Jagstang
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| Manufacturer | Fender |
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| Period | 1994, 1995–2001, 2003–2005 |
| Body type | Solid |
| Neck joint | Bolt-on |
| Scale | 24" |
| Body | Basswood or Alder on reissues |
| Neck | Maple |
| Fretboard | Rosewood |
| Bridge | Fender Dynamic Vibrato |
| Pickup(s) |
"vintage style" single coil, "Fender Santa Ana" humbucker |
| Sonic Blue, Fiesta Red | |
"vintage style" single coil,
The Fender Jag-Stang is an electric guitar designed by Kurt Cobain, of the band Nirvana, intended as a hybrid of two Fender electric guitars: the Jaguar and the Mustang.
Cobain suggested his idea for an instrument to Fender, resulting in two left-handed prototypes built by former Custom Shop Master Builder Larry L. Brooks, only one of which was played by Cobain himself.
In an interview from January 4, 1994, Cobain talked about designing the Jag-Stang, since it had not yet been produced. He stated to Nardwuar the Human Serviette that he designed it by taking a Polaroid of the Mustang and Jaguar, cutting them in half and combining them.
It was shipped back to Fender for repairs before Cobain brought it with him on the European leg of Nirvana's In Utero tour in 1994, where the guitar was seldom played live.
Cobain sketched a basic design that was sent to Fender, which was later published as part of his Journals in 2002.
Cobain played the Jag-stang live only a few times, however in Nirvana's final full concert at Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Kurt used the legendary Jag-stang for the entire show. :“I’d say he played the Jag-Stang between two and five times on stage,” Bailey says. “There was an early show where he may have used it for a song or two, and later on he may have used it for an entire show.” Bailey says that, to his knowledge, Cobain never used the guitar to record with.
“Kurt tended to record with guitars that he liked to play live, guitars he was real comfortable with,” Bailey says, “and at that point the Jag-Stang wasn’t one of them. I believe the guitar showed up not long before the In Utero tour began, and there wasn’t a lot of recording going on then anyway.”
Even though Fender had built the Jag-Stang to Cobain’s specs, Bailey modified it as Cobain found things he wanted adjusted. “Basically everything that came in, including the Jag-Stang, I modified,” Bailey says. “Kurt’s older Jaguar was already pretty heavily modded and he liked it pretty much the way it was. But there were always changes of one kind or another to almost everything”("Legendary Guitars" by R. Moore 2012).
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