1987 Kramer Pacer American

I am not entirely sure what happened in the late 1980s, but I had been out of bands for a while and had offloaded all of my old Stratocasters at the time. (what?) I was about to start playing live again as I had been writing for a while and for whatever reason I thought this American made Kramer was the answer for live gigs, and I was right. The humbucker and two single coils was a great combination and the pickups if I recall correctly was a Seymour Duncan JB (Jeff Beck) Humbucker, and the single coils were ‘vintage’ style Fender single coils.

This pickup combination offered a lot of sound variety live and I loved this guitar for it. It also stayed in tune better than the Strats I had owned previously thanks to the Floyd Rose Tremolo. The neck felt great, nice shape and a lack of glossy lacquer on the back of the neck made it easy to play. It looked nice when i bought it new, but by the time I offloaded it, it was much worse for wear. Now if memory serves me well, I paid about AUD$2,500 for this guitar brand new, and I sold it for a rather pathetic $250! I have no idea why I sold it for such a pathetic amount as I did not need money at the time, and I totally regret it as I wrote so many songs on it and for that reason alone I wish I had kept it.