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Lot Essay
Made for me by Dennis Galuszka at the Fender Custom Shop. I wanted something that had the body and neck of a Jazzmaster with the wiring of a Jaguar. I added the Gretsch pickups later.
JOHNNY MARR, MARR’S GUITARS, 2023
Johnny Marr was invited to join American indie rock band Modest Mouse by frontman Isaac Brock in 2005. It was on their first night jamming together in Portland, Oregon, that Marr had what he describes as a life-changing moment when he picked up Brock’s 1965 Fender Jaguar. In conversation with Martin Kelly for Marr’s Guitars, Marr recalled: Within a moment of playing that Jaguar, I'd recognized that something big was going on for me and it wasn't just happenstance… It was like, where have you been all my life? That moment kicked off a new phase in my life. In his 2016 autobiography Set The Boy Free, Marr explained: I had found a guitar that not only suited me perfectly but did the job of several guitars, and which was also taking me into new territory, in much the same way as the Rickenbacker had done in The Smiths. I became obsessed with Jaguars and also Jazzmasters, and I used them exclusively on the [Modest Mouse] album. Inspired by his newfound love for Jaguars and Jazzmasters, Marr commissioned Master Builder Dennis Galuszka at the Fender Custom Shop to build him a Jazzmaster with the wiring of a Jaguar, which he refers to as a “Jagmaster”. When the band decamped to Mississippi’s Sweet Tea Studio in summer 2006 to record the album that they had been working on since Marr had first arrived in Portland, he found that the guitar’s original P90 pickups sounded too new and replaced them with Gretsch Filter'Trons. Marr told us: For me, that guitar epitomises the Portland scene that I found myself in with Modest Mouse in 2005-2010. Offset, pimped out. The first thing I did on that guitar was a song called ‘People as Places as People’ by Modest Mouse and it’s a really good riff, a killer riff. The custom ‘Jagmaster’ can also be heard on the tracks ‘Fire It Up’ and ‘Missed The Boat’. The finished album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank debuted at number one on the US Billboard charts, giving Marr his first number one record in America. [It] felt like a victory for alternative music, he told Kelly. Marr used the ‘Jagmaster’ for live performances of ‘People as Places as People’ on the first few legs of the band’s mammoth We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Tour, from 5 November 2006 to 16 May 2007.
JOHNNY MARR, MARR’S GUITARS, 2023
Johnny Marr was invited to join American indie rock band Modest Mouse by frontman Isaac Brock in 2005. It was on their first night jamming together in Portland, Oregon, that Marr had what he describes as a life-changing moment when he picked up Brock’s 1965 Fender Jaguar. In conversation with Martin Kelly for Marr’s Guitars, Marr recalled: Within a moment of playing that Jaguar, I'd recognized that something big was going on for me and it wasn't just happenstance… It was like, where have you been all my life? That moment kicked off a new phase in my life. In his 2016 autobiography Set The Boy Free, Marr explained: I had found a guitar that not only suited me perfectly but did the job of several guitars, and which was also taking me into new territory, in much the same way as the Rickenbacker had done in The Smiths. I became obsessed with Jaguars and also Jazzmasters, and I used them exclusively on the [Modest Mouse] album. Inspired by his newfound love for Jaguars and Jazzmasters, Marr commissioned Master Builder Dennis Galuszka at the Fender Custom Shop to build him a Jazzmaster with the wiring of a Jaguar, which he refers to as a “Jagmaster”. When the band decamped to Mississippi’s Sweet Tea Studio in summer 2006 to record the album that they had been working on since Marr had first arrived in Portland, he found that the guitar’s original P90 pickups sounded too new and replaced them with Gretsch Filter'Trons. Marr told us: For me, that guitar epitomises the Portland scene that I found myself in with Modest Mouse in 2005-2010. Offset, pimped out. The first thing I did on that guitar was a song called ‘People as Places as People’ by Modest Mouse and it’s a really good riff, a killer riff. The custom ‘Jagmaster’ can also be heard on the tracks ‘Fire It Up’ and ‘Missed The Boat’. The finished album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank debuted at number one on the US Billboard charts, giving Marr his first number one record in America. [It] felt like a victory for alternative music, he told Kelly. Marr used the ‘Jagmaster’ for live performances of ‘People as Places as People’ on the first few legs of the band’s mammoth We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Tour, from 5 November 2006 to 16 May 2007.