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I've been listening to Yo la tengo a lot lately, and I was wondering if any of you know anything about Ira's cool candy apple red jazzmaster. It looks vintage, pre '65, he beats the crap out of that poor thing and it definitely has a story to tell.

This is one my favourite videos with that guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYF4wbyrNyY

Legend. Stock bridge too.

yeah. when i seen ylt in glasgow a few years ago, i noticed he still had the stock bridge. but he was using string gauges on par with me.

i still think my fave ylt guitar is his coronado

Love this clip. I watch it from time to time. Great performance, sweet guitar.

Ira has a great collection. He is one of the reasons I started playing Jazzmasters (and one of the reasons I have a son named Ira).

Yes, I noticed he has quite a few interesting guitars in his collection, but couldn't find much info on any of them.

As far as I can tell, he plays:

The vintage CAR Jazzmaster with matching headstock and now with non-vintage tortoise guard
Vintage d&b sunburst jaguar
Vintage stripped to the wood Strat (which he's apparently had since he was a kid: https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/ ... aint-broke)
Vintage CAR Coronado with matching headstock
Eastwood Messenger: https://eastwoodguitars.com/blogs/artists/ira-kaplan
Vintage Fender Coronado:
60s Gibson J-45
Several other acoustics
MIJ sunburst Custom Telecaster
Purple Sparkle Danelectro 12-string

I've never owned one (or really wanted to?), but seeing YLT's performance on KEXP has made me start parts shopping for a Strat build. I freaking love that band.