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"It’s something that looked and felt like a Fender but was something I could afford at that point": Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee Ochoa says that her Fender signature model is actually based on a Fender copy

Laura Lee Ochoa.

Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee Ochoa has revealed that the signature model that Fender designed for her this year was modelled on a knock-off Fender Jazz that she had customised herself.

In a new interview with Guitar World, Ochoa explained how this came about. “When I started playing bass, I wanted a Fender, because that’s the cool brand,” she said. “It was the brand I always sort of idolised as somebody who wanted to be in a band but was never in a band.

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