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by Mad-Mike » Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:20 pm
My thoughts....since my wife texted me this......
Well my first thought is as much as I love the Jag-Stang body and neck, I won't be buying one. I've already got a body in the works out of reclaimed pallet wood in progress and will be building a neck for that soon- for $0.00. Even then, I'm not gigging or playing with any bands currently so I really don't need a backup anyway. At $1250, that's just too high a price for something I"ll be ripping all of the original electronics out of anyway to slap in an old pair of 1990's era EMGs. It does bug me how much they are worth now because it makes my #1 axe a target of theft at this point which means if something I do DOES happen to materialize on the local scene sooner or later, I'm probably not gigging it anymore, or at least, not as often - or it's staying strapped on my person the entire night.
Secondly, as a fan of Cobain's, I find all this high dollar capitalization on his name without any real logic behind the target audience really stupid. Cobain's whole thing was playing CHEAP Guitars - Mustangs were $50 when he played them, his Vintage Jaguar was $350, and his Japanese Mustangs were brand new $699.99 guitars. Cobain was a "punk rocker" - punk rockers used what they could get and what they could afford, not the most glorified thing possible. Punk, in my mind, has been dead for decades and just a genre for hipsters who want to appear socially conscious. Since the Jaguar release, I've always seen it a bit bass-ackward, but hey, there's a song called "In Bloom" that pretty much says it all. Kinda shows you where the average Nirvana "Fans" head is. I agree that a Squier model would be a bit more fitting.
As for me, I've mostly moved on from other people's music and am more interested these days in creating my own music, which is quite far out of the Nirvana vein most of the time.
That said, on the flip-side, I am appreciative Fender is at least giving the base-level Jag-Stang a once-over, even if it's a tad overpriced. At least if I really did want to get another one, they're out there, even if I end up paying $77 a month for it. Still though, way out of my price range for what I'd do to it. I'm not taking a hacksaw (vibrato legs), soldering iron, and new pots and pickups to a $1250 dollar guitar just to copy what I already have.