A funny thing happened on the way to the jazz club. Fender aimed its high-end late-'50s guitar at the hippest jazz cats in town, but the Jazzmaster soon surprised everyone by becoming the guitar for instrumental surf and pop. Imagine even greater surprise when, in the mid-1970s, the Jazzmaster re-emerged as the subversive weapon of choice for a new breed of iconoclastic punk, post-punk and alt-indie guitar anti-heroes.