Pickups in Cobain’s in utero mustang

[Blille]

I just went to the Pop Museum in Seattle. I always though the bridge was a JB and the neck a hot rails. Maybe I’m too much of a SD fan? I guess he must have had several.

What is that humbucker? The writing was blurry in person too

[Clint 55]

Awesome! It's supposed to be a JB in the bridge and the stock Fender Mustang true single coil in the neck. I'll look for some clips where you can hear the JB crunch/clank clean.

You can hear it pretty well in this one. I don't think I've ever come across a clip of him on the single coil clean. He uses the neck pickup on Polly but I don't see a clip with that guitar.

[Spaghetti Bolo]

I remember reading decades ago that he used the Super Distortion for his entire career and only switched to the JB during the In Utero tour. I think I see the faded smudged rements of the Duncan logo on that bucker.

[Clint 55]

You should probably do some current reading then. His infamous 65 Jaguar has a Super D in the bridge but he used all kind of guitars and pickups. My all time favorite sound of his is a Hot Rails in the bridge of a Strat.

Jaguar:

https://www.groundguitar.com/kurt-cobain-gear/kurt-cobains-1965-fender-jaguar/

Guitars:

https://www.groundguitar.com/kurt-cobain-gear/

[Spaghetti Bolo]

Hehe I was thinking of that Strat when I made my post. I know he used all kinds but the SD was the go to replacement. His tech was trying to convert him to Teles before he blew his head off.

[Clint 55]

the SD was the go to replacement. His tech was trying to convert him to Teles before he blew his head off.

I don't think so.

[Blille]

So now I’m more curious lol

I checked and saw that this guitar had a black bridge pickup (I assume JB) most of the time but then I saw the white pickup in the in utero tour pics, three months before his death.

I’ve had my fair share of worn SD pickups and this didn’t look like that. I can be wrong obviously. The font looked more gold than silver and the font more like the one in Black Winters than times new roman.

[Clint 55]

They were his custom Fender Mustangs and there were several of them.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/kurt-cobains-custom-1993-fender-mustang-used-on-nirvanas-in-utero-tour-is-up-for-auction

Again:

https://www.groundguitar.com/kurt-cobain-gear/

[beaubrummels]

Bridge just looks like a Duncan with the logo attempted to be smeared off to me, or perhaps just damaged from something spilled or done to it.

[Blille]

I’m going back tomorrow and plugging it into the Hiwatt to confirm.


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[Clint 55]

Yas

[Adieu]

That can't be the original gear can it? Doesn't look like something (ab)used by Kurt, too fresh and clean

[JB_From_Hell]

That can't be the original gear can it? Doesn't look like something (ab)used by Kurt, too fresh and clean

I think there were only a couple of those Jagstangs, and he didn’t have them for all that long, so maybe this one wasn’t a smashing guitar.

I might be talking out of my ass on this one, but I also remember a story about a music store getting shipped the red one they built for Kurt but never delivered to him.

[Clint 55]

It's not a Jagstang, it's his custom Mustang. There are clips of him playing his red and blue Jagstangs. He didn't destroy them because he liked them as they were custom made for him. He would destroy stock strats during this time period. Smh at all of you lol.

[PFDarkside]

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