"Guitar Shop" May 1997: Full Interview with Larry Brooks about the Jag-Stang

Malacheo

Hi to everyone, I am a new user and a new owner of a 1997 CIJ Sonic Blue Jagstang. Soon or later I'll add it to the registry.

I recently found this magazine in my bookshelf, "Guitar Shop" magazine, May 1997 issue: it has an interview with Larry Brooks about the making of the Jag-stang side by side with Kurt Cobain. I found it interesting, by exemple because he says that the jag-stang prototype had a fender mustang wiring (instead of the stock jag-stang wiring, the one without the crossed wiring on the bridge selector).

Is it of any interest for the users of this (wonderful) forum?

Here is my scan (hoping that the link works): https://ibb.co/cSOMjd

If this interview is widely known to the forum and stuff users, erase this post without remorse.

Bye,

Alex

Welcome! And thanks for sharing that image with us!

Acidhouse

Thanks Malacheo. Great article.

Malacheo

You're welcome: I am very happy to be part of this community.

Now, I don't know if this thing I'm going to write should need its own right topic, but I start to write it here.

After reading the interview I contacted Larry Brooks, and I asked him a confirmation about the Mustang wiring on the original two Jagstangs prototypes. He very kindly answered (and sent an image of the mustang diagram too, because my Jagstang was really in bad shape when I bought it on ebay).

"I hope this helps...but as far as the Curt’s guitar..he already owned a Mustang and wanted the wiring to be just the same because he was so familiar with switching already".

I asked him if I could share this information with you guys in this forum and he gave me his authorization, and so I'm doing now.