A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

[Diego]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

The great thing about Teles is that you can use tiny amounts of gain and still sound really aggressive.
That doesn't quite happen with an LP or a Strat.

A Tele is not the only guitar I'd like to have, but if I had to, I could live with those two single coils.

[Looselectron]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Recently I assembled a Tele from cheap parts I collected (probably made in the people's republic but what isn't these days?) Total budget $160 so far for my first tele.

The purpose of the project was to learn about building guitars; but also to have a simple, durable beater to thrash, strum and make poses.

Right away I found myself playing everything I normally play which was "everything but country," but thanks to that awkward bridge now I can play country licks, too!

I still love my G&L Legacy and Vox Virage custom, and I miss my Ibanez George Benson. Yet I feel like a properly equipped tele could make them all slightly redundant.

It's the foolproof simplicity of the guitar that keeps me PLAYING, instead of worrying about pickup settings or bridge adjustments. Maybe it's the limitations of a telecaster that make it so pure.

[Seraphial]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I bang my wrist on the horn

You should consider lubricant then.

[Jacew]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I agree 100% that they can be "heavy" but you're not getting the Slipknot tone with a twangbanger. or an SSL-1

Surely, recreating others heavy tone is entirely different thing for just dialing heaviest you can come up with.

[Cobra1957]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need



This can be true but do you know a carpenter that only has one hammer?

[GuitarStv]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Well yeah, but that's no standard tele or a vintage one like the original post. Any guitar can sound heavy if you hack wood out of it, and put certain pickups in it and a different bridge that can intonate better, a 12" radius and big frets.

I would argue that it IS true of a Stratocaster, that it can "do anything" since they come standard with a tremolo, and you don't need to hack wood out to put humbuckers, just a new pickguard.

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Tom Morello used a stock 1982 Fender telecaster. No different bridge, no different pickups, no hacking wood out of it.

"This is my main drop D tuning guitar for my entire career. Inexpensive, made in the USA Telecaster. I traded my roommate (he was in a band called Liquid Jesus). He needed a Marshall head and I needed a guitar that I could tune down, play grunge-worthy heavy riffs with. And so the exchange was made, and this is in a song with all the Rage [Against The Machine], Audioslave, Street Sweeper [Social Club], The Nightwatchman songs that are in drop D tuning. Killing in the Name, Freedom, Testify, all those that are in drop D, played and written with the band on this."

[Jacew]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

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This can be true but do you know a carpenter that only has one hammer?

Brian May?

[Seraphial]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Funnily enough, Black Friday got me and I just purchased this bad boy!



Thought I'd go traditional - maple neck, butterscotch finish. Arrived last night and it's really nice. Plenty of sustain, fit and finish was good (though with a slight neck pocket gap), very smooth and surprising chunky neck,pickups really surprised me.

I can see why people consider it something you can have as you're one and only, but as a 3 x strat owner, I think they're on par.

[v8stang289]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

They may the the only one I need, but to me they are like Ruger DA revolvers. They work well, they get the job done, but they are ugly AF.

That's just my opinion of course

[Butch Snyder]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Actually, it is inferior to any other pickup ever made.

Not by the way it sounds when Bill Frissell is playing it.

A Telecaster isn't for everyone. A classic Telecaster with the traditional single coil pickups, not a humbucker, Strat neck pickup, P90, or any other pickup type Telecaster is not a guitar to be taken lightly. You get out of it what you put into it. It is the most responsive guitar I have ever played. The people who agree that it is among the most versatile of guitars, have learned to play them. In comparison to a Strat, where I sit there and switch pickups all day, I us my fingers and hands to more or less massage tones from my Telecaster. All I own and play are Telecasters.

The neck pickup? One of my most favorite guitar pickups.

https://youtu.be/fnDZ7yb5g-c

[Butch Snyder]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

This can be true but do you know a carpenter that only has one hammer?

Mike Stern
Jim Campilongo
Robben Ford uses his 1960 Tele almost exclusively these days.

[Chistopher]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

This can be true but do you know a carpenter that only has one hammer?

Why would you need more than one hammer? You can only swing one at a time...

[AlexR]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

^ horses for courses. Don't use a sledge to mount picture nails, nor a ball pein hammer to drive stakes in with.

Using the typical 'girlfriend reasoning' here isn't going to help you.

[Blille]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Not by the way it sounds when Bill Frissell is playing it.

A Telecaster isn't for everyone. A classic Telecaster with the traditional single coil pickups, not a humbucker, Strat neck pickup, P90, or any other pickup type Telecaster is not a guitar to be taken lightly. You get out of it what you put into it. It is the most responsive guitar I have ever played. The people who agree that it is among the most versatile of guitars, have learned to play them. In comparison to a Strat, where I sit there and switch pickups all day, I us my fingers and hands to more or less massage tones from my Telecaster. All I own and play are Telecasters.

The neck pickup? One of my most favorite guitar pickups.

https://youtu.be/fnDZ7yb5g-c

Mike Stern
Jim Campilongo
Robben Ford uses his 1960 Tele almost exclusively these days.

And let’s not forget Ted Greene and Ed Bickert!

https://youtu.be/zDuee6blvj8

https://youtu.be/bxPBvDYVX2w

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[GuitarStv]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Don't use a sledge to mount picture nails

Depends how fast you want the job done. :P