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Fender puts Mark Hoppus’s fruit-covered tour bass on sale, but only for 182 hours

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Mark Hoppus has been playing a Guava Green Jaguar Bass covered in grinning cartoon fruit since blink-182’s 2023 world tour, and Fender is now building it for anyone who orders one in the next 182…

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