A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

[B2D]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Suprised no one has mentioned the Parker P-36, I almost bought one a few years back.

I encountered one some months back in LA. I REALLY liked it.

 

[Aceman]

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Suprised no one has mentioned the Parker P-36, I almost bought one a few years back.

If LesStrat played a Tele, this would be it.

 

[Dave Locher]

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Well, now that we are here on page 6, I guess full disclosure is in order. I have owned only one telecaster in my life, and it was only around a few years. Samick/Valley Arts Ray Benson:

A sweet ride, but hardly basic...

So, yeah, y'all have been rolled, patrolled, trolled, and extolled! Great Tele thread, but I do not have a dog in this hunt.

I knew it! You sneaky bastard!

 

[Aceman]

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I turned the Tele, a sweet Yamaha PAc712 and a few others into a 1973 Les Paul Standard with a SuperDistortion. It's really the only guitar anyone would ever need....:saeek:

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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By the OP's standard Mike Stern is a 'can't do'. His tele (a Yamaha actually) is equipped with 59 and Hot Rails.

 

[stevie_bees]

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Go big or go home
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I still gas heavily over that Wayne SuperTele!

 

[ErikH]

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In reality, my #1 Frankenstrat is the only electric guitar I need. I've had my fair share of Teles, down to the Esquire I assembled a few years ago. But alas, I no longer have any of them. While I was able to get what I wanted tone wise and playability wise out of them, they all had one inherent thing that would bug me.... the balance. It would make the guitar want to go straight across the body without holding on to it where as my Frankenstrat will keep an upward angle if I tilt it and let go. So, I will stick with my Strats and others that balance the way I like them.

 

[zionstrat]

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

Wow!

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[Butch Snyder]

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Got me.... I knew it was too good to be true.

 

[Samick Lover]

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[mistermikev]

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"that's all I need... this tele... and this tell over here... and that's ALL I need... oh and this strat, and this les paul, but that's all I need. these teles and this strat and this les paul... oh and this dano... and this jem... but that's all I need! ..."

 

[Wattage]

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Nope. If that was my only choice, I'd be playing cello for sure.

I almost agree except I think it would be banjo bwahahahaha

 

[zionstrat]

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Love that photo!

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[Discharged]

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"A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need"

Speak for yourself, Ace.

The rest of the world would choose a LP.

So there! :nana: :nana: :nana:

 

[mistermikev]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

"a telecaster is the only electric guitar you need" ... assuming you already have all others.

 

[Masta' C]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Well, now that we are here on page 6, I guess full disclosure is in order. I have owned only one telecaster in my life, and it was only around a few years. Samick/Valley Arts Ray Benson:

A sweet ride, but hardly basic...

Awwww! How cute!

It has a bib so it doesn't get spaghetti sauce all over its nice maple top!

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

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My only issue with using only a Tele is I need a whammy bar. [emoji16]


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[Aceman]

Bump because Tele discussion

 

[Securb]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

My only issue with using only a Tele is I need a whammy bar. [emoji16]


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There are plenty out there with Bigbys and even some with Floyds

 

[JB_From_Hell]

I could totally get by with just my Tele... but I’d rather have my Falbo 8, PRS, Les Paul, and a slew of Strats as well.