Still Kickin Blog
SERVE THE SERVANTS ... Kurt Cobain Jaguar Road Worn
In 2011 Fender introduced a Jaguar based on the guitar Kurt played during the Nevermind era (we have one for sale now), a highly modified 1965 Jag that Kurt acquired in 1991 through the LA Recycler (or so the story goes). Fender's commemorative model seeks to accurately reproduce Kurt's '65 with a gaggle of interesting mods. First off, it has two DiMarzio humbucking pickups--a PAF neck pickup and a Super Distortion bridge. Its alder body sports a nitrocellulose finish reliced to approximate the beating that Kurt inflicted on his. (Factory relicing has a bad rep, but Fender did a pretty good job this time around.)
I LOVE ROCK & ROLL...Gibson Joan Jett Melody Maker
AIN'T THAT A SHAME...Rock Legend Fats Domino Dies
One of the good ones left us today (Oct 25, 2017). Fats Domino died of natural causes at his home in Harvey, Louisiana. This guy was the man back in the 50s. Five records Certified Gold. He sold over 65 million discs. The Fat Man was rockin New Orleans bars at age 14. By age 20, he had sold a million copies of his record, "The Fat Man,"--the first rock & roll record to achieve those numbers.
LIGHT IS RIGHT...Fender '69 Telecaster Thinline
See all our Thinlines in stock + recently sold ones!
The Fender re-issue '69 Telecaster Thinline is a nice take on the iconic Tele. Perhaps most important, it packs a lot of the usual Tele style and twang into a lighter package. Too many great Tele's become 10-pound burdens that kill your back and shoulder, but these babies won't weigh you down. This Daphne Blue one we sold recently is a very comfortable 6 pounds, 14 ounces. The Thinline originally came about in the late...
COLD AS ICE...Ibanez Iceman
Take a ramble through the Wiki page on the Ibanez Iceman and you'll learn the guitar was born in the mid-70s out of a joint idea from the heads of several Japanese guitar manufacturers to come up with their own signature guitar shape. America had the Fender Strat and Gibson Les Paul, and Ibanez, Greco and FujiGen had been copying their designs--and getting very good at it (so good that lawsuits were filed). In fact, Japan was putting out models whose quality was at least on par with their USA counterparts. Only problem was they were mostly...