The guitar that started it all...

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:55 am

yea, that video

BTW, what album is that song on?

IroniaSudby · Post by **IroniaSudby** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:02 am

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:18 am

ah, after hearing that mercy seat song I picked up these:

and they were a huge letdown.

IroniaSudby · Post by **IroniaSudby** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:32 am

From what i heard, those 2 are nothing like the first one.

tomin8r · Post by **tomin8r** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:52 am

I think the guitar that started me off for a short scale would have to be Frusciante's Jag from the Under the Bridge video. I saw it and I was like whoa, that thing sounds like win, must have it! Been longing for an old, beat up Ocean Turq Jag ever since.

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:27 am

Reece wrote:short scale dot org got me into shortscales.

Now that's a good reference, if I've ever heard one!

oolu · Post by **oolu** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:33 am

mage wrote:yea, that video

An ORANGE Jaguar? Why have I never seen such a thing? I don't know if that's awesome or ugly.

Stan Kwervo · Post by **Stan Kwervo** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:11 am

My friend Brambleperro and I stumbled upon this great site and I realized how good looking mustangs were. After playing just one and loving how "pathetic/clacky" out-of-phase sounded I had to have one. I got my custard yellow with brown tort '69 reissue off ebay for 360$ in March of '08 and I've loved it ever since.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:26 am

was looking for info on my mustang bass, and this place jumped up. then noticed what an funny place this is, so decided to...

RUIN IT FOR EVERYBODY.

just by being myself

laamaposse · Post by **laamaposse** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:42 am

Thom wrote:It was teh Kurtz...I guess his Mustangs, but when it came to it, I wanted a Jag-Stang, and got it...1997...
Still the guitar that feels "right" to me. Often repeated, but the neck is simply sublime.

+1 for kurdtz, but as in scumburst jag.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:13 am

Kurdtz.
Jag-Stang.
Only liked the neck.
Got rid.

kypdurron · Post by **kypdurron** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:00 pm

Blixa Bargeld with Nick Cave. That video is from about the time I saw them live for the first time (or a very few years earlier) and features Bargeld "playing" a Mustang. Weird tones. I loved it (and still do sometimes).

[youtube][/youtube]

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:57 pm

When I was a kid, I thought everything teh kurdtz played was a "Mustang" (this was before the internet). I noticed that some of his "Mustangs" looked a lot better than others, namely his sunburst one with the humbuckers...

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:49 pm

IroniaSudby wrote:

+1!
I still have that on vinyl. I think i saw the Mercy Seat video around the same time as Freak Scene but the Dino one had more impact on me.

[youtube][/youtube]

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:16 pm

Definitely Cobain's Jag

It set the stage for my love of the Jaguar and off-set bodies in general.

From there, the next biggest shortscales are basses for me;
Chris Murphy's Fender Mustang Bass,

and Robert Smith's Fender VI

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:10 pm

I first saw the Mustangs in 1990 on a Mudhoney album cover and Jags when Nevermind came out in 91. They were almost impossible for a 16 year old to get, so when my mate got a sunburst Jazzmaster I used to borrow that to play in the band we had.

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:24 pm

buying a jag-stang because i liked fenders and it was was different than others.

joining the jag-stang.com forums, turned onto to sonic youth through that board in its glory (2002-2003). Sonic Youth's gear site just made it worse.. so like most of you I was drawn to the noisy 90's slacker stuff, funny how that is with mustang/jag/jazzer players..

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:58 pm

69RI mustang. got it by luck. it was under $300 and i loved the neck.

then i kinda put 2+2 together by watching the kurtses.

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:46 pm

i totally agree with tomin8r, that old jag frusciante had was sooo nice
didnt he take the frets out or summut?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:08 am

I saw a sunburst jag in guitar center in about 1996, about 6 months before I played guitar, while in there with my brother who'd just started. It looked like it was the one everyone wished they had to me, and will never have that impression from an electric guitar again, like "whoa dude..."
A few years later after I'd had a Squier Strat and Epi SG, I wanted a Mustang because of teh kurdtz. The prices on CIJs went up a lot in shops/catalogs because they stopped importing the CIJs (from $450 to $650) so I got a jag-stang (which were still $450), then about 8 months later a Jag.
The Jaguar ended up being much better for me so it's A#1 and now we've been through so much together. I still remember the way it smelled the first day and it's seen me on the job and everything.