Buy O’Hagan Nightwatch Special Bass Blueburst USA 1980’s Online

Buy O’Hagan Nightwatch Special Bass Blueburst USA 1980’s Online. In 1942, in one of Minneapolis’ western suburbs, Jerry O’Hagan was born. He majored in music at school, and from 1971 to 1972, he supported himself by performing and teaching music in music stores.
Due to his previous work, he was hired in 1971/1972 to represent Chicago-based musical instrument wholesaler Targ and Dinner, which was known for selling Guild guitars.

Cover of the Targ & Dinner catalog from 1965. (Source: )

Later, he worked for Meloway, namely as the distributor for the Yamaki brand of Japanese acoustic guitars.

From January 1974, a price list brochure for Yamaki guitars sold by Meloway was published.
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Because of his position at Meloway and his admiration for Yamaki guitars’ high quality, he made the decision to join the adventure of Japanese guitars.
And in 1975, Jerry O’Hagan founded his own import business and started selling Japanese acoustic guitars under the Grande name. But in 1978, he ceased making these imports after three years.
Following the development of the Shark model, he began producing and distributing his own guitars and basses in 1978/1979.
Birth of O’Hagan Guitars!
The Shark is a Gibson model that is similar to the Explorer but has a significantly thinner body, making it more convenient to play, particularly while sitting.

Jerry O’Hagan with his Shark type guitar.

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Before starting his own guitar business in 1981, Roger Benedict is known for producing these guitars.

But one of the best tales about the O’Hagan brand happened at Jeff Hill’s business, the Knut Koupée Music Store in Minneapolis.

The encounter between Jeff Hill, Prince, Dave Rusan, a luthier hired by Knut Koupée, and an O’Hagan Shark then Nightwatch guitar is, in fact, where the narrative starts.

These guitars have a special place in the history of 80s and even 90s music since they served as the prototype for Prince’s Cloud Guitar, whose initial iteration was featured in the 1984 film Purple Rain. Buy O’Hagan Nightwatch Special Bass Blueburst USA 1980’s Online.

In a Fret Board Journal story by John Woodland and Gerald Ronning from May 2020 about the sale of Prince’s original Cloud Guitar, Dave Rusan said the following:

“New sides were grafted on after the sides of the Shark’s maple neck-through body construction were removed. While the original bridge pickup rout already had space for the EMG Prince used, the neck pickup humbucker cavity rout was covered with wood in order to be subsequently routed from the back side of the instrument for the smaller, EMG neck pickup. A little portion of the headstock’s wingtip was grafted onto the headstock from a new piece of wood, and the old tuner holes were plugged. Only the first two were constructed using O’Hagan necks, according to Rusan. “After that, I created them all from scratch.” ”

Midway through 1984, Dave Rusan stood in front of the first Cloud Guitar while carrying the unfinished second Cloud Guitar. Keep in mind that the mechanical holes that were drilled during the knockout of the neck pickup have also been sealed in. Buy O’Hagan Nightwatch Special Bass Blueburst USA 1980’s Online.It was originally an O’Hagan Nightwatch guitar that he was holding in his hands.

In other words, an O’Hagan Shark and subsequently an O’Hagan Nightwatch were used to create Prince’s first two Cloud Guitars.
This shows both the appreciation for O’hagan guitars’ excellence and the motivation they were able to inspire in creative luthiers like Dave Rusan. In this instance, a bass guitar is in question rather than a guitar!
This 1980 Nightwatch model was undoubtedly created by Roger Benedict before he left O’Hagan in 1981 to start his own business because of the attention and quality with which it was created.

O’Hagan is a unique brand in the guitar industry since just 4 years—from 1979 to 1983—were dedicated to the production of guitars and basses under the name. These are all very high-quality instruments that were all built in the United States.
This O’Hagan Nightwatch bass is also in superb shape, as the pictures demonstrate!
technical qualities:

• Body: Mahogany
• Neck: Neck through certainly 3 pieces: Maple / Mahogany / Maple
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Nut Width: 42mm
• Radius : 9,5″
• Frets: 21 frets
• Diapason : Long Scale 34″ (864mm)
• Profile : Slim C
• Hardware: Gold
• Pickups: Precision Type + Double Bridge Pickup
• Controls: 2x Volume / Tone / Switch: Pickup selection / Switch: Phase / Out of phase
• Country of manufacture: United States
• Year: 1980’s
• Finition : Blueburst

Often compared to Alembic basses, O’Hagan basses have nothing to be ashamed of.

It is a very versatile bass, with great playing comfort and a very good sound that can adapt to blues as well as jazz, rock or pop!

In short, here is a superb bass!

In its original case.