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Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:05 am
by VREEEEVROOOOOW
Oh, cool. The Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster Vintage White looks pretty neat. I'd love to try one. Their in stock locally. Maybe I'll give it a go sometime!
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:18 am
by Errant Tiger
VREEEEVROOOOOW wrote:Are there any cheap Jazzmasters that aren't just plain bad compared to the more expensive ones? I don't know much about Jazzmasters except that Kevin Shields, J. Mascis, & Taka use them (that's like all three styles of guitar playing I care about!), and I really like how nice they seem to be for tremolo picking, neck access, and for playing seated. And I'd love to have a guitar with a tremolo system.
I got a Squier Mascis a couple months ago - only my second electric guitar after 30 years of being a Les Paul guy - and I absolutely love it. Some mods I'll do if I get the dough, for sure, but it blows away the Fender American Whatever I tried.
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:44 pm
by dubkitty
the thing to know about the JMJM is that the pickups aren't proper Jazzmaster pickups which are characterized by a wide flat coil. the Mascis PUs are apparently a P90-esque coil under a Jazzmaster cover.
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:02 pm
by resincum
Errant Tiger wrote:VREEEEVROOOOOW wrote:Are there any cheap Jazzmasters that aren't just plain bad compared to the more expensive ones? I don't know much about Jazzmasters except that Kevin Shields, J. Mascis, & Taka use them (that's like all three styles of guitar playing I care about!), and I really like how nice they seem to be for tremolo picking, neck access, and for playing seated. And I'd love to have a guitar with a tremolo system.
I got a Squier Mascis a couple months ago - only my second electric guitar after 30 years of being a Les Paul guy - and I absolutely love it. Some mods I'll do if I get the dough, for sure, but it blows away the Fender American Whatever I tried.
VMJM with a mastery bridge and upgraded electronics is like the best bang for your buck
i finally got a mastery for my avri 65 and well it's just ethereal now
kevin shields doesn't even use them tho
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:54 pm
by VREEEEVROOOOOW
dubkitty wrote:the thing to know about the JMJM is that the pickups aren't proper Jazzmaster pickups which are characterized by a wide flat coil. the Mascis PUs are apparently a P90-esque coil under a Jazzmaster cover.
I guess I should find someone who can play Unseen Harbor by MONO flawlessly with the same fx & amp, but a JMJM instead of Taka's '90s JM, to hear if I can tell the difference.
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:34 pm
by O Drones
Taka’s JM is a ‘66
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:49 pm
by dubkitty
well, tbf the JMJM pickups aren't BAD per se...when they first came out i got to try out two with different pickups and preferred the stock pickups to the Fralins in the other, which were wimpy lower-output surf style things and pretty useless for much other than mid-60s beach music.
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:59 pm
by dubkitty
it's just that it won't "sound like a Jazzmaster." for an "authentic" Jazzmaster sound you'll need to swap out the pickups. but if you like them the stock pickups are totally adequate. and if you use enough effects nobody will be able to tell anyway
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:15 pm
by tremolo3
"the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder"
Re: Kevin Shields Jazzmaster 60th anniversary vids
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:19 am
by dubkitty
the all-time classic Mayor Daley pere malapropism...this was during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots, and he meant to say "...is there to preserve order." instead, he came up with one of the great anarchist statements of the 20th century completely by accident.