Favorite Telecaster pickups for live use

[alex1fly]

As y'all may know I'm not super pleased with the stock bridge pickup in my MIM Tele, so I'm thinking that addition to chasing a particular tonal characteristic, maybe I should also chase a particular use for the instrument - killer live tones that cut through a live mix! It's my experience that playing at home is vastly different than playing on a stage or at rehearsal. So I'd love to hear from folks about their favorite Telecaster pickups for live situations. What pickups have impressed you in a band setting? What styles and tones worked well with those pickups? Twang not required!

 

[Liam1963]

Little '59 or Hot Rails work well. I have a Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Tele bridge which is fantastic! I play classic rock and blues-rock.

 

[jeremy]

i basically only play live. the custom shop '53 tapped jb or whatever they are calling it now, it my favorite tele pup. 6.5k/9.5k with #42 pe, a2 rods. vintage tele with a little twang with the tapped output, throaty fat tele tones with the full output

 

[Mincer]

A Jerry Donahue with some kind of PAF-level humbucker (Seth, Alnico II, 59) is always a great bet. It ill be a versatile live guitar with some weight behind it, and it can till sound like a Tele.