Why have Fender not made a Jeff Buckley Signature yet?

[Thejackie]

But if I did have one…it would look like this. No hot stack changed though.

 

[Thejackie]

I must also add, anybody that says they are **** haven’t played one and lived with one. In my opinion of course. Cheers Jackie

 

[JBryantfan]

This 83 of mine will hold it's own in any company.... don't believe the bs about them....

they are Teles like any other Fender is....

i have one too, don't know why the hate towards them, they feel weighty, and strong to me.
Great sound too, though I don't know what kind of pickups are in it. I posted pictures of it on
this site before.

 

[CX Hunter]

Just saw this thread. Had to laugh. Jeff and I used to play at Cafe Sine and he would come to my gigs and sit in with me. Jeff would have been horrified at the idea of a signature Jeff Buckley guitar. He hated all that stuff. He was not really into celebrity culture. Back when a bunch of guys, Jimmy Page and others as famous or more said that he was their absolute favorite vocalist and would, if they had to, only have one album on a desert island it would be his, he said "Oh great, nothing like being fawned over by aging rock stars". Or words to that effect. We used to hang at my apartment on the Lower East Side and trade Dobro licks. And he was really good.

 

[tiktok]

I can think of some possible reasons:

- He passed 22 years ago
- Not as big a name as someone like Cobain
- They already did a Jim Campilongo top loader, how different was Buckley's?

None of them seem to be great reasons but maybe they add up to enough? It'd be interesting to be a fly on the wall in meetings where the decide this stuff... I'd have to imagine they're biased towards signature guitars of living players who can do marketing with them.

While his guitar was a top loader, it was a six-saddle top loader that no-one has ever enthused over. A buddy of mine had a sunburst model that he lent me in the mid 80's and my recollection was that saddles were prone to sideways movement under heavy strumming with the then-standard light strings.