I know the thread title sounds like a bad joke, but it's a serious question. How did the Jaguar get its name? My guitar-geekery runs to such depths that I know how the tele, strat, jazzmaster etc. came by their monickers, but I've no idea why the Jag is called a Jag.
Now for the embarrassing admission that prompts my question: me and my son were listening to Six Organs of Admittance in the car at the weekend, and the guitar sounded ace, and I said to my son "It sounds like a leopard, doesn't it?" (He's three - I have to try and keep him interested or else he insists I put Dolly Parton on). Then I thought to myself "Hang on - that's a Jaguar!"
What I suppose I'm asking, shortscale, is did the Jaguar get its name because it can sound like a jaguar?
Clearly not, I dunno what you're eating but I'm pretty sure that Leo Fender and his crew weren't pioneers of Synesthasia and Hippie Pseudo Wank.
We know the Jazzmaster came first, and that the Jaguar was the next stage on. To me it seems smaller, faster (shortscale) and more brash than the Jazzmaster. Jaguar.
Mike wrote:Clearly not, I dunno what you're eating but I'm pretty sure that Leo Fender and his crew weren't pioneers of Synesthasia and Hippie Pseudo Wank.
We know the Jazzmaster came first, and that the Jaguar was the next stage on. To me it seems smaller, faster (shortscale) and more brash than the Jazzmaster. Jaguar.
Hence 'Stratocaster' and 'Telecaster' - made up words, suggesting, variously, flight, communication and futuristic-ness? Clearly they were eating the same thing as me, you miserable cur.
And how do you know that a 'Jazzmaster' (as a concept, not a guitar) is bigger than a jaguar? And who said jaguars were brash? They may be very mellow creatures.
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benecol wrote:And how do you know that a 'Jazzmaster' (as a concept, not a guitar) is bigger than a jaguar? And who said jaguars were brash? They may be very mellow creatures.
How do I know it's Bigger? Because it is. The Body is noticeably larger, you fuckin' n00b.
Mike wrote:We know the Jazzmaster came first, and that the Jaguar was the next stage on. To me it seems smaller, faster (shortscale) and more brash than the Jazzmaster. Jaguar.
No you dick, you said it seems smaller, as if the nomenclature was chosen because the thing it was named after was smaller than the thing the Jazzmaster was named after. Also, if you're implying that the Jaguar sounds brasher than the Jazzmaster, hence Jaguar, then you are secretly agreeing with me that they must have named the Jaguar, at least partly, after how a Jaguar sounds.
Ha.
And I know, because I've had a proper Jaguar with a nitro finish and everything.
