“It’s essentially based off of a knockoff Fender!” Khruangbin’s Laura Lee Ochoa just got a signature Fender based on the first bass she ever bought – but it was a Jazz Bass copy

Khruangbin's Laura Lee with her Fender signature bass.

For Khruangbin’s Laura Lee Ochoa, owning a Fender bass guitar had always felt aspirational. “When I started playing bass, I wanted a Fender, because that’s the cool brand,” she says in the new issue of Guitar World.

“It was the brand I always sort of idolized as somebody who wanted to be in a band but was never in a band.” However, when it came to buying her first bass, Ochoa opted for something a bit more budget-friendly, and it's an instrument that she still uses to this very day.