Kurts' telecaster... amp and kris' bass...

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:39 pm

.... was just browsing tele related stuff and came across this...

http://www.rockstarsguitars.com/product ... &x=0&y=824

from...
www.rockstarsguitars.com

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Supposibly from Earnie Baileys site this was Kurts new favourite near the end of his career and was undergoing a pickup swaps & mods around the time when kurt shot his head off...

also... see tab for Kris' bass and other famous guitars...

reckon these are legit ?

... I thought I would post it up... don't mock me

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paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:13 pm

Yeah, that's probably really his. It was a Japanese 62 custom re-issue, i think. I used to attempt to be a little bitch in the late 90's and go on the jag-stang forums to tell all teh kurdtzes that kurt's favourite guitar was a tele and not a mustang or jag, but they had none of it.

Anyway, from the brian haberman info:

"Fender sent this out for the In Utero tour to replace the blue one. Stock pickups were very shrill. After Kurt's coma in Rome, I thought modifying this guitar would make it a workhorse and get him away from the Mustang-Jaguar image. Hopefully get him perked up. I put on new tuners (Gotoh's - his favorite). A Tele bridge from Stew-Mac with a Humbucker cut-out and individual saddle for each string. In the bridge, I put a Duncan JB - black, and in the neck, and new Gibson PAF, potted with a Chrome cover. He got this 2 weeks before he died, and said it was his new favorite. He used it for the home recordings he was making with Pat and Eric Erlanderson in March 1994 in Kurt's basement.

There's pics of kurt and dave grohl backstage with it before it was modified

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:35 pm

Also on that page is Marvin Berry's ES-345

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:13 pm

ha, its a 1963 es-345. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE 1955!!

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:36 am

Sublimedo wrote:ha, its a 1963 es-345. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE 1955!!

They didn't have ES345's, or humbuckers for that matter, in 1955. Doc pulled some shit, I swear.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:53 am

I guess they just weren't ready for that yet... but their kids are gonna love 'em.
Cue Foreigner

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:17 am

The Marshall was on eBay a few years ago - went for pretty cheap if I remember correctly.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:16 am

I put on new tuners (Gotoh's - his favorite)

KURDT WAS A SMARDT FUCK. FUCK ALL THOSE OTHER FUCKING TURNDERS

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:46 pm

aen · Post by **aen** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:55 pm

I don't get the HUMBUCKER conversion on everthing he played. It all sounds the same through a ds-1.

Which also reminds me, one time we were talking about Steven Segall, and I was all like "he has a Hendrix Jazzmaster" and somebody was like "Thats like a Cobain Telecaster- inthat it doesnt exist" and I was all like "no seriously, hendrix had a jazzmaster and Teh Kurdtz was all about a tele" and the person did not believe me, fuck him.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:07 pm

hahha.

ultraviolence · Post by **ultraviolence** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:30 pm

it kinda seems like Cobain liked the feel of the tele more than any other guitar, but it seems like he prefered the sound of mustangs & jags....maybe not, but it seems like it would make sense cause I don't think he played it live ever..

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:43 pm

I'd say cobain probably liked the LOOK of Jags and Mustangs more than the sound, considering the swapped bridges and pups...

I remember a pic of him playing a sooper ghetto relic'd sunburst tele that somebody refined in blue latex house paint with a scratched out a heart, or something...

Post by **Hurb** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:21 pm

This thread is slipping into noobzville.

ultraviolence · Post by **ultraviolence** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:33 pm

laterallateral wrote:I'd say cobain probably liked the LOOK of Jags and Mustangs more than the sound, considering the swapped bridges and pups...

I remember a pic of him playing a sooper ghetto relic'd sunburst tele that somebody refined in blue latex house paint with a scratched out a heart, or something...

Maybe he did liek the looks of them more, but he probably just liked the way they sounded for his music (with the adjustments he made)

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:21 am

When your Jag has a tune-o-matic and humbuckers, let alone is GAFFA TAPED into the "bridge bucker only" position, you're not going for any kind of "that modified jag" sound. He modified all his guitars to sound like Fat Strats while being really comfortable shortscales, I think.

Actually his Jag was modified when he bought it, and I remain convinced that he was completely clueless as to what a real Jag was like. Why bitch about Mustang bridges and not Jaguar ones? Why conceive of a guitar, greenlight all the parts to it, have it built especially for you 1-3 times over, and then, upon taking delivery of it, have your guitar tech shim the fucking neck to put an incompatible bridge on it?

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:57 am

Well I suppose knew how a real jag sounded, cause when he we in his 'bum' period that was on of the cheapest guitars out there (what Ive read in the internet story's about him) so one he could afford. (maybe Ive wrong, but this is what Ive heard)

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:23 am

i'm surprised people STILL ACTUALLY CARE what fucking bridge kurt cobain used or why he used it, or which brand of gaffa tape he used to stick his switches down. get a grip.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:30 am

More Cowbell wrote:

are you trying to see if anyone would notice ?

Will · Post by **Will** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:32 am

www.kurtsequipment.com

I've read EVERY FUCKING WORD.