It's Friday already, hope everyone's having a good lunch before completing the later half of the working day & ushering in the weekend. Anyway, I'm still in planet Talman, managed to dig this up from my Ibanez catalogs; it's the final year of the series' production- 1996
As you can see, the Talman back then sports a truss rod cover, 2 metal knobs, a proprietary bridge design & a trio of lipstick pickups, unlike this year's TM320 in this gorgeous blue finish.
The other version featured a pair of P-90/ Jazzmaster-esque pickups. One of these was hanging on the wall of Swee Lee, beckoning me every time I pass by the store. Back then, the Plaza Singapura shifted to Takashimaya SC before closing down altogether. Those were the days.
The 1990s was a difficult period for manufacturers like Ibanez because it's the decade of anti-guitar. Grunge was taking over, everyone wants to be seen not being able to play the guitar properly. Shred was out of the question (but it wasn't dead). Ibanez had to enlist players like Tom Morello to propel the Talman model.
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