Singer-songwriter James Bay couldn’t be happier with his new guitar. Four years in the making, the Fender Pink Lemonade Mustang is a genuine one-of-a-kind. He talks about the guitar’s design and about this forthcoming third album, Leap.
How did the project come about, James?
I’d finished writing my song, which I remember really nailing the sound for through a Fender Princeton and a guitar with P90s. I thought - in my indie rock, early-Kings Of Leon-inspired state - that the Mustang is one of the Fender guitars that really personified that sonic and aesthetic. I’d found a Fender Cyclone years before that I didn’t buy - it was the only Mustang I’d seen at the time with P-90s. So I said, ‘What I’d love to do, Mr. Fender, is recreate the Cyclone, tweak a few things, put P-90s and a pinkish colour, and call it the Fender Pink Lemonade.’
