Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

[Iron Horse]

Theres an interview with Seymour Duncan hin Premier Guitar, and on page 41 Seymour states that the JB standed for Jeff Beck and the JM (now the Jazz Model) standed for John Milner from American Graffiti.
http://digital.premierguitar.com/premierguitar/200808/?folio=36&fm=2

 

[Archer_of_Fish]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

and when Jeff didnt do an endorsement Seymour changed it to Jazz/Blues which is what JB has stood for since production began.

JB doesnt mean Jeff Beck. It means Jazz/Blues. You are changing the context of what Seymour is saying and making it sound like he is saying something that he isnt.

 

[Iron Horse]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

I'm not changing the context. I just said that Seymour had said that the JB 'at the time' stood for Jeff Beck, and now that Jeff doesn't have an endorsement deal with Seymour Duncan, the JB's meaning has 'changed'. As has the (John Milner's) Jazz Models's, too.
I just thought that some would be interested to know where the name of the Jazz model came from, because it's not particularly a jazz pickup.
Edit: And, Seymour says that this was way before manufacturing pickups bigtime.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

Nice article - I enjoyed reading that. Thanks for the link.

 

[SAVAGE DISTORTION]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

AHA! so "cause we ended as lovers " was the JB then
sweet friggin tone and playing there !:headbang:

 

[SAVAGE DISTORTION]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

and when Jeff didnt do an endorsement Seymour changed it to Jazz/Blues which is what JB has stood for since production began.

JB doesnt mean Jeff Beck. It means Jazz/Blues. You are changing the context of what Seymour is saying and making it sound like he is saying something that he isnt.

dude chill out IRON HORSE was not changing anything:nono:

 

[JeffB]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

It's blatantly obvious that JB means Jeff Beck, I find it kinda funny how they changed "the meaning"- which is "business marketing spin" for "no endorsement deal, so we had to make up something that used the initals "J" and "B" even though it doesn't describe the pup very well at all"

Kinda like "that depends on what the definition of "is", is" :lmao:

regardless, cool pickup

 

[SAVAGE DISTORTION]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

It's blatantly obvious that JB means Jeff Beck, I find it kinda funny how they changed "the meaning"- which is "business marketing spin" for "no endorsement deal, so we had to make up something that used the initals "J" and "B" even though it doesn't describe the pup very well at all"

Kinda like "that depends on what the definition of "is", is" :lmao:

regardless, cool pickup

then of course they are the older JBJ models which i still feel are the best sounding other than the very early seymour personally wound ones and many agree with this.
Maricela Juarez just has the "gift" man, and seymour
knows it!
She has wound some of the greatest pup's on the face of the earth:headbang:

 

[jafo]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

AHA! so "cause we ended as lovers " was the JB then
sweet friggin tone and playing there !:headbang:

+1000! One of the best "Les Paul" tones ever, came from a Tele(Gib)caster. It's funny, though... that tone sounds nothing at all like the JB that ruled the 80s. "Bark at the Moon," for example, was also recorded on a JB, and the two tones have nothing in common. But since the official dogma around here is that the JB has never changed, perhaps the obvious differences are due to string guage and pup height... err, wait, that actually would make that kind of difference... :doh:

 

[Robert Delahunt]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

I just thought that some would be interested to know where the name of the Jazz model came from, because it's not particularly a jazz pickup.

Ok, now you are really smoking crack. Every time I've played any guitar with the Jazz neck pickup into a clean tube amp, regardless of what guitar it was in, it sounded almost bloody perfect for Jazz. Stop trolling.

EDIT: and for what it's worth, who cares what the pickups are called? That's business. They could call the Jazz the Wimp and the JB the Dork and I'd still happily play those pickups in my Schecter C-1 Classic. Seriously, the whole "it's the jeff beck >> no it's not!" is getting stupid. It's been hashed and rehashed. The horse is dead: stop beating it.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

I must be a troll as well, coz I think the Jazz is one of the worst choices I've ever heard for jazz. Fusion, maybe, but old school, archtop w/ flatwound string jazz? No way.

A product's name should have at least something to do with it. The average pickup customer is buying largely on name, and I can't understand why you'd want to mislead them.

FWIW, the first pickup I ever bought was a Screamin Demon. Based on the name, I expected a crazy hot pickup, which is NOT what I got. Because of that, I spent the next few years using DiMarzio and EMG.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

Ok, now you are really smoking crack. Every time I've played any guitar with the Jazz neck pickup into a clean tube amp, regardless of what guitar it was in, it sounded almost bloody perfect for Jazz. Stop trolling.

I must be really smoking crack too, because it's never sounded very "jazzy" to me.

 

[hanumanlangur]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

The Jazz can do jazz alright, it just needs the tone knob turned down. But yeah, it's basically a plain jane humbucker, it's doubtful that Seymour ever meant it for jazz playing. "Clear" is just about its only characteristic, but that makes it a jack of all trades.

 

[jafo]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

I guess it depends on your definition of jazz. The Jazz would work really well for that modern, clean & chorused, Berzerkeley-approved tone, but it's not what most people consider usual for jazz. I'm still a n00b on the sidelines, but to my ears the Jazz doesn't have the same character and warmth as a traditional jazz box pup -- but it also doesn't have the same woolly, sometimes irritating lower mids (excesses of which a lot of jazz guys prefer; go fig).

 

[ginormous]

Re: Just thought you'd like to know (JB/Jazz name orgin, SD interview)

Most jazz guys play at least semi-hollow (335 or clones), so that might warm things up a bit with the JB. There's some character that fills in with a big box 350, but the real hardcore bebop guys would prefer a floating pup that didn't go into the wood.