Effortless playability
Designed for precision and comfort, the Kurt Cobain signature Jaguar comes packed with luxurious features that deliver a fantastic playing experience. A modern “C” maple neck offers a silky-smooth grip ensuring a comfortable playing experience and ultimate control of the instrument. A luscious rosewood fretboard provides a cushioned surface to flurry across, accenting every note with clear crisp tones. A delight to play, once you’ve picked it up you will struggle putting it down.
Smells like clean spirit
This signature jaguar comes equipped with two DiMarzio humbuckers at the neck and bridge. Versatile in nature, both pickups can simultaneously deliver crystal, clear, cleans and destructive, shattering distortion. Perfectly designed to capture every essence of Kurt’s tone, you will be performing the blasting power chords of lithium one minute and then next jumping to the wistful whirls of come as you are, every opportunity is a chance for these pickups to excel. Total tonal control is also delivered by a three-position switch and the iconic jaguar lead circuit controls, meaning every minute detail of your beauty can be shaped to suit your performance.
A solid alder body
Alder is often favoured by guitarists for its incredibly balanced tone and unrivalled subtlety in its dynamics, meaning that it’s tone is ideal for use with a multitude of genres. Offering excellent sustain and vibrant resonance, each note soars with length cutting through the mix with ease. Delivering bright searing highs, a bold beefy mid-range, and well-rounded lows achieve an excellent foundation to the guitar’s overall tone, allowing it to suit any style.
Kurt Cobain
Genre-defining, cultural icon and musical revolutionary are all terms that have been used to describe Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Appearing on the scene in 1989, at the tail end of the hardcore punk and metal eras and clear influence from these genres, Nirvana released debut album ‘Bleach’ to critical acclaim but very little commercial success. Almost overnight, more accurately over a months’ time, Kurt and Nirvana became international superstars with their release of sophomore album ‘Nevermind’ in September 1991. Only originally expected to achieve a sales number of 250,000 records it was soon clear that this was a huge miscalculation, with the album being certified platinum in November of the same year.
Kurt captivated a generation with his dissonant and disorganised guitar playing, thrashing power chords throughout songs, and performing soaring but clumsy guitar solos. Butch Vig producer of Nevermind is quoted of saying “He had a kind of primal instinct for playing the guitar”. Even though Kurt wasn’t the most virtuosic, his natural ability and song writing gave him the prestige in alternative rock to become a modern guitar idol.
