When I was 15 I saved up after a ton of gigs and went to buy a strat. My dad randomly handed me this Jaguar and I absolutely fell in love with it. I’m 18 now and I’m still playing the hell out it. Didn’t even know it was the Kurt cobain Jaguar until they gave me the case and I saw all the case candy. Never once have I regretted buying it.
Dude that's exactly how I started playing guitar. Nirvanas music was so fun and catchy, and I felt like I could play it. There's a RUclips video of Nirvana practicing in a basement in 87 , and when I seen that I realized it was okay to suck and I didn't have to be a savant to learn and enjoy playing guitar!
You know, a whole lot of the taking heads in *guitar land* on RUclips would prefer you to not like Kurt Cobain... They claim he wasn't good, it was too simple, it wasn't perfect, and so on. Ironically, that's a sign that you are so good at making music that it's natural and not even little mistakes can make people not like it. They can't cut it... Their frustration is projected onto a guy who wasn't a technical guitarist that sells more music and gear.
Long story short nirvana played a show at my local college, swarthmore college just before they went into the studio to record never mind. They even played early versions of songs on the album. To find out kurt cobain and co played a show less then 500 feet from my front door was a mind blown moment for me. The audio is on RUclips and it’s crazy
I remember an old guitar world interview with Kurt. He described how the bridge on the Jaguar was a literal nightmare to adjust. On another note, The bass player in my first band had an original 60's Jaguar, identical to Kurt's. It took me all of 2 minutes to break the innards of the tremolo. I was the most hated kid on Long Island after that lol..
@@gabewilliams7462 I remember the interview he was talking about because I happen to own that magazine. He was actually talking about the action on the Mustang bridge, which would apply to the Jag bridge also I suppose. He said "You have to loosen all of the strings, completely remove the bridge from the guitar, and turn these tiny little screws with your fingers, and hope you got it right. Whoever invented that guitar was a dork." Then the interview reminded him that it was Leo Fender. Kurt says, "Great, I guess I'm calling Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement." Lol. Little did he know, he wasn't far from being the next dead guy... and he'd get a bunch of signature guitars post-humously. But um, yeah, I kinda have to assume no one ever told Kurt what an allen wrench was, haha.
I always loved Kurt's Jag, that guitar along with his Mustang just fit Nirvana so well and some of the modifications he made (the two humbuckers, bridge, pickup selector switch knobs, etc.) definitely helped give Kurt his signature grungy sound
The funny thing is that his Jaguar was that way when he got it, one of the previous owners modified it, that's why people have been trying to figure out where it came from for years. The Mustangs were modified by him and his tech though.
@@TheKurtTribute I don't think that has been absolutely 100% confirmed, but seeing as Kurt's jag had many unique mods that it shares with Martin's, it's unlikely that it's a coincidence. I'm pretty sure Martin died a few years after any video footage, but it's still a pretty safe bet they're the same guitar.
@@roadkillmoth5610 it's an empty slot where there used to be a toggle switch like on a normal jaguar. The normal jaguar has 3 toggle switches to change pickup, but that's just an empty slot where one used to be.
@@jedhatcher252 it's nothing to be worried about even remotely, basically when on Kurt's actual original Jaguar the little switches where taken off and the toggle put on, for some reason there was a switch space left there. So to keep it exactly like the original they've left it there, there's no hole, just a dipped black space about 2mm deep. I gig with this guitar regularly and for me personally nothing has compared to how good this thing is
I love the look of binding on Fender rosewood fretboard. When they released the Eric Johnson model with the bound fretboards, they produced the perfectly spec'd Strat for me: LITERALLY. I have an 08 EJ with maple, that I sold to buy the Rosewood (I bought back the maple one last year, after over a decade I realized it was "The One*). Rosewood 60's neck, but with a 57 contour body; perfect.
The same to me! But my dream guitar was the Mustang! So I bought a japanese Fender Mustang in 1996! A dream comes true! Than I modded the guitar, swaped out the single coil bridge pickup and installed a Dimarzio Dp103 humbucker.
Bought one of these 7 yrs ago used for $850 as a "do almost anything" guitar (before jazz/jag bodies got popular again). And it does not disappoint! Ended up moding to add coil splits and chrome covers to both pickups... I still love playing it because of it's versatility.
I totally agree. It's a super versatile guitar, and it sort of plays itself doesn't it? I love these little bizarre bouts of chance where Kurt bought this at the pawn shop and ended up unwillingly popularising a whole new model via some unknown stranger's previous mods. I have fantasies of sticking a single coil in between, but it's too much work with the controls and I'll instead add a split as you did.
Since I'm a huge Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and fender fan, I checked one of these out at guitar center the other day. It was really good. It felt good, sounded good, and was a pleasure to play. This is definitely on my must have list. Nice demo. You really showed what this thing will do.
Pining over this guitar for a good 6 months. Like you, I was molded by 90s grunge. Appreciate the joy it brought you, definitely pushing me towards me brining one home. Subbed 🤘🤘
I bought mine 3 years ago... My Sweetwater sales guy Kurt was worried I may be out of my genre for the guitar and I assured him I play more than classical. Usually, I play classical styled music which slowly morphs into hammer-ons / pull-offs with some chiming to carry it all; however, that's when stomp the overdrive and distortion with some delay as I begin to play metal. This guitar is a huge help when I'm playing classical with the incredibly short scale and mine has a very Rolling Stones vibe. Each guest has a form of soul and it wants to play what it wants out of it. I love mine! I really like the sound of your rig, just wish I could've picked up the Boogie V head and cab I need; however, it was out of stock at the time.
My friend has one (the relicced one). I always wanted the non-relic (like yours). Lovely choice of colour. Weighs a ton, rarely goes out of tune, sustain for days, and those pickups are sublime! I LOVE playing it.
Just a note for people who want to buy a signature KC guitar, tuneomatic bridges are set for a 12’ radius, the kc Jaguar uses a 9.5’ and mustangs use 7.25, this means the string height won’t match the neck, the high e and low e will be further off the fretboard than the rest.
It's really cool to hear a review without strictly playing Nirvana on it. It is far more capable of other styles, and you have proven that. Thank you, that kicked ass!!
I picked one of these up second hand in 2014 for £750. Modified it by adding a coil split switch to the blank spot next to the 3 way toggle switch, and it's remained my favourite guitar for all these years.
I have also added a coil split switch next to the 3 way toggle switch. It is an easy mod, and fully reversible if you want to restore to original spec. There are already some shrink wrapped taped off 4 conductor wires leading from the pickups that you can lengthen and use (check out the wiring diagram in the service manual on the Fender website). By using some M4 hex nut spacers, you can position the coil split switch to sit low down so that your strumming hand does not hit it while playing. By using the right resistors, and allowing some output to bleed in from the other coil, there is not too great a volume loss when engaging the (partial) coil split on either or both pickup(s).
@@craigthomson3621 Yeah it's definitely a mod I'd recommend for anyone, makes me wonder why Kurt or his guitar tech never decided to utilise the space. I know he picked up the guitar second hand, so perhaps it originally did have a switch in that location, that they then removed. I find myself using the coils in the split mode more often than I use the full humbucker. The coil split SuperDistortion has almost a Tele style twang to it, mixed with the short scale length, this guitar becomes great for chicken picking
My thoughts on this Kurt must have really liked this guitar because he beat the hell out of it but it didn't get turned into sawdust unlike many others hahahaha. i had a jagstang for many years but it felt a very unfinished project and at times very disappointing. the jaguar is the best nirvana signature they put out there. it just like fluff says just wants to rip heads off when you want it too and cleans are great too. every overdrive chorus any effect sounds awesome with it. one of my best purchases ever!!
Theres an interview where Kurt is asked about smashing guitars and he mentions this guitar and how it’s his favorite and he’ll never smash it, at least he’s “not ready to yet”
He refused to smash this one out of love, and his customized mustangs out of price..... That's why, 90% of the smashed were strats... They were cheap to replace
I got this one as my second ever guitar after spending 250 dollars on my first one and having it make my hands bleed, it was like going from a lawnmower to a Ferrari lmao it’s such a great guitar I’m in love with it
A year late, but I actually bought a Kurt signature Jaguar when they first released back in 2011. I was just a 14 year old kid on a pawnshop amp but dang did I love that guitar, still do in fact. Thankfully I did upgrade my amp a few years back 😅
Great review brother… I bought one from Sweetwater and am blown away of the power and feel of this gem I have smaller hands and I can rip on this axe with its smaller scale Thanks God bless
I bought my lefty version last year. It is beautiful. I love the look of it. I love the feel of it. I love the smell of it. Only frustrating part is the bottom string jumping off the bridge with drop D tuning.
Fender sending JagStang's to everyone to review now too...lol Would LOVE if they, you know, sent me one to "evaluate" as well! I always thought they looked so cool and for Kurt to put his name on it must have been very playable. That Jaguar is finished so nice, love it!
Owned a 97 Jag Stang for a few years. Sold it. Not a very good guitar at all. Especially for a young teen learning to play with zero knowledge of how to set up a guitar.
FYI: There are still a few of Kurt's actual "missing" guitars rumored locally to be somewhere in Thurston county. About 5 years back I think I encountered one but have since lost the trail. The one I saw was a faded red strat. Being friends with some of Kurt's fellow Hoquiam musicians and school mates I've been told there were several in his collection that are just plain unaccounted for by today's archives and historians. It is also rumored that Courtney has placed a price on them (and their possessors) which makes a lot of sense and would confirm their missing state and existence. I would love to see these mystery guitars make an appearance one day. :)
Idk how true this is but Kurt also apparently had two 65 Jag’s according to a guitar tech of his. One of them was the one he played live, and another one that also had Dimarzio’s in it and a bound neck that he changed back to stock single coils. Also if you look at the pictures of the Jag-Stang Polaroid mockup, the Jag in the picture has a right handed tremolo system and is in better shape. Edit: Found the interview, he bought the second Jag in 1992 at Airline Vintage in Dallas for $500. Crazy how he found two of the same guitars, from the same year, with the same mods.
@@peesalad6032 I still kick myself for buying a Gibson Les Paul Studio for $500 BNIB in NYC in 1992 after walking past a vintage faded Sherwood green matching headstock jag for less in the window..
@@peesalad6032 I did buy a 1965 mustang a year later for $300 Cdn.. but I totally destroyed it.. someone ended up buying the remainder of it as wall art a few years later.
I really like Jaguars, and grew up w a jag stang, but eventually “graduated” to jazmaster and strat full scale necks. Short scale feels too small now :(
Im the opposite.. I played les pauls for years and jazzmasters always felt too long (Im also 6 foot 1 but Like em lil) So ive had 5-6 jags since I couldnt get used to the jazzmaster... (CIJ, MIM, Squire, 2 X 62 AVRI and a 50th anniversary... so yeah 6)
That's what adulthood is, buying the coolest crap you wanted/had back in the day. I got depressed looking at eBay prices for some of the old t-shirts I KNOW I had in middle school. $600 for a ratty old shirt?? I just end up buying the bootlegs on Etsy 🤣 To bring it back to guitars, I'm getting a Jag-Stang that I never could back then. 12 year old me would be so proud 🥲
I prefer my Kurt Cobain jaguar over my American start. Something about the neck binding with and the quility of pick-ups. Sounds great with whatever you're playing
Okay okay... at 5:50 I'm hearing some clicking from the electronics, almost like the pickup switch making noise? Am I the only one who hears that? Other than that, it sounded really good.
I'm torn. I'm quite new to guitar playing but recently my grandmother passed away. My mother wants to buy me something around 3000 euros to remember my grandmother by, something that'll pref. last my whole lifetime. I'm way too early in my hobby to put that kind of money into a guitar but that's all I can think of. So here's the problem: I could get the Jaguar and Line6 HX Stomp and something else to go with them. I usually play with my headphones through Scarlett Solo 2i2. With this combination I could skip the whole computer and just play through the Stomp and explore different sounds Or I could put the whole 3k on a Gibson Les Paul Standard. I love both guitars and as a left handed player my options are much more limited than what they are for right handed players. I feel like I could get so much more out of the Fender package but something about the Les Paul and the sound calls me.
I bought one of these from Sweetwater when the Road Worn version first came out like 10 years ago. It was so good for chugging - thick and heavy tones. Unfortunately, they hadn't figured out the QC side as I had to exchange it twice due to the wiring shorting out. Definitely sold me on Super Distortions thought!
One of these is my number 1. Bought it off my old bandmate and threw some locking tuners on there, as well as a custom-wound pickup in the bridge from the SD custom shop.
Cool! Actually just watched a vid where they were wondering who owned the guitar before Cobain! They showed a clip of a dude from a church rock band who might possibly have been the previous owner. They couldn’t quite figure out what year it really is-almost like this guitar isnt supposed to even exist! 🤘👽
I remember when this released and they had the one with the scratches and dings and i couldnt buy it, now that i can buy it i sadly dont play anymore:(
I got one of these about a year ago from Sweetwater. I love it my favorite guitar by far. Will Newbill at Sweetwater is the best. Highly recommend him and the company.
I just got one of those Ray Butts Ful-fidelity filtertrons for the neck of my archtop build, and have a magnetron in the neck of my Gretsch, and that's the thing I really dig about both of those. They don't lose the top end.
I bought this guitar on August and I haven’t touched my strat since I got it! It’s an amazing guitar. You should review one of his signature mustangs, hopefully by the 30th anniversary of In Utero we get a reissue…
Music and bands had power and meaning for real back den. I was born in 90 At 13 having a Nirvana shirt at the mall or anywhere, would get tons of ppl (girls mostly) talking to me. But I'm shy so yeah haha, I didn't wear the shirt for clout. Now if I wear a Death shirt ppl yell CHUCK!!
This is a guitar I wish I had, not just because of it’s Kurt’s , but because it is the most unique and most playable guitar ever made.
When I was 15 I saved up after a ton of gigs and went to buy a strat. My dad randomly handed me this Jaguar and I absolutely fell in love with it. I’m 18 now and I’m still playing the hell out it. Didn’t even know it was the Kurt cobain Jaguar until they gave me the case and I saw all the case candy. Never once have I regretted buying it.
@@danielgrant9951 where do you live where you can play gigs at fifteen. Living my dream life
@@Kalonofficial I actually live in Iowa. We’ve worked really hard. We’ve been playing together since about 5th grade.
@@Kalonofficial I played gigs in Canada at 15.
I have one it’s amazing
Dude that's exactly how I started playing guitar. Nirvanas music was so fun and catchy, and I felt like I could play it. There's a RUclips video of Nirvana practicing in a basement in 87 , and when I seen that I realized it was okay to suck and I didn't have to be a savant to learn and enjoy playing guitar!
You know, a whole lot of the taking heads in *guitar land* on RUclips would prefer you to not like Kurt Cobain... They claim he wasn't good, it was too simple, it wasn't perfect, and so on. Ironically, that's a sign that you are so good at making music that it's natural and not even little mistakes can make people not like it.
They can't cut it... Their frustration is projected onto a guy who wasn't a technical guitarist that sells more music and gear.
Thats exactly what started me playing 2 months ago.
Long story short nirvana played a show at my local college, swarthmore college just before they went into the studio to record never mind. They even played early versions of songs on the album. To find out kurt cobain and co played a show less then 500 feet from my front door was a mind blown moment for me. The audio is on RUclips and it’s crazy
@dansce8789 please share said audio with the rest of us please 🙏
I remember an old guitar world interview with Kurt. He described how the bridge on the Jaguar was a literal nightmare to adjust. On another note, The bass player in my first band had an original 60's Jaguar, identical to Kurt's. It took me all of 2 minutes to break the innards of the tremolo. I was the most hated kid on Long Island after that lol..
What part of the Island you from? I'm over in Mastic.
Jaguar bridges are super easy to work with lol. I wonder how he was trying to do it lol
@@gabewilliams7462 I remember the interview he was talking about because I happen to own that magazine. He was actually talking about the action on the Mustang bridge, which would apply to the Jag bridge also I suppose. He said "You have to loosen all of the strings, completely remove the bridge from the guitar, and turn these tiny little screws with your fingers, and hope you got it right. Whoever invented that guitar was a dork." Then the interview reminded him that it was Leo Fender. Kurt says, "Great, I guess I'm calling Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement." Lol. Little did he know, he wasn't far from being the next dead guy... and he'd get a bunch of signature guitars post-humously.
But um, yeah, I kinda have to assume no one ever told Kurt what an allen wrench was, haha.
Bro, you're still hated for that
He was talking about the mustang bridge.. I had that mag
this guitar is a perfect excuse to make another “Recreating Guitar Tone” for In Utero 😂
haha I just keep watching these video so I have an excuse to buy all this gear (ds2, sansamp, this jag). best guitar tone ever, probably
@@jozaHC why am i hearing about an empty slot on the switch? what isa that?
@@jedhatcher252 probably just a non working switch. It's there for aesthetic only
I always loved Kurt's Jag, that guitar along with his Mustang just fit Nirvana so well and some of the modifications he made (the two humbuckers, bridge, pickup selector switch knobs, etc.) definitely helped give Kurt his signature grungy sound
@the3-dkiller1 I wasn't, I'm just saying it's a great guitar
The funny thing is that his Jaguar was that way when he got it, one of the previous owners modified it, that's why people have been trying to figure out where it came from for years.
The Mustangs were modified by him and his tech though.
@@mophead1666 It was solved years ago who the previous owner was, Martin Jenner.
@@TheKurtTribute I don't think that has been absolutely 100% confirmed, but seeing as Kurt's jag had many unique mods that it shares with Martin's, it's unlikely that it's a coincidence. I'm pretty sure Martin died a few years after any video footage, but it's still a pretty safe bet they're the same guitar.
kurt had the gotoh tom bridge and gotoh tuners installed, and the jb in 1993. Those were the mods he did
I own this guitar and it's always been my number 1, its such a great playing guitar and the upgrades on it make it worth it over a standard Jaguar
What is that thing by the pickup switch?
@@roadkillmoth5610 it's an empty slot where there used to be a toggle switch like on a normal jaguar.
The normal jaguar has 3 toggle switches to change pickup, but that's just an empty slot where one used to be.
@@georgeweller3050 Thanks, I was always confused when I was looking at it
@@georgeweller3050 before i buy one.........empty slot? what do you mean
@@jedhatcher252 it's nothing to be worried about even remotely, basically when on Kurt's actual original Jaguar the little switches where taken off and the toggle put on, for some reason there was a switch space left there.
So to keep it exactly like the original they've left it there, there's no hole, just a dipped black space about 2mm deep.
I gig with this guitar regularly and for me personally nothing has compared to how good this thing is
I love the look of binding on Fender rosewood fretboard. When they released the Eric Johnson model with the bound fretboards, they produced the perfectly spec'd Strat for me: LITERALLY. I have an 08 EJ with maple, that I sold to buy the Rosewood (I bought back the maple one last year, after over a decade I realized it was "The One*). Rosewood 60's neck, but with a 57 contour body; perfect.
*turns off camera*
“Thank God. Now I can finally play some Nirvana on this thing.”
The same to me! But my dream guitar was the Mustang! So I bought a japanese Fender Mustang in 1996! A dream comes true! Than I modded the guitar, swaped out the single coil bridge pickup and installed a Dimarzio Dp103 humbucker.
Bought one of these 7 yrs ago used for $850 as a "do almost anything" guitar (before jazz/jag bodies got popular again). And it does not disappoint! Ended up moding to add coil splits and chrome covers to both pickups... I still love playing it because of it's versatility.
I would love to see that!!!
I totally agree. It's a super versatile guitar, and it sort of plays itself doesn't it? I love these little bizarre bouts of chance where Kurt bought this at the pawn shop and ended up unwillingly popularising a whole new model via some unknown stranger's previous mods. I have fantasies of sticking a single coil in between, but it's too much work with the controls and I'll instead add a split as you did.
Since I'm a huge Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and fender fan, I checked one of these out at guitar center the other day. It was really good. It felt good, sounded good, and was a pleasure to play. This is definitely on my must have list. Nice demo. You really showed what this thing will do.
Where was this guitar Center located?
@@BERLEBLE Tennessee
Pining over this guitar for a good 6 months. Like you, I was molded by 90s grunge. Appreciate the joy it brought you, definitely pushing me towards me brining one home. Subbed 🤘🤘
I bought mine 3 years ago... My Sweetwater sales guy Kurt was worried I may be out of my genre for the guitar and I assured him I play more than classical. Usually, I play classical styled music which slowly morphs into hammer-ons / pull-offs with some chiming to carry it all; however, that's when stomp the overdrive and distortion with some delay as I begin to play metal.
This guitar is a huge help when I'm playing classical with the incredibly short scale and mine has a very Rolling Stones vibe. Each guest has a form of soul and it wants to play what it wants out of it. I love mine!
I really like the sound of your rig, just wish I could've picked up the Boogie V head and cab I need; however, it was out of stock at the time.
My friend has one (the relicced one). I always wanted the non-relic (like yours). Lovely choice of colour. Weighs a ton, rarely goes out of tune, sustain for days, and those pickups are sublime! I LOVE playing it.
Just a note for people who want to buy a signature KC guitar, tuneomatic bridges are set for a 12’ radius, the kc Jaguar uses a 9.5’ and mustangs use 7.25, this means the string height won’t match the neck, the high e and low e will be further off the fretboard than the rest.
I'm pretty sure the fender tuneomatics on these guitars are 9.5
Dang that Triple crown sounds fantastic. Great pairing with the jag. Also, you are looking healthy
I love this wood panel mesa boogie.
I’ve never in my life heard a Jaguar chug like this. Awesome vid and a compliment to an already versatile guitar capable of many tones.
It's really cool to hear a review without strictly playing Nirvana on it. It is far more capable of other styles, and you have proven that. Thank you, that kicked ass!!
I picked one of these up second hand in 2014 for £750. Modified it by adding a coil split switch to the blank spot next to the 3 way toggle switch, and it's remained my favourite guitar for all these years.
I have also added a coil split switch next to the 3 way toggle switch. It is an easy mod, and fully reversible if you want to restore to original spec. There are already some shrink wrapped taped off 4 conductor wires leading from the pickups that you can lengthen and use (check out the wiring diagram in the service manual on the Fender website). By using some M4 hex nut spacers, you can position the coil split switch to sit low down so that your strumming hand does not hit it while playing. By using the right resistors, and allowing some output to bleed in from the other coil, there is not too great a volume loss when engaging the (partial) coil split on either or both pickup(s).
@@craigthomson3621 Yeah it's definitely a mod I'd recommend for anyone, makes me wonder why Kurt or his guitar tech never decided to utilise the space. I know he picked up the guitar second hand, so perhaps it originally did have a switch in that location, that they then removed. I find myself using the coils in the split mode more often than I use the full humbucker. The coil split SuperDistortion has almost a Tele style twang to it, mixed with the short scale length, this guitar becomes great for chicken picking
Mine has all of that, with treble bleed wiring and full mastery bridge and tremolo upgrades.
My thoughts on this Kurt must have really liked this guitar because he beat the hell out of it but it didn't get turned into sawdust unlike many others hahahaha. i had a jagstang for many years but it felt a very unfinished project and at times very disappointing. the jaguar is the best nirvana signature they put out there. it just like fluff says just wants to rip heads off when you want it too and cleans are great too. every overdrive chorus any effect sounds awesome with it. one of my best purchases ever!!
Theres an interview where Kurt is asked about smashing guitars and he mentions this guitar and how it’s his favorite and he’ll never smash it, at least he’s “not ready to yet”
Id like a matching headstock racing stripe mustang like in the teen spirit video.. that would be dope.
@@drdelewded They re-issued those a few years ago
@@douglasdog1 Only Fender Japan did.
He refused to smash this one out of love, and his customized mustangs out of price..... That's why, 90% of the smashed were strats... They were cheap to replace
Ugh I love this guitar, kurt and nirvana so much 😍
I got this one as my second ever guitar after spending 250 dollars on my first one and having it make my hands bleed, it was like going from a lawnmower to a Ferrari lmao it’s such a great guitar I’m in love with it
A year late, but I actually bought a Kurt signature Jaguar when they first released back in 2011. I was just a 14 year old kid on a pawnshop amp but dang did I love that guitar, still do in fact. Thankfully I did upgrade my amp a few years back 😅
I like variety in my guitars and besides an h(s)h strat which I plan to build someday this is going to be my other humbucker fender guitar.
Bought one of this back in 2015. It’s a keeper for sure.
Great review brother…
I bought one from Sweetwater and am blown away of the power and feel of this gem
I have smaller hands and I can rip on this axe with its smaller scale
Thanks God bless
Get out of my brain! You always get the exact guitar I'm obsessing over! Enjoy it my dude!
I bought my lefty version last year. It is beautiful. I love the look of it. I love the feel of it. I love the smell of it. Only frustrating part is the bottom string jumping off the bridge with drop D tuning.
That’s absolutely awesome man! Congrats!
The Kurt Cobain Jaguar is great.I own one myself and it was my first ever Fender.I love it.
It's a beautiful guitar. I ordered one last night. Already own a Jag-Stang; can't wait for this one to be delivered.
I'm glad your review was the first for the Kurt Jag i saw.
Man, one of my most favorite looking guitars. I haven’t played one yet. I plan on getting one one day though lol.
I can't remember this guitar featuring in any future videos like you said it would lol.
"Good wood is good wood." - Fluff 2021
Fender sending JagStang's to everyone to review now too...lol Would LOVE if they, you know, sent me one to "evaluate" as well! I always thought they looked so cool and for Kurt to put his name on it must have been very playable. That Jaguar is finished so nice, love it!
Owned a 97 Jag Stang for a few years. Sold it. Not a very good guitar at all. Especially for a young teen learning to play with zero knowledge of how to set up a guitar.
FYI: There are still a few of Kurt's actual "missing" guitars rumored locally to be somewhere in Thurston county. About 5 years back I think I encountered one but have since lost the trail. The one I saw was a faded red strat. Being friends with some of Kurt's fellow Hoquiam musicians and school mates I've been told there were several in his collection that are just plain unaccounted for by today's archives and historians. It is also rumored that Courtney has placed a price on them (and their possessors) which makes a lot of sense and would confirm their missing state and existence. I would love to see these mystery guitars make an appearance one day. :)
Idk how true this is but Kurt also apparently had two 65 Jag’s according to a guitar tech of his. One of them was the one he played live, and another one that also had Dimarzio’s in it and a bound neck that he changed back to stock single coils. Also if you look at the pictures of the Jag-Stang Polaroid mockup, the Jag in the picture has a right handed tremolo system and is in better shape.
Edit: Found the interview, he bought the second Jag in 1992 at Airline Vintage in Dallas for $500. Crazy how he found two of the same guitars, from the same year, with the same mods.
@@peesalad6032 I still kick myself for buying a Gibson Les Paul Studio for $500 BNIB in NYC in 1992 after walking past a vintage faded Sherwood green matching headstock jag for less in the window..
@@peesalad6032 I did buy a 1965 mustang a year later for $300 Cdn.. but I totally destroyed it.. someone ended up buying the remainder of it as wall art a few years later.
@Peehand Shihtzu was that red faded strat a candy apple red?
@@peesalad6032 Super interesting. :)
Was that King of the Rotten by COC you snuck in there Fluff? Great review! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
It sure sounds like it.
Great great guitar with a great rocksound.
I really like Jaguars, and grew up w a jag stang, but eventually “graduated” to jazmaster and strat full scale necks. Short scale feels too small now :(
Im the opposite.. I played les pauls for years and jazzmasters always felt too long (Im also 6 foot 1 but Like em lil)
So ive had 5-6 jags since I couldnt get used to the jazzmaster... (CIJ, MIM, Squire, 2 X 62 AVRI and a 50th anniversary... so yeah 6)
@@drdelewded It did take a while to get used to full scale. Being 6' 2 w long fingers It was more of a technical decision over preference.
7:05
NOICE!
👑 🧟♂️
King of the Rotten
I have always wanted one of these.... Now I feel like I NEED it. I hope they don't discontinue it before I can afford it!
They’re still being sold everywhere
It looks, sounds and feels awesome.
Will you be reviewing the new Kurt Cobain Jagstang?
That's what this is
@@Liamsupyo no it isn't. This is the signature jaguar, not the jagstang.
That's what adulthood is, buying the coolest crap you wanted/had back in the day. I got depressed looking at eBay prices for some of the old t-shirts I KNOW I had in middle school. $600 for a ratty old shirt?? I just end up buying the bootlegs on Etsy 🤣 To bring it back to guitars, I'm getting a Jag-Stang that I never could back then. 12 year old me would be so proud 🥲
I prefer my Kurt Cobain jaguar over my American start. Something about the neck binding with and the quility of pick-ups. Sounds great with whatever you're playing
I prefered my squire jag over any strat. And I hated my squire jag
COC at the 7:07 mark😍😍😍💜🖤💜🖤!!!
Okay okay... at 5:50 I'm hearing some clicking from the electronics, almost like the pickup switch making noise? Am I the only one who hears that? Other than that, it sounded really good.
Nice COC riff at the end!
I'm torn. I'm quite new to guitar playing but recently my grandmother passed away. My mother wants to buy me something around 3000 euros to remember my grandmother by, something that'll pref. last my whole lifetime. I'm way too early in my hobby to put that kind of money into a guitar but that's all I can think of. So here's the problem:
I could get the Jaguar and Line6 HX Stomp and something else to go with them. I usually play with my headphones through Scarlett Solo 2i2. With this combination I could skip the whole computer and just play through the Stomp and explore different sounds
Or I could put the whole 3k on a Gibson Les Paul Standard. I love both guitars and as a left handed player my options are much more limited than what they are for right handed players.
I feel like I could get so much more out of the Fender package but something about the Les Paul and the sound calls me.
The DiMarzio Super Distortion and Super 2s (not in this guitar obviously) are quite possibly my favorite pups ever made. Great demo once again Ryan!
All the metal plates make this guitar looking so cool!
3:10 thats exactly why i sold it 3 weeks after buying it. That was almost 2 years ago. Im planing on buying one again this summer, wish me luck
Gotta admit that Sweetwater is pretty damn legit.
3:52 that riff is genius! reminds me of filter
Jaguars are the most beautiful guitars, and this one, which I have, with it's DiMarzio humbuckers is the perfect one.
Man, your face duting that first demo song! You were in the zone! It would be interesting to play one. I'd like to try a Johnny Marr Jag sometime too.
I watched two non-skippable ads at the start. Does that make me a Patreon? 😜
Those humbuckers sound godly
That first jam you could have slid right into ''Call of Ktulu'' with that crunch and it wouldn't have sounded out of place.
The guitar sounds amazing both clean and dirty
I have the left handed road worn version i picked up back in 2014, such a crazy cool guitar!
I bought one of these from Sweetwater when the Road Worn version first came out like 10 years ago. It was so good for chugging - thick and heavy tones. Unfortunately, they hadn't figured out the QC side as I had to exchange it twice due to the wiring shorting out. Definitely sold me on Super Distortions thought!
Nice of Sweetwater to keep the Lefty version the same price!
One of these is my number 1. Bought it off my old bandmate and threw some locking tuners on there, as well as a custom-wound pickup in the bridge from the SD custom shop.
Did the locking tuners fit straight on or did you have to drill? What mix of long and short posts did you use?
Yeah, I love that bind neck binding is bad ass
That Corrosion of Conformity riff Though 👀
That's a great sounding guitar. I'm very impressed.
that mesa head just looks like furniture. nice. ALso I like how he says "jeg-wire" instead of jaguar
Cool! Actually just watched a vid where they were wondering who owned the guitar before Cobain! They showed a clip of a dude from a church rock band who might possibly have been the previous owner. They couldn’t quite figure out what year it really is-almost like this guitar isnt supposed to even exist! 🤘👽
I remember when this released and they had the one with the scratches and dings and i couldnt buy it, now that i can buy it i sadly dont play anymore:(
Props for that COC riff
"This thing is a chug MACHINE"
*Proceeds to play completely chug-free song😡
bEAUTIFUL guitar man!!!!
Don't mean to be nerdy, but it's 9.5" radius.Jag-war or Jag-you-are, but never Jag-wire. Great guitar!
This is my dream guitar I love nirvana and kurt cobain kurt and nirvana made me start learning guitar and I want to get this in the future for sure
Nice! Im a big fan of bright non muddy neck pups! 🤘👽
I just bought one of these two weeks ago. It’s a great guitar.
Very cool demo thank you
Genius
Me toooo I used to draw Kurt's jaguar hahaha :)
Same here…Kurt inspired me to pick up an axe 🎸 in 93…
Nice little COC riff in there 🤘
I want this guitar so bad not because it was Kurt’s but because it’s a beauty
I got one of these about a year ago from Sweetwater. I love it my favorite guitar by far. Will Newbill at Sweetwater is the best. Highly recommend him and the company.
I just got one of those Ray Butts Ful-fidelity filtertrons for the neck of my archtop build, and have a magnetron in the neck of my Gretsch, and that's the thing I really dig about both of those. They don't lose the top end.
I bought this guitar on August and I haven’t touched my strat since I got it! It’s an amazing guitar. You should review one of his signature mustangs, hopefully by the 30th anniversary of In Utero we get a reissue…
I've always loved that guitar.... A must need! Lol I ended up getting a Fender Jim Root Tele first tho over it (which, no complaints here)
That’s a nice looking and nice sounding jag. I have a mij jag that I put a set if dirty hesher pickups in. It’s wonderful.
My dream guitar 😍
I am thinking of getting a copy from Amazon, but I want to take the tremolo off and put that conversation plate on it. Those just look so bad badass.
I play in a Surf band and I was considering buying one of these.
Music and bands had power and meaning for real back den.
I was born in 90
At 13 having a Nirvana shirt at the mall or anywhere, would get tons of ppl (girls mostly) talking to me.
But I'm shy so yeah haha, I didn't wear the shirt for clout.
Now if I wear a Death shirt ppl yell
CHUCK!!
Mine was always a Gibson Les Paul Custom white with gold hardware still is 20 years later now along with the Schecter Hellraiser
So it sounds like it’s a keeper!!!
I have a Jagmaster Squier & I love it. I blocked the trem as I never use one & the Duncan Designed humbuckers sound great , it chugs.
NICE COC RIFF!
Played one a while back and wish I had snagged it up!!! They really are shredsticks.
Guitar sounds good but your playing is fantastic