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I don't know much about MBV or Sonic Youth (didn't these guys put pickups
BEHIND the bridge?), but Mr. Cobain had humbuckers in his Jag. Davie Allan
(King Fuzz) gets massive amounts of grunge from his Jazzmaster (it sounds
like a Harley Davidson!), but he too, I think, has humbuckers in his guitar.
The Japanese Jazzmasters from the mid-80's to early 90's supposedly have
strat like pickups in them underneath the wide pickup cover. A lot of people
seem to replace them. Over at The Fender Forum, there is news that Fender
Japan is making Jaguars and Jazzmasters again, this time with much better
components and maybe even better pickups (everyone is wondering about this
since the first Japanese reissues were pretty poor). They offer lots of
color choices and even some non-standard options like a hard tail bridge and
humbuckers. They are not importing them to the US though, although some
dealers in Europe are individually scooping some up. There are also a few
people who are buying directly from Fender Japan.
Davie Allan and The Arrows:
Fender Forum:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohsyrus [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 9:10 AM
> To:
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Jaguars and Jazzmasters
>
>
> Thanx Ivan, you make some interesting observations. I wouldn't want
> to make distortion the basis of my tone, but I really like the sound
> that the Surf Coasters get on Rumble off their Surf is Dead CD.
>
> But this brings me to another question. I heard somewhere that the JM
> pups in the RI are not the original low/wide windings, but some wide
> covers over more modern single coils. Is this true? Should they be
> replaced with the Seymour Duncan version?
>
>
> --- In SurfGuitar101@y..., IVAN PONGRACIC <ipongrac@g...> wrote:
> > THEE undisputed king of extreme distortion Kevin Shields of My
> Bloody
> > Valentine only uses Jaguars and Jazzmasters, and his sound is a
> thing of
> > beauty. May not exactly be what you'd want to use for surf, but
> > nevertheless... The guitars can do massive distortion. Also
> remember
> > that both Sonic Youth and Nirvana rely/ied on Jags and JMs, and they
> > are/were no slooches when it comes to distortion. What you can't
> really
> > do as well on Jags/JMs is the soaring Hendrix/David Gilmour Strat
> leads,
> > just because they don't sustain as well, and sound different. But
> the
> > distorted tones will sound nice and ragged.
> >
> > Ivan
