Fender || Don 'Nuge' Nguyen on Creativity and Love for the Bass

“Is it better to burn out or fade away?”

There’s one sure thing about pro skater Don 'Nuge' Nguyen—he goes hard. If you don’t already know what we’re talking about, check the below video to watch him bomb a hill and skate with a blatant disregard to personal safety. Hailing originally from Oklahoma City, Baker team member and Arctic band member Nuge was a natural inclusion for the Fender Deluxe series.

Atiba Jefferson shot Nuge cruising around LA in his vintage Trans Am, talking about a love that doesn’t include skating, designing for his company Volume 4 or pho (he’s got a bowl of the stuff tattooed on his arm)—bass guitar. Life without bass for Nuge is like TV without colour, and anyone who rips as hard on bass as they do on concrete deserves to have the best tools to do so. So, Fender paired him with a guitar that made sense; the Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass. It’s a double-cutaway 4-string electric bass with two vintage noiseless jazz bass pickups in the middle and bridge positions. And it sounds pretty damn nice.

Sound appealing? Check out Fender right here to get your mitts on one.