The project was entrusted to and executed by Trevor Healy of Healy Guitars out of Easthampton, Massachusetts.
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This guitar features a modern copy of a Phantom body, a Fender Deluxe Series Telecaster maple neck and fretboard (with jumbo frets), and a Mastery JM-style bridge. He could never get along with them onstage, so he’s cobbled together various parts and made his own dream machine. But during our November 2021 chat at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, Mascis mentioned that the ’60s Vox Phantom was his favorite silhouette. In 2021, he broke his offset mold, releasing a signature Fender Telecaster based on a beloved 1958 Tele that has long been his go-to instrument for tracking solos. J Mascis has been linked to the Jazzmaster for decades. We also witness two firsts for J: a Phantom-Tele-Jazzmaster Frankenstein and a Floyd Rose-equipped guitar.
All along the way, their soft-spoken shredder has ascended as a guitar-hero among musical outcasts.īefore Dinosaur Jr.’s sold-out show at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, Mascis reconnected with PG’s Chris Kies to talk Teles (yes, you read that right he’s touring with more Telecasters than ever), including the development of his new signature T that’s based on his studio-perfect ’58 model. in 1991), this consummate power trio have remained popular in the American underground by continually selling out theaters, splashing into the Billboard 200 (climbing even higher in the Independent and Rock charts), and headlining alternative-music festivals. While never reaching the mainstream stratosphere like some of their contemporaries (including Nirvana, who opened for Dino Jr. This core group has released eight studio albums of dynamically rich rock that teeters between a runaway locomotive fueled on feedback and buzzing riffs, and hooky, melodic, pop-soaked nimble rhythms that carry more than they crush.
Both left Dinosaur Jr., and then rejoined in 2005. Fellow volume-dealing stalwarts Emmett Jefferson Murphy III (drums)-better known as “Murph”-and Lou Barlow (bass/vocals) helped J form the band in 1984 after their first group, Deep Wound, dissolved.