Last night I had a dream that I had jazzmaster and that playing it made me very happy. Unfortunately, no jazzmaster when I woke up.

@LuizdeCastro06

7 жыл бұрын

Crazy drummer same here! I am going to buy a "jazzmaster" by Tagima (here in Brazil Fenders costs more than cars!).

@LeeCzere

6 жыл бұрын

I'm having that dream more and more. Tomorrow, I'll be, like, fuck rent, and buy a JMJM

240p, my old friend, we meet again...

Danny Adler still uses the same turquoise Jazzmaster as in the 1970s. I know--I'm still playing with him.

I think Elvis Costello has mellowed out over the years (meaning he is long over his "angry young man" phase). I love the guy...he is so open minded about music (friends with everyone from George Jones to Gregg Allman and all across the music spectrum). Talent running out his ears. I was just listening to the "Trust" album recently. One of my favorites. A brilliant record.

@oppothumbs1

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad his first 5 or 6 albums were so great and since then he sucks imo. Sure Trust is one of the good ones. my fave is This years model. I know most of the great talents mellow and their music gets worse (imo) but Graham Parker has done better in his later years.

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

@@oppothumbs1 Just because he made other music that "your favs" doesn't mean he sucked since then, it just means you're closed minded or unrefined. How many albums have you made, and in how many genres?

@thewhoman3182

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno I liked Costello's angry image but it wouldn't suit him nowadays.

@erichimes3062

3 жыл бұрын

@@oppothumbs1 Brutal Youth (1994) is a really good record with the Attractions

@peterowen9183

3 жыл бұрын

Elvis has always been a lover of every kind of music. The 'angry young man' was an act that he adopted for eighteen months to get himself noticed, to get a foot in the door. That's what you did then - and, I guess, probably still do - if you're trying to get a break. Adopt a persona that might get you on TV or on the radio! He is, and always has been, an incredibly thoughtful musician with a labyrinthine knowledge of all genres of popular music.

Memo to Fender, you GOTTA put Elvis' sig Jazzmaster back into production. That varnish finish is damn lovely.

@green323turbo

7 жыл бұрын

Could be Tru-oil gunstock finish.

Imagine Jerry Garcia picking up Costello's Jazzmaster and havin a go at it. Mind blowing

@jamesakin

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't there, but it happened at the old Sweetwater location in Mill Valley CA after some charity event or possibly the BAM (Bay Area Music) annual awards show. I had recently moved to San Francisco, and learned about Sweetwater and its neighboring business, the incredible Village Music record store, from an interview with Elvis published around the same time. A week or two later, I recall poring over a photo of Elvis and Jerry jamming on the night in question, probably in the pages of the BAM alt-weekly paper. Elvis was sporting the rabbinical look seen on the cover of the Mighty Like a Rose album, and I doubt I'd have recognized him without the caption, but seeing Garcia with a Jazzmaster would have clued me that something unusual was happening. :) In a later interview with Garcia in a guitar magazine, Jerry said Elvis uses extremely heavy-gauge strings on the Jazzmaster-he joked they were like steel cables-and said he found it challenging to do bends and vibrato with that setup.

I love how he talks about Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd of Television playing these, and that "you don't see many jazz players playing Jazzmasters..."and "It was designed for the mellower sound...which nobody wants..."

@LaughingStock_

3 жыл бұрын

Even more impressive is his mention of Garnet Mimms

@chrismaclean4363

3 жыл бұрын

I've never seen any footage or a single photo of Lloyd playing a Jazzmaster actually, Verlaine of course as well as Jags, but Lloyd only ever strats and teles. Maybe he did at some shows back then that there's no evidence of that Elvis may have seen.

"Marquee Moon" is in the top 5 guitar albums of all time, imho.

@elwrongo

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I was very pleased to hear he liked that record and it makes sense too

I don't know much about guitars, but I recognized right away on "Pump It Up" that Elvis Costello was playing a Jazzmaster and thought of Tom Verlaine's use of the guitar. So I'm glad to know that EC knows the band Television and Verlaine's use of the guitar from their album "Marquee Moon" and more.

thats the most relaxed elvis ive seen, and he lets out a for real LAUGH!

Brutal sounding guitar. Perfect.

glad to hear he respects Television!

@mattgilbert7347

6 жыл бұрын

Zachary Piazza Yeah man. Love for "Marquee Moon" is what separates good ears from bad, imho.

@Notecrusher

6 жыл бұрын

And Verlaine and Lloyd.

@LaughingStock_

3 жыл бұрын

Even more impressive is his mention of Garnet Mimms

Elvis is a badass. He knows how to play a Jazzmaster.

So true. I love that you can see where he's worn the finish off one of them, so you know it's not "just another Jazzmaster", it's HIS.

Thanks Elvis, straight down the edge with a bit of warmth thrown in. What a great songwriter and what a cool guitar!

jazz masters are such timeless guitars..love them@!

I really enjoyed the inside information he gave on a personal instrument. I can assimilate. Great interview.

What a great interview he is!!!

Robert Smith got me into jazzmasters and i've loved them ever since the 80's, they do pretty much everything I want and a PRS covers the rest :)

There was one great jazz player who made his name in "Western Swing"& became a pretty strong Jazzer in the early 60s. He was a friend of Leo Fender & it has been suggested that this player named *ROY LANHAM* was responsible for a lot of the evolution of the JAZZMASTER.I adore his playing on "LOST WEEKEND" & you can hear that Jazzmaster sound clear as a bell. This guitar didn't catch on for Jazz perhaps due to fashion, 'cuz when you hear Lanham you hear a great Jazz tone. (he's on KZread!)

Lovely. I LOVE Elvis.

jazzmaster is my dream!

nice guy elvis always liked him !

Great little history lesson that.

I used to play In BVB and I Now Play Jazzmasters

such an awsome colour

brilliant!!!

Good Interview about a not much used guitar anymore.But when you see Elvis C. live.He gets a great crunchy Rock and Roll sound on his early catalog and his usual jams on "watching the detectives" show cases this guitars versatility in sounds.Now I have to go into a music store and play one.

@SoundStation98

8 жыл бұрын

+NightFly54 These guitars are incredibly popular now, they weren't popular at all back in the day.

Your next assignment: Go back and listen to Television for the millionth time.

Not a huge EC fan, but he comes off as quite a likeable fellow here!

The singer from cinema staff uses this jazzmaster love the finish

I want this guitar

He's not angry any more.

@cosmicdrifter287

8 жыл бұрын

+Rex Mundi no,he"s furious!

@matthewheinecke2621

4 жыл бұрын

It's hard to be angry with a jazzmaster in your hands.

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

Update- Listen to his latest offering. He's baaaaack!

I grew up in Hounslow....and although there may have been others I can only remember one guitar shop called The Band Centre on Bell Road run by the bass player from a band called Jeep... I wonder whether Elvis bought his first Jazzmaster there....???

love the walnut

Yeah I got a red one with matching headstalk the person who sold it to me put new pickups and mustang bridge it plays great!

Elvis!

The Jazzmaster is one of the best guitars ever made , shame it didn't get the appropriate amount of appreciation they deserves.

@skierpage

3 жыл бұрын

True. Fender already had two iconic guitars (Telecaster and Stratocaster), it was competing with itself with the Jazzmaster and Jaguar.

Wow E.C's from Hounslow, West London!!!

Liked it when he broke into "Watching The Detectives". I wish he would just sit there as he is, no band just him and play all the early classic Elvis Costello songs. Would be great.

Great video, although Elvis wasn't a lead player, he had some of the most interesting tones for a rhythm guitarist.

my hero

The Costello signature is the best sounding guitar I own, I can get strat and tele sounds all the way too Les Paul sounds with the jazz circuit. Just bout a used Crafted in Japan model, sounds great too. I'd recommend replacing the bridge with one from a mustang or jaguar.

Yes he did :)

Joe Messina who was a pretty nifty jazz player used a tele with a jazzmaster neck.

@777system777 They're not Strat pickups they are from Teisco. He put them an all his Jazzmasters. He mainly uses his UltraCure

Oops Correction to comment below! "5ive Gears" is gone. Search "Can't stand up for falling down" or just "Elvis Costello Get Happy"

Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) played the Jazzmaster quite a lot.

Genius.

Kurt had a tele, i think it was sunburst but he painted it light blue and scratched things into the new paint job. google it - few photos on google images of him playing it i think

Biggest surprise to me with this interview: Elvis participated in a jam session with Jerry Garcia?!? Two folks I would not think might be hanging out socially.

@billstriejewske7258

4 жыл бұрын

Elvis has long been into the Dead. Participated in a tribute album for the rainforests in late 80's early 90's.

@elwrongo

3 жыл бұрын

hard to imagine the connection isn't it?

@slarbiter

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just trying to imagine Jerry with a jazzmaster. Something I'd like to see/hear

@rattyeely

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I wasn't surprised, they both love country and folk and Elvis also played with Dylan...honestly Costello has been able to collaborate and play with with so many famous musicians at this point it's insane

@jamesakin

2 жыл бұрын

Elvis claims he can be seen in a photo on the Europe '72 jacket, huddling with fellow fans at the mud-encrusted Bickersham Festival show. He says friends gave him grief for going to see that hippie band, but he loved the show. Seek out Elvis's covers of Ship of Fools. There's a studio version on the Deadicated save-the-rainforest CD, and a great live version by Elvis with Steve Nieve (at the Fillmore in SF in 1996) on the Costello & Nieve box set. In the Fillmore set, Elvis announces that he'd last played the tune the day of Garcia's death.

Gosh Roogalator, I used to go see them almost every week it seemed back in the day. They were good, but they never seemed to catch the wave

@aintnoluckitsskillz It's totally and obviously a reggae rhythm, I've even read an interview with costello, where he proudly and happily acknowledges it...........

I'm 14, and I know the jazzmaster only because Elvis played one :D

It was played on his 65 Jag with humbuckers. Clearly, the Teen Spirit clean tone is a humbucker. Kurt's Tele didn't have a humbucker at that time.

I know people talk trash about the japan jazzmaster but thier pretty awesome

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

Elitist snobs talk trash about anything that isn't $5k or more. Too bad they are missing out on the best. Biggest snob points- "tonewood", MI China/Indonesia/Mexico/U.S., maple vs rosewood, ect. 90% of people listening couldn't pick an Epi from a Gibby in a blind listen test.

Genius

The name Declan Patrick Mcmanus kind of gives the game away a bit ;)

@weaselsuit The Jazzmaster pickups are very mellow and warm sounding. The neck pickup on it's own is particularly 'woody' (if that makes sense) and there's really no other guitar that sounds like a Jazzmaster played through a clean tube amp with just the neck pickup on. The in between sound (both pickups on) creates a beautiful jangly, 'airy' sound which works with with overdrive (depending on what gear you're using, obviously).

I much preferred my Jaguar - same fabulous, feline shape, but a more manageable (shorter) neck length. p.s. the most impressive name Elvis drops is the legendary Garnet Mimms.

I must have one.

Yep, it was painted with blue house paint, and had a heart scratched out of the paint.

I'll agree with the others that the "My Aim Is True" album is a great place to start. But if you like musicianship & groove, 1980's "Get Happy!!" was 100% great songwriting with an homage to 1960s Soul & RnB. (Booker T, Ray Charles, Stax, Motown.) Yet it still rocks. And that Jazzmaster tone is very clear. The bass lines are astounding too. Try searching "5ive Gears In Reverse" on youtube.

@marshwetland3808

10 ай бұрын

GH my absolute fave. I think I played it over and over for a year straight after I got home each day, in my final year of high school. Good way to burn off the pain of 'orrible high school

Ha, ive got a 51 Gibson LG-0 that had work done by Valdez in the 70's i guess you learn somthing every day

Chet Atkins Gretsch and Les Paul Gibson guitars were signature as well

I believe it was called a Jazzmaster because the body was cut so it was comfortable to play sitting down.

I just had to learn that little "Wash up" riff..

nice

yup

he's from Birkenhead, he's my great grandmothers cousin

so how did he get the guitar he's holding?

the dog said, "thought this was buddy holly with a 5-o'clock shadow." ~ tenderbastard

C.W. Stoneking plays a Jazzmaster on all the tracks of his new Album Gon' Boogaloo

@sindresollie Actually, he said it was 66 but it was 65, 66 has different necks

everyone has their tricks, on strats i always have to take the volume knob off because im always turning it down. i end with cuts on my hand from the naked pot but atleast ive still got sound.

kurt had played jags not jazzmastera he also played mustangs teles and strats some univoxs and 1 epiphone guitar

Brinsley Schwarz played a Jazzmaster, too.

J.Mascis - made a hell of a racket on a jazz master .

who cares what it says or looks like buy if you like it i play a squier classic vibe and changed some stuff but i play it live aloot and love it

@treetopjones737

3 жыл бұрын

They're licensed to make Fender copies. Decent guitars for a lower price.

OH MY GOD my band has the exact same issue XD

I was waiting for him to mention Robert Smith

its subtle. he's also been living in the us so long it has faded somewhat

@Hugoow16 you don't like signature models?

I've owned a '63 Jaguar and I've just now ordered a reissue Jag (I sold this '63 in my twenties). I know the scale is different, but how do the stock Jazzmaster pickups sound as opposed to the stock Jag pickups?

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

Jags are much "twangier". JM are warmer/slightly beefier for lack of a better description. Jags are almost too bright. So....you'll need to buy both.

By the way, what song is this playing?

Somebody wrote a book on Fenders in the mid to late 1970s and my brother had it. Initially, the Jazzmaster was supposed to be something "better" than a Strat. At least according to the author. A buddy of mine had one. Costello is right about the tailpiece, it's connected to the vibro arm and was pretty messed up. If you dare used the arm during a gig, you'd be out of tune straight away. They were played by surf guitarists, some Motown guys, Hendrix had one during his soul circuit days. The sounds on them were, in my mind, similar to a Gretsch semi-hollow body, but that's just me. The book said that they were in production in to the 1970s. Being around at that time, in my area, nobody ever stocked them. It wasn't until Costello played them that the Jazzmaster had a "player" to be associated with them. They became an item after that. Nice to see them in production again.

@junglajuan

6 жыл бұрын

Good story dude

@Notecrusher

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Verlaine wasn't enough to put it on the map???? I don't know anything about what gear he used, maybe he was more associated w/ another guitar.

Never did dig too much on Costello, maybe I'll take another listen. Anyone have any suggestions on where to start?

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

Give his music a listen as a cross section of albums. He's done virtually every style as of the 2020's.

@rattyeely

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly listen to his first album, decide if you like his punk songs or his ballads more, and then use that to determine which albums to listen to next

Buy this guitar, then install the Mastery Bridge - Enjoy! Amazing combo.

@popsfereal3192

4 жыл бұрын

If you know what you're doing, no need for a Mastery. Or if you like the lady like 9's on your guitar, you'll need a Mastery.

Who told you that? Kurt never played a Tele until close to the date he died, when he said it was his new favorite guitar.

Elvis is mistaken about his "My Aim Is True" jazznmaster being refinished to his current silverburst Jazzmaster

Cobain played a Jazzmaster too.

Elvis and Jerry Garcia late night jam session?

And Steve's music... at least the one in Ottawa

@bababscardi. It's watching the detectives. Also Robert smith from the cure played a jazzmaster especially during the pornography album as well as a hard to find fender vI six string bass

Elvis I'm twelve I play a jaguar because I saw you playing a headmaster on your Allison record my favourite song by you is watching the detective

Joe Pass played a Jazzmaster in the early '60s.

It can't be the only reason. Archtop guitar produces uncontrollable feedback at high volume as well.

Sure seems like a regular guy...refreshingly so....he walked past me through a crowd at the uptown bar in mpls in the the early eighties..gave him a nod, thumbs up..something like that...his bodyguard didn't seem to appreciate it...I guess I can't blame him...

@charlesdoherty9879

4 жыл бұрын

raggidedg , he’s a smashing guy

Never bettered that first long player , great playing all round and a feel he never captured again sadly. Great songs though !

Besides, if Elvis Costello says it, IT MUST BE TRUE.