When Kurt Cobain hit the stage, it was very
often with a Mustang® guitar an enigmatic
anti-hero figure with an esoteric anti-hero
instrument. It’s with great pride then that
Fender introduces the Kurt Cobain Mustang,
which evokes the man, the band, the sound
and the times, and gives an authentically
crafted nod to one of the most unlikely guitars
to ever find itself at the center of a musical
maelstrom.
See for yourself go back and watch the
famous 1991 video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit,"
and there he is and there it is slung over his
shoulder. Or think back to when you saw them
on the ’93-’94 In Utero tour, when he seldom
went onstage with anything but a Mustang.
Quite often and especially later on, Mustangs
were a big part of what Kurt Cobain was all
about, musically.
Inspired by his arsenal of modded guitars, the
new Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang takes you
back there, with highly distinctive features
including the classic 24" Mustang scale length,
an angled single-coil Mustang neck pickup and
ferocious Seymour Duncan® JB humbucking
bridge pickup mounted directly to the body, dual
on-off/phase in-out switches for each pickup, a
polyester-finished alder body and an Adjusto-
Matic bridge with dynamic vibrato tailpiece.
Available in Fiesta Red, Sonic Blue and Dark
Lake Placid Blue with stripe, and in right- and
left-handed models.
