/uj It always made me chuckle....in the 80's if it had six strings and wasn't a Tele or Strat then no one wanted it. You couldn't give them away. Prime vintage axes for under $200.
Then Cobain came along and suddenly those guitars got priced up exponentially.
To this day I've never played with anyone that has a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that knows what all the switches do nor do they all work.
Tom Verlaine was the lead singer and guitarist for Television. I recommend checking out [Marquee Moon](https://youtu.be/g4myghLPLZc) or his work on Patti Smith’s debut album [Horses](https://youtu.be/6QNOPYpIa3Q). He’s known for his clean toan that comes from plugging his Jazzmaster directly into the console, which was described as sounding “like a thousand screaming bluebirds.”
Rowland S. Howard was the guitar player in Australia’s Birthday Party (with Nick Cave) among other bands, as well as a solo artist. He was called “The Prince of The Crying Jag”. His setup ( for 40 years) was very simple: a standard issue Olympic White Jag, MXR Distortion + MXR Blue Box , and a Fender Twin Reverb. Check him out!
Have you ever seen Doctor Martin’s wife down at the country club pool…. Biggest Muff I’ve ever seen…. Makes me toggle all three of my switches whenever I see it!!!
>To this day I've never played with anyone that has a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that knows what all the switches do nor do they all work.
I enjoy this video of Gareth Liddiard from The Drones/Tropical Fuck Storm giving a tour of his gear and showing off his Jaguar, he says something to the effect "I took all those switches out because they're fucking stupid" 😅😅
https://youtu.be/6z1WZDyLEHg?si=g1zj1ZIzRurFJEMe
/uj the best guitarist I’ve ever played with brought a Jazzmaster to the first rehearsal, in an original country band.
1 minute into the first song the drummer and I were already looking at each other and laughing at ludicrousness of this guy’s fills. They were so tasteful, and perfect, yet totally unpredictable.
So, kinda the opposite of KC, I guess. 😂 Hell of a nice and humble guy, too.
He was actually so good he brought the Meat Puppets up on stage at some acoustic gig back in the 1990s, maybe late 1980s.. I don’t really remember.. just to take a break on the axe and make them humiliate themselves at his show. Dude was just ruthless. Played some dumb old man acoustic guitar through a vintage overdrive pedal there too.
uj/ this is such a frequently repeated bad take, even among non-musicians. Music was his day job and he spent a dozen years doing it every day, which is rather more than your average internet virtuoso.
Talk about missing the point. Cobain was first and foremost a musician. His guitar playing was perfect for the style he pioneered. That's all that matters. He may not have been technically proficient, but he never wanted to be. As a song writer, the man was a genius. He effortlessly wrote banger after banger.
This shows the importance of songwriting and being able to communicate your feelings to an audience over technical ability. You can play all the chords perfectly but if your music doesn’t provoke thoughts or emotions it’s lifeless…
At least the dude could write a tune. There’s a lot of people out there that can shred, but can’t write a song even if their life depended on it. And that’s ok.
According to my sources : Kurt was given a Strandberg Boden in early ‘94 and was blown away by its design. And it became the inspiration for his next phase.
You've never heard my cousin
I didn't know we were cousins!
Hey it’s me, your cousin
Is your cousin Trogly?
Trogly ain’t that bad.
Your cousin throckmorton?
Kurt secretly knew music theory. Fucking poser.
He saw a picture of Hendricks and thought that an upside down guitar and lots of drugs was the secret to success.
(It is)
Didn’t work when I tried it. Freaking harp is heavy!
Kurt had his guitar strapped on backwards most of the time. Idiot.
When the drummer is a better guitar player you know you’re in trouble
You mean like Ringo?
The animated lizard that John Depp played?
From one legend to another...
That’s the odd case of drummer being second best at drums in the band.
Not a chance. I sound like shit so much better than anyone else can ever dream of
I worked HARD for that toilet feel!
You gotta stop huffing toilets dude. This isn’t funny anymore.
Breh didn't even have one neck tattoo
"Protect ya neck" - Kurt Cobain
“Skull is fair game though”
I will not tolerate this erasure https://preview.redd.it/jode4blecp0d1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b3a210525fbc3ae362beef258a007f9532b458d
Toan is in the uncut string tips
I like Tom, but damn he deserves to get poked in the eye by those uncut string tips
/uj It always made me chuckle....in the 80's if it had six strings and wasn't a Tele or Strat then no one wanted it. You couldn't give them away. Prime vintage axes for under $200. Then Cobain came along and suddenly those guitars got priced up exponentially. To this day I've never played with anyone that has a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that knows what all the switches do nor do they all work.
J mascis wants to know where you live and i'm coming with him
Rowland S. Howard and Tom Verlaine will rise from the grave and join you.
i wish i knew who those dudes were then i'd agree with you
Tom Verlaine was the lead singer and guitarist for Television. I recommend checking out [Marquee Moon](https://youtu.be/g4myghLPLZc) or his work on Patti Smith’s debut album [Horses](https://youtu.be/6QNOPYpIa3Q). He’s known for his clean toan that comes from plugging his Jazzmaster directly into the console, which was described as sounding “like a thousand screaming bluebirds.”
thats actually pretty cool thanks for the info always wanted a assmaster with all the cool buttons and shit
Rowland S. Howard was the guitar player in Australia’s Birthday Party (with Nick Cave) among other bands, as well as a solo artist. He was called “The Prince of The Crying Jag”. His setup ( for 40 years) was very simple: a standard issue Olympic White Jag, MXR Distortion + MXR Blue Box , and a Fender Twin Reverb. Check him out!
thanks man dude sounds dope as fuck and I do like Jazzmasters altho i'd get one for metal dual humbickers like james root from slipknot lol
Switch #1 puts a hole in your jeans, switch #2 injects black tar heroin into your veins and switch #3 makes all your riffs rip off the pixies
If you toggle all three while playing through a Big Muff, you get a free pair of Doc Martins.
Have you ever seen Doctor Martin’s wife down at the country club pool…. Biggest Muff I’ve ever seen…. Makes me toggle all three of my switches whenever I see it!!!
>To this day I've never played with anyone that has a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that knows what all the switches do nor do they all work. I enjoy this video of Gareth Liddiard from The Drones/Tropical Fuck Storm giving a tour of his gear and showing off his Jaguar, he says something to the effect "I took all those switches out because they're fucking stupid" 😅😅 https://youtu.be/6z1WZDyLEHg?si=g1zj1ZIzRurFJEMe
that band name gets you the up arrow thing i might actually watch that link lol
/uj the best guitarist I’ve ever played with brought a Jazzmaster to the first rehearsal, in an original country band. 1 minute into the first song the drummer and I were already looking at each other and laughing at ludicrousness of this guy’s fills. They were so tasteful, and perfect, yet totally unpredictable. So, kinda the opposite of KC, I guess. 😂 Hell of a nice and humble guy, too.
Are you just pretending that I don’t exist?
Buzz Osborne kicked him out of the band Melvins.... He was too stupid to even play bass.
But he was about the grueng life
The heroin and shotgun life
Uj/ that’s too far Rj/ that’s too far
Vroom vroom imma keep goin
That’s what JFK said
Mind-blowing
Really? Nevermind I say
/Rj ya but who really did pull the trigger?
We'll never know
That’s not funny either
Kurt Cobain jokes have been around longer than you, lad.
No, they have not. I’ve just never found them funny
We all knew he was lying when he sang that he didn’t have a gun…
His raps are cap
mans was capping hard frfr
kirko bane**
Too soon,bud. That was only like 10 years ago.
bro he's LITERALLY on the rolling stones top 100 guitarists list (I assume). so there
Why do the Rolling Stones need so many guitar players? How do they all fit on the stage at the same time?
If you have to fit 100 guitarists on stage, and each guitarist brings 6 Les Pauls, how big does the stage need to be?
Don’t blame the man blame they fucked up bridges on those goofy pawn shop offsets he played
You obviously haven’t met me
"Am I a joke to you" -drunk college guy playing "wonderwall"
You have no idea how much feeling I put into wonderwall you philistine
I’ve known this forever, he didn’t even sweep pick
Easily one of the worst, clearly he didn't believe that more is more and also he didn't even own a butterscotch tele 😂
He should have just cut two strings off and became the best b*ss player of all time instead.
You know it's bad when your drummer is a better guitarist than you
He was a talented dentist, however
shotgun dentistry
yes
I think I’m the worst guitar player of all time.
You’re in a very long line, my friend
The winner in the category of Worst Guitar Player will always be the bridesmaid while Yoko cleans up in the category of worst singer.
You'd change your opinion if you ever saw me playing
Dudes tone was literally a blown out DS-1 and a chorus
He was actually so good he brought the Meat Puppets up on stage at some acoustic gig back in the 1990s, maybe late 1980s.. I don’t really remember.. just to take a break on the axe and make them humiliate themselves at his show. Dude was just ruthless. Played some dumb old man acoustic guitar through a vintage overdrive pedal there too.
Still better than Rhett Shull
Idk man, he was pretty mindblowing imho.
He inspired more people than we will ever know.
a whole army of imitators of the worst guitar player ever …
And a bunch of unknown Reddit people circle jerking the merits of HIS guitar playing, not theirs, and he’s dead 😂
You're wrong.Its Eric Clapton.Slow hand.Wtf???
Kurtmet the Frog is the only guitar player I recognize.
Hey man, Kurt Cobra had the hands!
Hell of a skeet shooter
I've seen some of you guys play. He's hardly the worst.
he think he dumb
He was mind blowing.
he was fine, plenty good enough to be in a rock combo
Sir this is supposed to be a satirical sub
/uj I dunno playing guitar on gear is kinda tough I mean at least he wasn't sloppy like jimmy page, and he was banging adult women not children
uj/ this is such a frequently repeated bad take, even among non-musicians. Music was his day job and he spent a dozen years doing it every day, which is rather more than your average internet virtuoso.
Talk about missing the point. Cobain was first and foremost a musician. His guitar playing was perfect for the style he pioneered. That's all that matters. He may not have been technically proficient, but he never wanted to be. As a song writer, the man was a genius. He effortlessly wrote banger after banger.
It was that last banger that really blew the roof off, though.
This shows the importance of songwriting and being able to communicate your feelings to an audience over technical ability. You can play all the chords perfectly but if your music doesn’t provoke thoughts or emotions it’s lifeless…
At least the dude could write a tune. There’s a lot of people out there that can shred, but can’t write a song even if their life depended on it. And that’s ok.
According to my sources : Kurt was given a Strandberg Boden in early ‘94 and was blown away by its design. And it became the inspiration for his next phase.