Check out the very detailed Fender jag-stang video review brought to you by David Taub at nextlevelguitar.com. David goes over all the details of the jag-stang, the history behind it, and plays a bit so you can hear what it sounds like.
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As reported on this Fender News post, the David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster is being released September 22, 2008.
It will be a Custom Shop production available in NOS (new old stock) and Relic styles.
David Gilmour
Gilmour Signature Stratocaster
This post is inspired by a forum post where Fender Jaguar owners are showing off their Jags.
Whether you have a new Mexican Custom Player Jaguar, Japanese Reissue Jag, American Classic, original vintage jaguar, or any other iteration, we would like to see it!
Just upload your photo to flickr or whatever your favorite image host is. And then go to the following forum topic and post your link to your jaguar image. [forum topic URL] (you may have to create a forum account if you have never used our forums before)
Below is just a small selection of some of the Fender Jaguar photos and photo links posted up by their owners.
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danny's jag
fran's jag
jma689's jag
junebug's jag
libtoem's jag
libtoem's jag
mad-mike's jag
pentastar's jag
pentastar's jag
perdie's jag
purplehaze19x's jags and jazzy
richie's jag
rumorsofsurf's jag
salukipilot4590's jag
sickboy's jag
snottysnot's jags
Awesome looking jaguars guys!
Summer NAMM 2008 has just wrapped up in Nashville, Tennessee and here are some of our favorite from the show. There were no real scoops from the show as a lot of the news trickled out leading up to the show.
Fender announcements
Gibson announcements
If you are a Jaguar or Jazzmaster fan this is great news for you. Affordable Mexican models probably right down at your local guitar shops soon. You no longer have any excuses as to why you can’t find a Mustang, Jaguar, or Jazzmaster any more. But don’t even ask about jag-stangs… lol
The Billy Corgan Fender Stratocaster that we started talking about back in January is now on Fender.com as part of their Artist Series. [url] We’re assuming this guitar will get the grand unveiling at the upcoming Summer NAMM that is coming up June 20-22 in Nashville.
Not a whole lot of surprises up to this point. The most interesting specs are as follows:
The pickup switching has some non-standard settings that benefit from the single-spaced Dimarzio humbuckers.
Update: Interstate music is showing a list price of 1999.99 for this new strat. Which would mean a retail price around 1449.99. What are your opinions on this price point?
Update 2: Sam Ash is showing a list price of 1599.99 with a retail of 1199.99.
Fender has introduced new Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars in the Classic Player line. The Classic Player Jaguar and Jazzmaster are Mexican made with some very nice updates and improvements.
Notable updates/improvements are:
These new Classic Player models should nicely fill the gap left when the Japan made models became no longer available. Just the bridge and fretboard radius improvements alone will make this guitar look very attractive compared to the much higher priced American Vintage Jaguars and Jazzmasters.
The dual humbucker sunburst jaguar will also undoubtedly be a favorite of the Cobain fans. Who will no longer need to go through the hassles and expense of getting one of the “Kurtified” Fender Japan Jaguars.
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We plan to have a hands on review posted in the future.
It’s been well known that there were 2 original prototype jag-stangs made by Fender at the time Kurt Cobain died. There was a sonic blue prototype that was played by Kurt on a few European tour dates. (see video in previous post) It was given to Peter Buck of REM after Cobain died. You can see Buck playing the lefty jag-stang flipped righty in the REM video “what´s the frequency kenneth”. Does anyone know where the blue jag-stang is today?
The fiesta red prototype never made it to Kurt. Fender was preparing to ship the guitar to Kurt when they got news of his death. It originally ended up in the Fender Museum. Forum member ‘prospect’ posted some of his great photos and information from the Fender museum which is shared below. [forum link]
These photos are from Fender’s Museum in California from a few years back. It is my understanding that this is now currently on display either in Seattle or Cleveland.
On Kurt’s drawing the surrounding information you see is for when it was scanned for “Journals”. The “blacked out” area is contact information for Kurt and his guitar tech which was to not be printed in “Journals”.
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If you have any more info on the current locations of the fiesta red or sonic blue prototype jag-stangs let us know.
[Edit: Hope everyone had a fun April Fools Day and didn't believe anything posted today, April 1.]
It’s a Jaguar Bass. It’s a Mustang Bass. No. It’s a Jag-Stang Bass!
Similar to how the Jag-Stang was created it looks like Fender has taken features from both the Fender Jaguar Bass and the Fender Mustang Bass and created the Jag-Stang Bass. There are not many details available yet but we did get a hold of a couple images. Fender is expected to announce the Jag-Stang Bass at the Summer NAMM show.
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