Please Teach me about Rock Telecasters

[JaySwear]

Nope. Telecaster is a body style, just like strat, les paul, etc.

I disagree.

definitely. owning a dual humbucking tele deluxe (and planning on owning another some day) i've heard a few "thats not a tele" remarks. but it is. a super strat is still a strat. you can call it a "super tele" but it's still a telecaster.

it's all in the body style to me. gibson made the SG3. 3 single coil pickups. nobody calls it a strat!

 

[mayfly]

@mayfly, love your tele, dig your video. That a b-bender on there?

Thanks buddy!  - Yep, it's a parson's green b-bender.  I have them in a couple of guitars and use them live all the time.

A bit of a process to install mind you...

 

[-CB-]

mckinley morganfield, rocked a tele

And quite a number of wimmins too

 

[mayfly]

And quite a number of wimmins too

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ebqWOGY8o[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=SPankJ0TytY&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[DangerousR6]

This one rocks.

I'm blind!

John 5 is the absolute master of the Rock Tele.... :icon_thumright:

 

[Patrick from Davis]

Frank Black, or Black Francis at the time, with the Pixies was enough for me when I was younger.  Love em or hate em, they definitely rocked the Tele.
Patrick

 

[AprioriMark]

I can't believe some of you bums dogging on the boss.  He can hold his own on that Esquire for sure.  He, Joe Strummer, Black Francis and Steve Cropper were the reasons I started playing guitar.

-Mark

 

[DangerousR6]

I can't believe some of you bums dogging on the boss.  He can hold his own on that Esquire for sure.  He, Joe Strummer, Black Francis and Steve Cropper were the reasons I started playing guitar.

-Mark

Whatever, Keef has lost more talented brain cells than Springsteen could have ever dreamed of having. And that's not saying a lot, since Keef isn't really that great a player... :glasses9:

 

[swarfrat]

Is it just me or, maybe I don't properly appreciate it because I lack the historical context. (And have heard the million guitar players it influenced)  But to me, Honkey Tonk Women - the rest of the song doesn't even come close to living up to the opening riff and first verse or so. Like, maybe you shoulda saved a riff that grabby for something better. Once the rest of the band gets going it kinda washes out the arrestingness of the opening.

 

[OzziePete]

Nah, I reckon Keef CAN play guitar.

I saw a vid of him doing "Love In Vain" on an acoustic, he stuffed up the first take but got the second and went from there. That sort of acoustic work requires some ability...

It is unclear what lead guitar breaks he laid down for Stones tracks and who else did it. But he definitely laid down the riffs, that is what he's renowned for.

Springsteen can hold his own, I saw him trying to duel with James Burton on Roy Orbison's vid and he did alright. James still wiped the floor with him in the end, but he had a go. Springsteen also did some savage rhythm work on songs like "War" live too.

 

[Cagey]

Is it just me or, maybe I don't properly appreciate it because I lack the historical context. (And have heard the million guitar players it influenced)  But to me, Honkey Tonk Women - the rest of the song doesn't even come close to living up to the opening riff and first verse or so. Like, maybe you shoulda saved a riff that grabby for something better. Once the rest of the band gets going it kinda washes out the arrestingness of the opening.

No, they needn't have saved the riff for something else, but they could have been a little less ambitious about how many instruments and voices got dragged into the song. It ends up almost an unintelligible cacophony after a while, sorta like an unruly mob of musicians who all want to be in front. I've heard it done by 4 piece cover bands who make it sound better, because they don't have all the keyboards, brass, background vocals and noise that the original has.

A lot of modern bands do the same thing with synths. They get so many layers going it's ridiculous. You can't pick any one thing out, and you'd swear they've got a 90 piece percussion section. It's like they said to themselves "we bought 48GB of sampled instruments and a mainframe so we could handle 4,096 voice polyphony, and by God we're going to plug every one of them into every song!" Ends up sounding like Coldplay white noise.

 

[kboman]

How about our very own rightintheface?

 

[m4rk0]

This one rocks.

I'm blind!

John 5 is the absolute master of the Rock Tele.... :icon_thumright:

I believe you meant Ritchie Kotzen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg8SOWIzSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V10pLv3XRIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVS6sSoNOA

 

[m4rk0]

http://fretpoint.com/2009/11/22/richie-kotzen-signature-telecaster-review/

 

[Cagey]

Mr. Kotzen certainly does make good use of a Tele. On the one hand, it makes me want a Tele, but on the other it makes me want to sell all my gear and join a monastery <grin>

 

[AprioriMark]

Springsteen can hold his own, I saw him trying to duel with James Burton on Roy Orbison's vid and he did alright. James still wiped the floor with him in the end, but he had a go. Springsteen also did some savage rhythm work on songs like "War" live too.

I almost referenced that concert in my post, but didn't because I was posting from my phone while eating Pho in a casino, and typing on a Blackberry is difficult while trying not to spill.  That was a long time ago, too.  I'm sure he hasn't gotten worse.  He might not be a shred God, but the man can deliver a song, and is a solid player.

-Mark

 

[m4rk0]

Mr. Kotzen certainly does make good use of a Tele. On the one hand, it makes me want a Tele, but on the other it makes me want to sell all my gear and join a monastery <grin>

yeah, he is really good.. and also a little overlooked and underrated I feel..

 

[JaySwear]

How about our very own rightintheface?

definitely. i love that youtube video in his profile!

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

http://fretpoint.com/2009/11/22/richie-kotzen-signature-telecaster-review/

In and around his stint in Poison years, I think he played an Ibanez version of a Tele also.

 

[AutoBat]

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TfdIsak1Y"
and
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_2Yw6SwADQ"
and
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhnUtEGg58k"