars is proud to present a killer Yamaha Billy Sheehan Attitude Special in rare Thunder Blue. Billy Sheehan is an iconic bass player that came from the hair metal virtuoso world and has always managed to stay relevant. Over 5 decades of performing has garnered a huge fan base. From Talas to Niacin, from David Lee Roth to his work with Tony MacAlpine, Portnoy, Morse, and many others, Sheehan is a god among metal Bass players.
The Attitude Special features a solid Alder body mated to a maple neck with large band-aid fret markers in red on the uber rare thunder blue version. And this one has so little fret wear, it's in Very Good++ condition. Great playability and so much tone. These low ohm original YBW-IC1 and YBS-FSPCX1 Yamaha pickups are clear and clean with excellent mid punch and a rumbly low end. Control layout V1 - neck volume, T1 tone, V2-bridge volume. The tuners are very smooth and easy to turn.
The nut measures 1.57", neck depth is .80"-.93" at the 1st and 12th frets respectively. It's a very comfy C profile that you'll love. 34" scale, 9.5" radius, 8.8 lbs. Freshly strung and accurately intonated with D'Adarrio NYXL 45-105 strings and nice low action at 1.8mm-1.5mm. The frets have been leveled, crowned, and polished and it plays great. The neck is straight, the truss rod turns in both directions, and the relief is currently set for optimum playability. There are very few scratches and dings as pictured. It remains in excellent playable condition with no dead spots. Comes safely packed in the gig bag in the photos.
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