
Jason Momoa is known for his onscreen roles, but he’s no longer too prolonged prior to now been on camera discussing his love of Fender Nocasters, as section of the guitar huge’s My First Fender sequence.
In a instant clip over on Fender’s Instagram, Momoa takes time out from a discuss over with to Fender’s Corona manufacturing unit to swiftly discuss his first electrical, a Nocaster, which he says he picked up around 15 years prior to now.
“I surely bought it at Guitar Heart in Hollywood,” Momoa finds. “I used to be potentially 26 when I bought it. It used to be surely my second guitar I ever had. I had a resonator and my first electrical used to be a Nocaster.
“And it is terribly dear to my heart: so dear, that as soon as I directed my first film Motorway To Paloma, I gave my first guitar to my composer, who’s now one of my most effective chums and we unexcited gain all of my movies and all the pieces collectively. He composes on them – and he used to be no longer a Fender fan. And I acknowledged, ‘It will be valuable to form this…’ I liked the neck and now he loves it. It’s his accepted guitar, and he’s been taking part in in a band for 20 years. So I transformed them over to to the Nocaster.”
Momoa is probably going relating to (one of) his chums Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Cramped, each of whom performed guitar (and assorted devices) in the Canadian band Cease Construct Dispute Mediate, ahead of they modified into their fingers to composing film song.
The Aquaman and Recreation Of Thrones huge title has a right passion for guitars and basses. He’s beforehand had Fender Customized Store Grasp Builder Vincent Van Trigt gain him each a whole reproduction of Buddy Guy’s “holy grail” polka dot Fender Stratocaster and a custom Fender Precision Bass.
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Matt is a freelance journalist who has spent the closing decade interviewing musicians for the likes of Full Guitar, Guitarist, Guitar World, MusicRadar, NME.com, DJ Magazine and Digital Sound. In 2020, he launched CreativeMoney.co.uk, which targets to allotment the tips that gain artistic life more sustainable. He performs guitar, but must no longer be allowed stop to your extend pedals.