A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

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Had Telecasters in his Bomb Shelter.

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

What if your whole style is based on the tremolo bar though

Or like what if you're Mattias ei eklundh

Or Mick Gordon


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Bigsby, and/or Hipshot

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Well then, all you need is a superstrat.

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No

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I don't like the upper fret access with a telecaster. The little cutaway sucks, and I bang my wrist on the horn. I also find myself much preferring to play a guitar with a trem these days. The neck pickup is inferior to a strat neck pickup (bridge pickup is great though - and the tele sounds great with both pickups in parallel). The telecaster is also (bar none) the ugliest guitar shape ever designed. Something that is only enhanced by the prevalence of posers smashing their brand new guitars up with goofy looking 'relicing' to pretend that they're old and well-loved instruments.

Not really for me.

Well then, as mentioned, you just can't do it.

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Lots of folks like those things.... but in my humble opinion, it's the Ugliest guitar ever made, second is the strat.... I would have to switch to the bass. Because **** ugly guitars! Ha ha ha

I respect your choice to switch. But you did not say it wasn't possible to do it on a Tele.

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I think that you meant to post a snakeskin Kramer Baretta here [/IMG]

Nope, this:

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I ain't want no anemic jingle jangle single coil nasal crap.

I guess you can't. This guy can....

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

A TELECASTER is the only guitar you need, as long as it is comfortably playable and reliable, you have an amp that provides you with a wide tonal palette, and you are a good musician.

Fixed

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

And for all of the Strat suggesters....It's a Tele with an extra cutaway, a middle pickup, and a trem.

For people who can't do it with a Tele. Which would be you.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Come to think of it, while a Tele can't do all the "obvious answers" as far as the tones for specific styles of music, I can't think of a single one where it would sound entirely out of place. Kind of like how The Clash could perform any genre, but not in the way you think they would, and it was all still very much punk. Likewise, you could put a Tele in the thrashiest of thrash metal, and it would fit, but still obviously be a Tele.

...and BTW you can't tell me that there's a better SD set in terms of simplicity matched with versatility than a Seth Lover neck, Jerry Donahue bridge.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Twice I have seen Gibson players I liked using borrowed Teles and both of them sounded really good to me. Shockingly so. Tele into Marshall = nice. Harder and more clarity than a Les Paul for rythm and riffs. Neither dude was playing any single-note solos though. I imagine that would be harder to pull off without changing pickups and/or boost pedals.

(I know one of the guitars in my avatar looks like a Tele but it really isn't: humbucker, wraparound bridge, and 24 3/4 scale neck.)

 

[ibanezrocks]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

...and BTW you can't tell me that there's a better SD set in terms of simplicity matched with versatility than a Seth Lover neck, Jerry Donahue bridge.

I suspect the majority of guitarists would disagree with you and prefer a humbucker in the bridge. Guitar sales would confirm that.

The Custom is the most versatile pickup IMO. Put it with a Jazz, 59, Pearly Gates, WLH, Seth Lover, whatever. Put it in any wood, any style of guitar, it'll sound good.

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[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I always liked Teles. I play a Parker, but it kind of sounds like a Tele.

But here’s my “Tele” [emoji2] It’s built kind of like a Les Paul. Thick swamp ash body with a carved maple top and a set neck. Still sounds like a Tele. Scale length has a lot to do with that.

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[Chistopher]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

I suspect the majority of guitarists would disagree with you and prefer a humbucker in the bridge. Guitar sales would confirm that.

Well if you consider that the vast majority of guitar sales are for people who will never play them for more than a month, then that figure has considerably less meaning.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

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

Hence the reason for me putting a Psyclone in the neck of mine! :smokin:

 

[nexion218]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

No way in hell a Stratocaster is uglier than this thing, lol

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Oh c'mon... It's a Gibson, it MUST be great, mustn't it?

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Are you Davie504 ??

 

[Jacew]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

And for all of the Strat suggesters....It's a Tele with an extra cutaway, a middle pickup, and a trem.

For people who can't do it with a Tele. Which would be you.

... and better intonation and ergonomics.

 

[ibanezrocks]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Well if you consider that the vast majority of guitar sales are for people who will never play them for more than a month, then that figure has considerably less meaning.

You can filter out the budget stuff and I'd expect it wouldn't change much. Considering how many Squiers are sold to beginners it might even tip it more towards humbuckers.

Maybe someone from SD could weigh in? What's the ratio of bridge humbuckers sold to bridge single coils sold?

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[Chistopher]

Re: A Telecaster is the ONLY electric guitar you need

Maybe someone from SD could weigh in? What's the ratio of bridge humbuckers sold to bridge single coils sold?

Obviously more bridge humbuckers, a Tele bridge sounds good the moment you first pick the guitar up.