I forsake all guitars except the Telecaster!

[Powdered Toast Man]

That sounds like a mod that I could embrace with my OA50s. Is there a 5-way that also does the Leo bass-line thing with the neck pickup? Because this sick little monkey would totally do it.

I've never done a 5-way. But I suppose with the right wiring layout anything is possible!

 

[Aceman]

I've never done a 5-way.

I'm guessing you have never done a 3-way either....

 

[Sirion]

They are cool guitars, and no doubt theyre the right guitars for Mick, but calling them Teles is more than a stretch.

Don't worry, I'm just yanking Aceman's chain because I know that he gets the joke. That said, I will say that a Mick Mars tele could do anything a regular tele could well enough.

 

[JOLLY]

Welcome to 1951.

 

[ErikH]

Fender’s current American “Standard” Tele’s don’t even have tiny frets and a 7.25” radius. Heck, they don’t even have an ashtray bridge and brass saddles. They are still a Tele in every way. Cork sniffers be damned! Lol.

 

[Aceman]

The Tele is not about a fretboard radius, or a size of fret wire.

One must look beyond those things, into the heart and soul of the guitar.

Just because it says Fender, does not mean it is a Tele. Just because it does not say fender, doesn't mean it is not a Tele.

Tele is in the hands of the player....

This is my wisdom, this is my truth.

 

[ErikH]

Exactly my point, LPB. You’ve nailed it. I’ve had Tele’s with vintage and modern specs. They all sounded like a Tele. There are players out there that wouldn’t accept anything but an ashtray bridge and brass saddles. I’m not one of them.

 

[Aceman]

Its cool that some Teletype D) guitars come with the ashtray, but Im not playing it with that damned thing on there.

The ashtray is because of smoking hot country licks

 

[Benjy_26]

Don't worry, I'm just yanking Aceman's chain because I know that he gets the joke. That said, I will say that a Mick Mars tele could do anything a regular tele could well enough.

Negative. I don't think I'd show up to a jazz gig with a Mick Mars tele.

 

[Bogner]

Before someone comes in here and b*tches that the Tele has no body contours and is a basic out of date slab of wood....

I would like to remind you that the actual issue is you are FAT, not the Tele lacking body contours.... The Tele is fine.

You only need body contours when you are letting gluttony affect your guitar playing.

So the forearm contour on a strat is for fat forearms? Body contours have nothing to do with body type. They have to do with being comfortable. I personally prefer thick slab tele's with no contours and I am a thin person but I have teles that have contours (same with Les Paul types, Double cut types, etc and I can't think of one that isn't more comfortable to play over its non contoured counterpart.) On the flip side, I will say that I think a tele is a unique guitar feel wise and jumping to a tele if you are used to playing other guitars can feel very different. In those cases especially, I feel a contoured body tele is more familiar than the slab tele body.

 

[Dave Locher]

I have tried Teles. Twice I owned a variation. Once I spent an afternoon in a shop trying out every Tele they had, from Squier to US Fender. I just can't make them work for me.
I'm pretty sure this is a personal failing on my part.

 

[NegativeEase]

So the forearm contour on a strat is for fat forearms? Body contours have nothing to do with body type. They have to do with being comfortable. I personally prefer thick slab tele's with no contours and I am a thin person but I have teles that have contours (same with Les Paul types, Double cut types, etc and I can't think of one that isn't more comfortable to play over its non contoured counterpart.) On the flip side, I will say that I think a tele is a unique guitar feel wise and jumping to a tele if you are used to playing other guitars can feel very different. In those cases especially, I feel a contoured body tele is more familiar than the slab tele body.

Yeah, B, I'm making as much of a joke as anything serious Brosef

-but it is true, a low slung Tele will face away and down from an artist will a protuberous belly.

 

[Sirion]

Negative. I don't think I'd show up to a jazz gig with a Mick Mars tele.

Holdsworth (and a few other fusion cats) made it work for them with very similar guitars, although I'd agree that neiher guitar is a typical jazz axe.

 

[Benjy_26]

Holdsworth (and a few other fusion cats) made it work for them with very similar guitars, although I'd agree that neiher guitar is a typical jazz axe.

I've sat in with jazz quartets and trios, and I've gotten weird looks if I show up with the thinline tele or thr Les Paul, but the tones are appropriate when playing standards. As much as I like Holdsworth, I don't think I can pull of his quasi-keyboard tones myself.

 

[Mincer]

Holdsworth (and a few other fusion cats) made it work for them with very similar guitars, although I'd agree that neiher guitar is a typical jazz axe.

Man, his thing is really his own, isn't it?

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Amazing! How did he do all that with those weak single-coil pickups, 21 frets, primitive electronics, 70-year-old bridge design, and heavy ash body?

So every single-cut guitar thats not based on an LP or ES is automatically a Telecaster? The effects of the body shape in that one spot above the neck override everything else and determine which guitars sound and play like Teles and which ones dont? Im not buying it.

It's a joke dude, a joke... Are you actually not getting it or playing along?

Anyway, yes to Tele. I used to hate its shape until I got a Schecter PT on impulse. The secret is not the shape indeed, it's the ash tray and brass saddle.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Lol, my sarcasm/joking sensors have been off lately.

You need contours...lol:

 

[SlyFoxx]

So, I plugged my Telecaster into my Cube, set it for a light / bright break up, put a touch of reverb on, and played the intro to Lonely Is The Night by Billy Squier.

I understand everything now. Les Pauls, Stratocasters, Superstar's, V's, Cadillacs be damned. All garbage.

There is nothing so pure, so perfect, so simple, so righteous, as a Telecaster.

.

 

[Bogner]

a low slung Tele will face away and down from an artist will a protuberous belly.

What asshole plays a low slung guitar at the bottom of their belly? That is a poser who got it wrong. Only a n00b would play their guitar slightly above the knee while standing. If you are on the "bulky" side I doubt a simple body contour on a guitar is going to truly solve the problem.

 

[NegativeEase]

What ******* plays a low slung guitar at the bottom of their belly? That is a poser who got it wrong. Only a n00b would play their guitar slightly above the knee while standing. If you are on the "bulky" side I doubt a simple body contour on a guitar is going to truly solve the problem.

A lot of chubby posers out there apparently!