I have the Classic Player Jaguar HH and like it a lot. Confused by the Jaguar's bewildering switching system? Fender Player Jazzmaster. A three-position toggle, rather than a trio of Jaguar slide-switches, controlled the pickups. I got extremely lucky one day and a KC Jag landed in my life. Below are some of the technical differences between the Classic Player Jaguar and Jazzmaster. The guitar takes its name from the sticker stuck to the body, which reads, “Vandalism: as beautiful as a rock in a cop’s face.” The sticker came with the album Teachers In Space by Arizona punk band, The Feederz. The project had been in the works for years, with the involvement of Kurt’s guitar techs Nick Close and Earnie Bailey, Nirvana’s management and the Cobain estate. He did, but in reaction Kurt was pushed onstage in a wheelchair by journalist Everett True, stood to address the crowd and feigned a collapse. The video for Lithium shows Cobain attempting to pull its strings off. While the Jag-Stang was Kurt’s official collaboration with Fender, it’s the Jaguar that has remained the most iconic instrument. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, by TomBar3 » Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:50 am, Post https://blog.reddogmusic.co.uk/2015/07/ ... al-review/. ......and you put a claw on a mustang cover? Pricing is expected to be very competitive indeed. Still unpacking this......its got a mustang bridge, jazzmaster pickguard, musicmaster neck pickup, sig strat bridge pickup, tele selector, theres nothing jaguar left on this jaguar but the claw. There was a problem. It's a very good guitar for the money, and I have no problems recommending it if you're in the hunt for a more "modern" Jag that can rock humbuckers. by robroe » Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:01 am, Post There was a problem. “It’s pretty faithful to the real thing,” Norvell says. Thank you for signing up to Musicradar. by Squareball » Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:06 pm, Post While the Jaguar is the most recognisable guitar from this era, Kurt also had a collection of new Fenders, mainly Stratocasters and Mustangs. Alongside the humbucker version, Fender has also announced other new Classic Player Jaguars, Jaguar basses and Jazzmasters, and a new Squier Classic Vibe Series Duo-Sonic. As such, the Kurt Cobain Jaguar has been sprayed with a nitrocellulose finish. We didn’t want people thinking the guitar is broken.”. BA1 1UA. by patski » Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:26 pm, Post Cobain’s punk-rock ethics doubtless had an influence over his love of inexpensive instruments, and while the Kurt Cobain Jaguar is by no means cheap, it’s a snip compared to a genuine ’65 Jag. Fender Artist Series Kurt Cobain Jaguar. “The binding and pearloid dots are both period correct to ’65, but I think a left-handed, 24-inch-scale Jag neck was kind of an odd request back then. It's an amazing axe...but don't pay the stupid amounts that people are asking these days. Contrary to popular belief, Kurt’s seemingly endless supply of guitars consisted of just a handful, which Earnie kept going by rotating the working parts. MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. So someone had commissioned these really extensive modifications on it and then paid for a flight case for it. Available colors: User rating ★ … Cobain’s punk-rock ethics doubtless had an influence over his love of inexpensive instruments, and while the Kurt Cobain Jaguar is by no means cheap, it’s a snip compared to a genuine ’65 Jag. There’s always been this mystery: who owned that guitar? Please refresh the page and try again. Speculations about Cobain’s health and heroin addiction were rife, and many were questioning whether the frontman would even show. “When I got access to Kurt’s guitar, the switch was completely snapped off inside of it and it’s hooked to nothing, so it’s blank. It fits nicely and intonates well, and aside from whatever bridge you want the mod is cheap and easily replaceable. MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. So what we’re left with is the legacy, and I felt that it’d be really great to honour Kurt and the fans with something a little bit more authentic to what he was playing.”. Looking uncannily like the Jaguar favoured by Kurt Cobain - seen here rocking the Reading Festival stage with a stunning performance of Lithium in 1992 - the Classic Player Series Jaguar Special HH is available in three colour sunburst and none-more-sexy olympic white with tortoiseshell pickguard, as pictured here. I need this thing. When he returned to his feet, Cobain was handed his 1965 Fender Jaguar. Discussion of newer designs, copies and reissue offset-waist instruments. But 20 years on from the release of Nevermind, the band’s legacy continues to resonate. “One of the things people were thinking was that it was a non-original neck with some kind of knock-off decal. © Less than two years after Nirvana’s Reading high point, Cobain was dead. By 30 August 1992, Nirvana were headlining at Reading Festival and had arguably become the biggest band in the world. The 9.5" radius is will turn off vintage guys too. by TomBar3 » Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:27 am, Post While very similar on the surface the Jaguar and Jazzmaster have some basic differences. by SAVEStheDAY » Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:37 am, Post But, at the same time, it was kind of posthumous. Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? It wasn’t just the electronics that had been overhauled: the hardware had been replaced with a black chrome Gotoh bridge and Gotoh machineheads. Hahaha. Visit our corporate site. Bath Charting the mods and myths of the Nirvana legend's iconic guitar. © Purists and cork sniffers don't like the TOM and will argue that the trem placement is "wrong" (It's closer to the bridge to help the break angle of the strings), but it works. Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? by robroe » Sun Sep 06, 2020 4:59 am, Post BT's favourite synths of all time: "For nuance, expressive performance and playability it's probably the most elegant, lively sounding instrument I've ever played". Post Visit our corporate site. Kurt purchased the Jaguar used through the LA Recycler in 1991. It maintains many vintage features, including the much-loved/much-hated vibrato design and the quirky metal cage surrounding the neck pickup. Fender's Classic Player Series Jaguar Special HH is an indie kid's guitar nirvana. Rather than the traditional SS layout, Fender has spec’d an Alnico 3 humbucker in the bridge and Alnico 2 single coil in the neck. He was very non-precious with guitars. Talk about the Fender Jazzmaster, Jaguar, and any other offset waist guitars with us! Looking uncannily like the Jaguar favoured by Kurt Cobain - seen here rocking the Reading Festival stage with a stunning performance of Lithium in 1992 - the Classic Player Series Jaguar Special HH is available in three colour sunburst and none-more-sexy olympic white with tortoiseshell pickguard, as pictured here. According to Norvell, keeping the cost down was a big priority: “Kurt wasn’t about a £10,000 museum piece to be put in glass above one’s mantle. Kurt’s Jag was one of the main constants of the Nevermind era. Just so I'm straight there is a player and a classic player? The 15 best rock drummers of all time - as voted for by you. And during a bad show in São Paulo, Kurt pounded a cantaloupe melon into the Jag’s body, much to the horror of Earnie Bailey: “I remember looking at it and thinking, ‘God, I don’t want to clean that up.’”. Kurt may have destroyed his fair share of guitars, but the Jaguar remained in one piece, although not for a lack of trying. The jazzmaster has a 25.5″ scale neck while the jaguar has a 24″ scale neck. According to Norvell, keeping the cost down was a big priority: “Kurt wasn’t about a £10,000 museum piece to be put in glass above one’s mantle. Thank you for signing up to Musicradar. “It’s got Gotoh tuners with the diagonal screwplate on there and, as with the Rory Gallagher Stratocaster, we left the original screw holes on the Kurt Cobain guitar,” Norvell explains. with a slightly more pronounced neck angle produced by a new neck pocket cut. In most pictures of Kurt playing his Jag live, gaffer tape covers the toggle switch plate. And then the Vandalism Strat got smashed in France – it was destroyed at that point – and then the Jaguar moved into the number-one slot.”. by robroe » Sun Sep 06, 2020 5:03 am. “The upper controls were engaged and disengaged over the years,” says Norvell, “but for the tribute we’ve engaged them, because you might as well. All rights reserved. “At one point, I was trying to put together a chronology of how many guitars he owned,” says Earnie, “and the number isn’t really that much. Nirvana had also played Reading the year before. Now where did we put that flannel shirt…, Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. The toggle was mounted on the switch plate on the treble horn, and an extra volume pot had been added to the control section. It was definitely more true to that DIY punk spirit to keep it as low a price point as possible…”. Because the bridge post holes on the AOM are threaded, I put some M8 grub screws in, and extended the AmPro bridge screws significantly. Receive news and offers from our other brands? (Earnie changed the latter to a Seymour Duncan JB around In Utero.). “I’ve been doing this job since early 2005 and this guitar was one of the first things I started chasing down,” says Norvell. There’s nothing there, so we just have a piece of black insulation that covers that area.”. Post by Ratafia » Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:11 pm I picked up a Classic Player Special Jaguar in sunburst used, and I like it a lot after I changed the bridge out for an American Pro bridge. The new Classic Player Series Jaguar Special HH takes a Jaguar, and adds a more stable bridge assembly, bigger frets and a pair of Enforcer humbuckers. And why haven’t they come forward? The 15 best rock drummers of all time - as voted for by you! Replacing it is the new Player Series, also made in Mexico.This updated Jaguar is the first Player Series model we’ve reviewed. “Fender always felt that the Jag-Stang was cool, because it was Kurt’s vision. The jazzmaster has 21 medium jumbo frets – the jaguar … by SAVEStheDAY » Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:34 am, Post I think somewhere in an interview he claimed it was around 200, but in reality I think it’s closer to maybe 50… A lot of what you see from ’91 through to the end is the same five, six, seven guitars just being recycled over and over again with different parts. All rights reserved. Recent fan theories point towards Martin Jenner, guitarist for Cliff Richard and The Everly Brothers, but these have yet to be confirmed. I would say that from looking at it, it appears to be original and correct,” Norvell notes. Fender recently nixed its long-running Standard Series of Mexican-made guitars. Kurt’s guitar playing inspired millions of guitarists globally and continues to prove that spirited playing can capture imaginations just as much as technical ability. “To me that’s the greatest mystery,” he says. He really changed things and moved music into a different place.”, Fan uncovers previous owner of Kurt Cobain's Fender Jaguar, Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. They had reclaimed rock from the clutches of hair metal and elevated a conflicted Cobain to the reluctant position of spokesperson for a generation. Why have I never tried this????? Re: Any praise for Classic Player Special or Kurt Cobain Jaguar NOS ? “We were looking at photos before we got to see the guitar and in some it looked like a very clear three-tone, but in others it looked like a two-tone or tobacco burst.”, Earnie Bailey on keeping Kurt’s guitars alive.

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