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Fender '65 Jaguar And Fender '72 Jazz Bass: The Black Angels Turn Back The Clock

May 19, 2008
Fender Jag And Jazz

We've still got more with The Black Angels seeing as how Kyle Hunt and Christian Bland own a seemingly endless amount of fascinating instruments and effects. Here, Christian and Kyle show us a couple of instruments older than either of them including a '65 Fender Jaguar and a '72 Fender Jazz Bass.

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CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. It's a 1965 Jag that sounds awesome.

KYLE HUNT: Killer.

PATRICK OGLE: And that's all original stuff on there?

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah.

KYLE HUNT: Yeah. I think it's a refin but everything else is original.

PATRICK OGLE: The finish is different but the guitar is the same.

KYLE HUNT: Perfect player's guitar. You know, if you buy an original guitar as a player, you're going to beat it up.

PATRICK OGLE: Right.

KYLE HUNT: So you might as well just buy a refinished one to save you the thousand of dollars on the cost and then you've, you know, it's not the end of the world if you drop a mic stand on it.

PATRICK OGLE: I pointed out that that guitar is like you -- one of the ways you can tell older Fenders is that...

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: ...the truss rod can't be adjusted from the top of the neck.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: Usually you have to take the neck off of the guitar to adjust it.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. Exactly.

KYLE HUNT: This is another old one. It's a '72 Jazz Bass which I believe was the last year of the four-bolt neck. It's got -- I wanted one with the black inlays and the binding just because I thought it looked really cool. The guy who I got it from had painted it red. Everything is original, pickups. There's been a little routing done I believe under this cavity because, you know, everybody put active stuff in there in the '80s. But it's all back to original. The back of the neck has been steel wooled so it's really soft and smooth.

PATRICK OGLE: Do you find that some of the basses, the Jazz Basses and even the P-Basses and what they have those really sticky necks from that time period?

KYLE HUNT: Yeah. I mean this is just -- It's, you know, I guess it's the type of lacquer they use. You can still feel it on the headstock but, you know, the guy that I got it from was also a touring musician and had played it for years and was just cleaning house so I scooped it up and it's been basically my only bass for a long time now.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Have you heard of Eastwood guitars?

PATRICK OGLE: I don't know.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Man, they're really cool. They're putting out the reissues of like -- They're reissuing the Airline guitars.

PATRICK OGLE: Oh. Okay, okay.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: And like this is a reissue of a Gretsch bass, and I mean it sounds really good, and you know it's brand new.

PATRICK OGLE: Where are they out of?

CHRISTIAN BLAND: I don't know.

KYLE HUNT: I'm sure it's an American brand but they're made -- they're Chinese.

PATRICK OGLE: Okay.

KYLE HUNT: So they might come with lead in them.

PATRICK OGLE: [LAUGHING]

CHRISTIAN BLAND: [LAUGHING]

KYLE HUNT: [LAUGHING]

CHRISTIAN BLAND: That's why they're cheaper.

KYLE HUNT: Yeah. You know, that thing sounds awesome.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. It really does.

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