Tremolo in a Jazzmaster Thinline?! Black Pumas' Adrian Quesada Fender Custom Shop Creation

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The bandleader details the challenge he put forth when collaborating with Fender's top builders.
In just seven years since meeting based on a recommendation, Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada formed the Black Pumas, released two albums, and have already been nominated for seven Grammys. However, this fruitful friendship was almost never developed.
Quesada was enrolled at the University of Texas but flunking out due to his dedication to guitar over textbooks. His parents gave him a proposition: Either stay home in Laredo, or return to Austin without a guitar in hand to focus on studying. He went with option B and headed back for school in Austin-or so his parents thought. Quesada took his remaining book money (about $200) and headed to Ray Hennig’s Heart of Texas, where he snagged a Squier Telecaster Thinline. His parents eventually figured out the switcheroo, but Quesada was determined and hasn’t looked back. (Side note: The family obviously sees and supports his musical talents, and attended Black Pumas’ Ryman show the night before the filming of this Rig Rundown.)
That matador move pulled off by Quesada allowed him to become a longtime fixture in the Austin music scene with bands Brownout, Ocote Soul Sound, Spanish Gold, Echocentrics, and Grupo Fantasma (with whom he played for over 15 years, earning a 2011 Grammy for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album). He started to explore new ideas that didn’t fit the mold for Grupo, and needed someone to narrate his musical vistas. A friend recommended he link up with Austin newcomer Eric Burton, who traded his busking spot on the Santa Monica pier for the bright lights of Sixth Street. The duo met up, and as the results prove, the rest is history.
Before the Black Pumas’ second headlining show at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, bandleader Adrian Quesada, bassist Brendan Bond, and band tech Bryan Wilkinson invited PG’s Chris Kies into the hallowed grounds for a chill conversation about their tonal tools. During our time with the Black Pumas, we learned about Quesada’s love for tremolo (he even included it as a secret weapon in a semi-hollow Jazzmaster), Bond’s fateful trip to the Wilco Loft in Chicago, and why a ’59 ES-125 is Wilkinson’s perfect pairing with Burton’s expressive and emotive voice.
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[@JasonTMays]

Fender needs to do a production run of that Jazzmaster!

[@darwinsaye]

There’s a guitar that was demonstrated at some prototype guitar show, and it had a built in panning tremolo that works by alternating the neck and bridge pickup volume, so it goes from bass on one pulse to treble on the next pulse, and it sounds like the harmonic tremolo on old Fender Brownface amps.

[@timnotbrianmay]

About all of these videos: the descriptions and explanations are great, but it really, and I mean REALLY would be nice to hear everything you're showing and talking about!... Just a thought...

[@andrewmccombs7347]

Onboard Miku circuit!!! Get it done!!!

[@reijerlincoln]

Everything DOES sound better with tremolo!

[@shiftd_1114]

Still a Fender- lol