Jimi Hendrix is well known for being a Fender Stratocaster player but he also played a fender Duo Sonic while touring with the Isley Brothers. But wait, aren't we talking about Fender Mustangs here? Or is it Mustang Fenders??
Colors
The Mustang has been produced in the following colors:
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- Sunburst
- Candy Apple Red
- Sonic Blue
- Vintage White
- Blonde
- Black
- Olympic White
- Daphne Blue
- Fiesta Red
- Lake Placid Blue
- Dakota Red
- Surf Green
- Competition Red
Mustang players
Some noted players of the Fender Mustang are:
- Mark Arm (Mudhoney)
- Blixa Bargeld (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten)
- Adrian Belew (He actually used a custom made Stratocaster/Mustang combined body shaped guitar - see the album Twang Bar King- and now uses custom shop Strats and Parker guitars.)
- David Berman (Silver Jews)
- William Bernhard (Sky Cries Mary)
- Frank Black
- Rob Buck (10,000 Maniacs)
- Eric Burdon
- David Byrne
- Kurt Cobain, of Nirvana
- Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins, abandoned it once comparison between Cobain and himself were drawn.
- Graham Coxon (Blur)
- Jason Falkner
- James Frost of The Automatic
- John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Matthew Good (as evidenced in the video to 'Everything Is Automatic')
- Blaine Harrison, Will Rees - The Mystery Jets
- PJ Harvey
- Ryan Jarman (The Cribs)
- Kelly Jones (Stereophonics)
- Addison Kane
- Brad Laner (Medicine)
- Yuri Landman
- Trevor Lissauer (The Glass Plastiks)
- Yoshiaki Manabe of Japanese rock group The Pillows
- John McLaughlin
- Moe
- Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) Plays a three pickup version, similar to the stratocaster. It has a 3-way pickup selector
- Buzz Osborne (The Melvins)
- Liz Phair (she actually plays a Duo-Sonic and a Musicmaster)
- Elvis Presley
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In
- Todd Rundgren
- Martha Schwendener (Bowery Electric)
- Shakira
- Juanita Stein (Waikiki/Howling Bells)
- John Thoman (of Chris Cacavas' Junkyard Love)
- John Cacavas (formerly of Quorum)
- Cage Von Dozier (Stone Nova, The AquaFaggots)
- Steve Turner (Mudhoney)
- Gene Ween (Ween)
- Johnny Winter (up through "The Progressive Blues Experiment")
- Bill Wyman
- Simon Taylor-Davis (Klaxons)
- Shamus (Sound Salvation)
- Chino Moreno (Deftones)
- Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade)
- Olivier Alary (Ensemble)
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