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All anyone objectively "needs" is food, water, and shelter , everything else is subjective wants. "Superior" is a Great Lake, not a particular guitar model Fan Boys often confuse subjective personal preference with objective comparison or analysis
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I think the player's sound(hands) comes through a Tele, for better or worse, more than any other electric guitar from back in the day. Add to that the incredible durability of a Telecaster, you have the perfect road guitar for a working musician. They also sound good through almost any amp, and can offer biting snarl, lush warmth, or something in between.
This isn't to say that Strats, LesPauls, 335's, etc., aren't just as viable, but if you could only have one guitar, and you were on a two month road trip playing six nights a week through the interior of British Columbia or somewhere else far from any major city, you wouldn't be wrong to take a Tele. Another great thing about a Tele is that it doesn't really matter who made it, a good Tele is a good Tele! They are not all great, but it isn't hard to find a good one. |
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Telecaster is great, and obviously up there. But don't think the consensus will ever be that it beats the strat?
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To diverge a bit, it can be jarring to go see an artist and find them playing something very different than you expect. I once went to see Johnny Winter and was a bit crushed to see him playing a headless guitar. Seemed downright sacrilegious. I once saw a video of Gilmour with a headless guitar. I have to laugh at myself a bit at how much it bothered me. |
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Telecasters and Stratocasters sound very alike is my experience, no matter what people try to tell you. (I acknowledge that I might sound just that little bit different on my Telecaster only because I play it that little bit differently to my Stratocaster and not because the instrument itself sounds dramatically different).
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Discussions of this nature really boil down to people thinking with their eyes as much as anything else. Really, just play whatever works for you and let others argue over what you should have chosen.
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Ultimately I'd rather have either a real strat or real tele to a Nashville. So my solution was to own a strat and a tele, which each do their thing better than the Nashville does. But as I mentioned above, when I have a strat and a tele, I never ever EVER play the tele. So they die of neglect and I sell them. Seems like the only #2 I've ever kept for any length of time has had P90s in it and that's what I have now - an SG with P90s. I play the strat probably 80-90% of the time, but the SG is there when I need a change of pace and I DO actually play it from time to time. Which I didn't do with even a really awesomely good tele. So to me, the Nashville sort of combined some of the features of a strat and a tele, but didn't really get the best of either except for a tele bridge pickup - an I'm not that much of a bridge pickup guy. So there was nothing really there for me. -Ray
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Every competently made and setup guitar is equally animated and limited by the player's (hands) ability to play it and adapt to it's particular strengths and weaknesses. The tele has one set of strengths (mostly based around the bridge pickup) that are perfect for some players, the strat has a couple other sets of strengths (based around the neck pickup and in-between positions), a semi-hollow with humbuckers or P90s had another set, and may be the most neutral and versatile a guitar as there is. But MY HANDS get across better on a strat than anything else. Brad Paisley's (vastly more talented) hands come through better on a tele, John Scofield's insanely talented hands come across better on a semi-hollow with humbuckers, Leslie West did really really well with a Les Paul with a P90 or two. People tend to make statement like that about their favorite guitar, which only means that it's their favorite guitar. I've also seen people say that a tele is a harder and less forgiving guitar than a strat or Les Paul and that they play and feel vastly different than a strat. I've played plenty of both for long enough to say balderdash and poppycock to that too - assuming similar necks, I find strats and teles to play pretty much identically except for the tremolo on a strat, but I always either deck or block them or, as now, dispense with them altogether with a hardtail strat. And minus a trem, they play the same, they just sound different. Everyone should play what they love - teles are perfectly lovable and many people love them best. But there's no one guitar that's the ultimate guitar. It might be for you or me, but guarantee it's not for lot's of other folks. And they're not wrong. -Ray
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One of the big differences to me, actually, is the feel. The feel, specifically, of the springs in a Strat's whammy undercarriage boinging around like a set of bad shocks. I don't care for it. But a Strat doesn't really sound like a Strat without it. |
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I don't know if I agree with one thing that was stated in the OP. It all seems made up to me.
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Ha! Yeah, see Post #13.
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The best guitar for you may not be the best guitar for the other guy, so buy the one that works for you and let him buy the one that works for him. This mindset of best being determined by consensus is nothing but balderdash and poppycock.
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