Telecasters - what's the appeal?

[mtdmind]

Originally Posted by s2y

Results may vary. I wouldn't advise placing bets or selling your soul to that dude against a real Steve Vai.

I think Steve Vai actually did the real playing that Ralph M acted out.

[Long813]

Originally Posted by mtdmind

I think Steve Vai actually did the real playing that Ralph M acted out.

And it was RJ Cooper or someone that did Ralphs part.

[mr. beaumont]

I think it was Ry Cooder who played the slide parts...both parts of the "Turkish March" excerpt the kid uses to beat the devil at the end were played by Vai, and mimed by Macchio...

[DocPate]

The Tele is a great guitar! But everyone who has played one knows that. For us country players, it had the "twang" we were looking for. When played through one of the original "Tweed" amps, it was exactly what Nashville needed in the days of the transition from pure acoustic to amplification. I happened to get one of the first "Nocasters", the transition instrument in the early 50's when Fender settled with Gretsch over the name "Broadcaster". Of course, the "Nocaster" became a Telecaster.

The two pickups were all that we needed. Gave us the twang for lead and the depth in tone for rhythm. Even today, when I am looking for just the right tone, I still reach for the tele.

[mtdmind]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

I think it was Ry Cooder who played the slide parts...both parts of the "Turkish March" excerpt the kid uses to beat the devil at the end were played by Vai, and mimed by Macchio...

There were three excellent guitarists involved in the making of that movie:
William Kanegiser, Ry Cooder, and Steve Vai.

[s2y]

Stay gold, Pony Boy. STAY GOLD!!!!

[stratokatsu]

Yesterday I received an SX Furrian, a Tele clone from Rondo Music. Overlooking what a huge value it is for the meager $99 price, I thought about this thread and about things you can do with a Tele that are harder on other guitars.

For example, You can take off the bridge and/or the pickguard and replace the pickups without doing more than loosening the strings.

Or, you can take off the control plate and jack, then totally rewire the guitar without having to even loosen the strings.

Forget the sound... I wonder if anyone ever looked at the ease and convenience of maintaining a Tele and found so much benefit to it they chose it as a road axe?

[jfhatcher]

My love for the tele is the shape. I have an FMT, the one with twin humbuckers so it's definitely not a purist's tele, but I love it. The shape is just iconic and it's what drew me in.

Originally Posted by stratokatsu

Or, you can take off the control plate and jack, then totally rewire the guitar without having to even loosen the strings.

Have you used an electrosocket jack mount. it beats any stock one I've ever seen. Best $10 part I ever put on a guitar.

Cool thread.

[Eric_M]

Originally Posted by mtdmind

There were three excellent guitarists involved in the making of that movie:
William Kanegiser, Ry Cooder, and Steve Vai.

Yes. You could add to that Arlen Roth, who was Macchio's guitar coach.

Originally Posted by jfhatcher

Have you used an electrosocket jack mount. it beats any stock one I've ever seen. Best $10 part I ever put on a guitar.

+1.

[imwjl]

Yeah to lots of what has been said here.

The PRS comment stood out. My PRS is just so easy to play but it's always the Telecaster getting most play time.

I spent the morning trying to figure out why my Am Dlx Ash Strat is on craigslist because it could be considered easier via compound radius or shape. I put the Strat and my PRS in the case and the Telecaster's still out.

Maybe I like Telecasters because my first electric came 25 years after an acoustic - the shape and bridge.

I've gone GAS crazy and back to sanity. Hard to say why, but a Telecaster and Princeton Reverb would be it if a person could only have one electric setup.

[tbp0701]

A few years ago, I needed a refret for my Strat. While it was a way, I broke down and bought a Tele. I was a little mixed on it, at first, and I even think I created a thread at the TDPRI about regretting the purchase. A while later, though, I picked it up and something connected. Since then it's been my most played electric.

I'm not sure I can add much more than what's been said. I think the common description of Robert Frost's poems as "deceptively simple" applies well to the Telecaster.

[Hotraman]

Originally Posted by s2y

Clearly I didn't get that memo.

Exactly ... That's why I own a Telecaster B bender .. Best of both worlds!

[SSgt93]

Have a 63 Custom Shop with Abby pickups coming. Can't wait, the bridge pickup sound is untouchable by any other guitar.

[trpullen]

My CS Tele has a Twisted Tele in the neck and a Abby Wound in the Bridge. Cuts like a laser.

[moon]

How about this non-standard tele with TV Jones pickups