My JM is now my best Tele
- BobL
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My JM is now my best Tele
Used my new (first) Jazzmaster at a gig w/ my old school country band for a festival show this weekend, and it killed it through my Imperial - confirming what I'd suspected in practice the last couple weeks - the JM makes for a really great tele. Great twang, tight low end... loved it. Couple mods to this (Thin Skin '65 AVRI) JM have really gotten it 'there' - staytrem bridge, stewmac .5 degree shim, and 500k pots.
I've been playing for almost 30 years, and in the last year I've found Gretsch and filtertrons and the Jazzmaster (I mean, I knew they existed before, but I never owned any), and they have both instantly become my favorite sounds and guitars... finally getting the sounds in my head out into the world.
Anyway... just pleased, is all.
I've been playing for almost 30 years, and in the last year I've found Gretsch and filtertrons and the Jazzmaster (I mean, I knew they existed before, but I never owned any), and they have both instantly become my favorite sounds and guitars... finally getting the sounds in my head out into the world.
Anyway... just pleased, is all.
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
Cool, man! You know I've seen a bunch of country bands playing Jazzmasters lately and they all sound great. They really can get very twangy, less ice pick than the tele (which I prefer). I've got a 65 thin skin and shimming the neck/adding a stay trem have really made it so amazing. Everyone that plays it is always blown away.
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
That moment when you discover something that you didn't even know you were looking for is just great. Playing a jaguar for the first time was a real moment for me, I felt like I was home.
Gretches are so cool and they are very distinctive sounding, and also feel different. My brother has one, I don't know, it feels in a way raw and spanky.
Enjoy your new found passions!
Gretches are so cool and they are very distinctive sounding, and also feel different. My brother has one, I don't know, it feels in a way raw and spanky.
Enjoy your new found passions!
Jaguar > Jazzmaster :)
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
I sold my last Tele when I found I could get similar (or better) tones out of my Jazzmaster, because the Jazzmaster is so much more comfortable to play.
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Love the title of this thread.
Also no longer have a tele. Gigged one for a few years. It was a great player and super reliable but always sounded too clean and perfect. My JM and Jag always do that sound better, imo and have way more complexity to the sound. Great twang! And the neck pickups on JM and Jags!
...just the perfect single coil neck sound ever.
Also no longer have a tele. Gigged one for a few years. It was a great player and super reliable but always sounded too clean and perfect. My JM and Jag always do that sound better, imo and have way more complexity to the sound. Great twang! And the neck pickups on JM and Jags!
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- BobL
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
But... I still love my tele. I have gone through a lot of guitars finding 'the ones', and my K-Line tele has always made the cut.
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I love my Tele, I could never replace it.
That said, for years I listened to "Live at Folsom Prison," and I always felt that the Tennessee Three just had the best, tightest sound imaginable. Then one day I bought the reissue on cd, and I'm looking through the booklet at the pictures and... wait, is that... is that a JAZZMASTER that Luther Perkins is playing!? You gotta be shitting me! It really opened my mind up to what those guitars were capable of, and kinda began this thing I have with being a rock guitar player using "country" guitars(although I gravitate more to the Jaguar than the Jazzmaster).
That said, for years I listened to "Live at Folsom Prison," and I always felt that the Tennessee Three just had the best, tightest sound imaginable. Then one day I bought the reissue on cd, and I'm looking through the booklet at the pictures and... wait, is that... is that a JAZZMASTER that Luther Perkins is playing!? You gotta be shitting me! It really opened my mind up to what those guitars were capable of, and kinda began this thing I have with being a rock guitar player using "country" guitars(although I gravitate more to the Jaguar than the Jazzmaster).
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
Pretty sure there's a clip out there of Luther playing a jaguar on a tv performance with Cash. I found this out after getting a jag and thinking it would be really good for country. Didn't know he also used a jazzmaster, though, that's cool.raindog13 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:44 amI love my Tele, I could never replace it.
That said, for years I listened to "Live at Folsom Prison," and I always felt that the Tennessee Three just had the best, tightest sound imaginable. Then one day I bought the reissue on cd, and I'm looking through the booklet at the pictures and... wait, is that... is that a JAZZMASTER that Luther Perkins is playing!? You gotta be shitting me! It really opened my mind up to what those guitars were capable of, and kinda began this thing I have with being a rock guitar player using "country" guitars(although I gravitate more to the Jaguar than the Jazzmaster).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9x5V4M4bsSinglebladepickup wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:05 pmPretty sure there's a clip out there of Luther playing a jaguar on a tv performance with Cash. I found this out after getting a jag and thinking it would be really good for country. Didn't know he also used a jazzmaster, though, that's cool.raindog13 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:44 amI love my Tele, I could never replace it.
That said, for years I listened to "Live at Folsom Prison," and I always felt that the Tennessee Three just had the best, tightest sound imaginable. Then one day I bought the reissue on cd, and I'm looking through the booklet at the pictures and... wait, is that... is that a JAZZMASTER that Luther Perkins is playing!? You gotta be shitting me! It really opened my mind up to what those guitars were capable of, and kinda began this thing I have with being a rock guitar player using "country" guitars(although I gravitate more to the Jaguar than the Jazzmaster).
Well hot damn! Not sure if this is the clip you are talking about, but there he is!
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
I get come pretty good country sounds from my Jag, but that's through the prism of a guy who isn't exactly steeped in country tonez and chickin pickin.Singlebladepickup wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:05 pmPretty sure there's a clip out there of Luther playing a jaguar on a tv performance with Cash. I found this out after getting a jag and thinking it would be really good for country. Didn't know he also used a jazzmaster, though, that's cool.
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Yeah, that's the one. I was too lazy to look it upraindog13 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:12 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9x5V4M4bsSinglebladepickup wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:05 pmPretty sure there's a clip out there of Luther playing a jaguar on a tv performance with Cash. I found this out after getting a jag and thinking it would be really good for country. Didn't know he also used a jazzmaster, though, that's cool.raindog13 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:44 amI love my Tele, I could never replace it.
That said, for years I listened to "Live at Folsom Prison," and I always felt that the Tennessee Three just had the best, tightest sound imaginable. Then one day I bought the reissue on cd, and I'm looking through the booklet at the pictures and... wait, is that... is that a JAZZMASTER that Luther Perkins is playing!? You gotta be shitting me! It really opened my mind up to what those guitars were capable of, and kinda began this thing I have with being a rock guitar player using "country" guitars(although I gravitate more to the Jaguar than the Jazzmaster).
Well hot damn! Not sure if this is the clip you are talking about, but there he is!
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
Yes pretty sure it's a Jag on Folsom. You can really hear the plinky short scale tone on the damped parts. I love it.
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You know, now that you mention it, I think you're absolutely right. And all that super bright twang and jangle on the solo. Luther, you sneaky, cheeky bastard!
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
You frequently see Jags and Jazzmasters on old video from the Grand ol Opry and the like. They seemed to largely fall out of favor in the music as well as the buying public after the early to mid '60s when the Tele became the overwhelming choice. It's cool to see offsets coming back in the hands of some newer country acts like Chris Stapleton. I also used to dig when Kenny Vaughan of Marty Stuarts band would break the Jag out. I think I've seen him with a Jazzmaster as well, but he likes the thumpy flatwound sound.
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Re: My JM is now my best Tele
I've always though the JM was like an ideal Strat neck pup paired with the ideal Tele bridge pup. ![Kiss :-*](./images/smilies/kiss.gif)
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