How did each of you discover Fender Jaguars and/or Jazzmasters?
KS: I’ve had a Japanese one since ’82. JM: Well, Slimy Bob ripped me off–Slimy Bob’s Guitar Ripoff Shop. He was just this weird guy. He had a gun and mace in his store and he’d mace his employees for fun. Just start laughing. You could tell all his stuff was stolen. He’d have these ads that were all fake, like “Strat: $400.” The bait and switch thing. So i painted this house and got about $500, and I went down there. I wanted to buy a Strat. I just wanted it to write songs on; I was still playing drums at the time. And of course Slimy Bob didn’t have and kind of decent Strat for under $500. But he had a jaguar for $200 and a Jazzmaster for $300. The Jazzmaster has a beat-up neck, which I liked. It had no finish on it. And it had Grover tuning pegs, which I always admired from Peter Frampton and Humble Pie records. So I spent the extra hundred and bought the Jazzmaster. And it’s the one I still play–my first guitar. Is it still your main guitar? JM: Live, yeah. And on record, I use it
