Nothing Beats A Telecaster

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Long Live THe Telecaster disagree? you can kiss my fender loving ass
 
I'd have to disagree...



I beat the hell out of mine all the time. And it keeps coming back for more.
 
I love my '71. But then again I love my '98 Strat. And of course the '56 National has a great voice and plays like butta. Speaking of Tele's, I recently picked up (of all things) a Shecter that was cut like a Tele but had a carved quilted top much like a PRS loaded with Duncan humbuckers with the coil tap. This thing is the tone MACHINE. I dig it.
 
I have one of the highway 1 Teles that I'm very happy with. I keep 1 telecaster on staff at all times because it has that one sound that you just can't get from anything else.

H2H
 
I LOVE my stratocaster to death. I really want to love telecasters, but every time I try one out it just feels like I ought to be building a deck out of it. I need my arm and tummy cuts.

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I agree, they're not comfortable to play. I have very rarely used one in a show, maybe 2 times in my whole life.

H2H
 
I played the '71 on stage exclusively 3 and 4 nights a week for years. I guess you can get used to anything.
 
i love mine haven't had it a week pic is included in the link, got it last wed already has a hipshot Will Ray Hellabender and graph tech saddles ,it's at the shop awaiting a setup as we speak i asked in this link but no responses yet maybe ya'll good people can help me ID it ...had a mexi once before and got rid of it (stupid thing to do) won't happen twice i used mine almost exclusively saturday nite at a gig i started out a total gibson man, still am,but i love my tele and i have swung more to the Fender side .... :D


https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=132400
 
i have two, a 72 custom reissue and a stock one i bought a few years ago. the stock one gets all the page sounds i could want the custom reissue sounds like keith reincarnated

i can't imagine not having my telecasters
 
72 Tele Custom here, an original by the way. I have owned them all and sold them all because when I want to sound like me, its the only thing that works.
 
I have had a couple of teles and now have 2 strats, the only thing that stops me getting another tele is I have a total of 5 guitars and one bass and only one pair of hands and having practically retired can't justify the expense, but you never know........

As Waylon Jennings once said in a "Guitar Player" interview " a Tele is the only guitar you can fight your way out of a bar room brawl swinging it like a club and still be in tune afterwards".
 
Teles rule. Here's why:

I have a 2003 American Standard, Olympic white with white pick guard. Here's why it's the best guitar I've ever owned:

• It cost $829, with case. Not bad for made-in-California USA quality. Compare it to ANYTHING made in America for the same price.

• It has an actual painted gloss finish, not "faded," or some other excuse for a finish Gibson uses to match Fender's prices.

• The neck is satiny smoooooooth like butter, with rolled fretboard edges. It fits like a glove.
• The fretboard has an actual radius!

• I can get bloopy jazz tones on the neck pickup with the treble rolled off. I can get searing lead sounds in the bridge position with the treble on 10. I can get pseudo-Stevie Texas blues tones. I can get full-on country twang-banger tones. I can get clean, bright, clear, transparent, ringing,distinct, crystalline chiming tones all day long, and I can get a little nasty just like Keef Riffhard by adding some gain. This is, without a doubt, the most versatile guitar in the world.

• It was the first real commercially-available solidbody electric in the world. Dig the heritage.

• Bruce Springsteen. Roy Buchanan. Steve Cropper. Bob Dylan. Muddy Waters. Red Volkaert.
James Burton. You're in good company.

• Two pickups are enough for anyone. Hell, the original Esquires only had one.

• Maple neck and fretboard = yummy blonde birdseye eye candy.

• Five words: simplicity, reliability, versatility, repairability, playability.

• Even ten years of CBS mismanagement couldn't bring the little ol' Tele down. It's a scrapper!
 
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