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  • telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

    if i put hot rails in the bridge position, will it the crunch, sustain, power to play metallica-type music.

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    Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

    Originally posted by nkjmartin
    if i put hot rails in the bridge position, will it the crunch, sustain, power to play metallica-type music.
    yeah why not!

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    • #3
      Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

      If you have a high gain amp, yeah.

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      • #4
        Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

        the guitarist of thursday (no metal i know) play this combo and like it. he said that it is something between the SG and the LP (both with JB) which he plays too...
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        • #5
          Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

          Telecasters are the most versatile instruments in the world. I'm not a huge fan of them and I personally have a love/hate relationship with mine, but would you like to guess which guitar I take to EVERY show? They'll play anything from ABBA to ZZ Top, and sound good doing it.
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          • #6
            Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

            One of Poison the Well's guitarists plays Teles with Hot Rails, and they're heavier than most metal bands you hear lately..
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            • #7
              Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

              Originally posted by Empty Pockets
              One of Poison the Well's guitarists plays Teles with Hot Rails, and they're heavier than most metal bands you hear lately..
              Very good point. Botchla still get´s me every time I hear it

              When yopu consider the Tele´s history, it´s actually kind of predestined for Rock (with other pickups, although some stock Tele bridges can make a few humbuckers cringe in fear as well).

              Back then, Country was what metal is today: the hardest, heaviest stuff with a general audience
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              • #8
                Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                Check out Shihad's 1st and 2nd albums - one of the guitarists uses a stock tele and he absolutely rips on the heavy riffs...
                'Without music life would be a mistake'.

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                • #9
                  Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                  Tom Morello uses a stock Tele for his Dropped D stuff, including RATM's heavier songs like "Killing In the Name" and "Born of a Broken Man".
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                  • #10
                    Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                    I use my tele completely stock and get great metal/rock sounds. The pickups cut through the band and esp. when using a higher gain amp it allows the notes to articulate clearly. It is THE perfect guitar and versatile as hell!

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                    • #11
                      Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                      doesn't john 5 use one in his tele's?

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                      • #12
                        Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                        The tele is a tone menace, straight from the bowels of hades… with the right pickups in it. I have the Hot Rails in the bridge & it rips. From fusion to black metal, this combo will oblige to deliver.

                        Yes, the amp matters too…
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                        • #13
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                          The hotrails is just an awesome pickup period. I think one in a tele would sound great. And like mentioned above, bands like Thursday and Poision the Well have done it, so why not.
                          -Tom

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                          • #14
                            Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                            Originally posted by Empty Pockets
                            One of Poison the Well's guitarists plays Teles with Hot Rails, and they're heavier than most metal bands you hear lately..
                            hehe the same i wrote in the crosspost ....
                            Poison the Well - Opposite of December is that great.
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                            • #15
                              Re: telecaster, a heavy metal guitar?

                              I have EMG pups in my tele. It plays every style...I'm not kidding!! I used it for country style stuff when jamming with some friends and it really delivered. I play mostly metal, though, and it is quite good there too.

                              I think I might change the pups to QP's though.

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