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I've never got the appeal of the Tele, being a Strat guy. They sound so painfully thin and trebley, ack! No color to the sound, just a cold steel ice pick to your cochlear region pounded by a hammer. Maybe it was too many nights in the front row "kill zone" of Mike Bloomfield's Tele through a Twin. Like he was shooting everybody with a nail gun.

Besides, Strats get all the treble and bite you need from the bridge P/U. But Teles are light and comfortable and sweet to play, I grant em that.


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I've never got the appeal of the Tele, being a Strat guy. They sound so painfully thin and trebley, ack! No color to the sound, just a cold steel ice pick to your cochlear region pounded by a hammer. Maybe it was too many nights in the front row "kill zone" of Mike Bloomfield's Tele through a Twin. Like he was shooting everybody with a nail gun.

Besides, Strats get all the treble and bite you need from the bridge P/U. But Teles are light and comfortable and sweet to play, I grant em that.


Dude, if you only get thin treble tone out of your tele then there is a problem. I have one start thadt doesnt get a lot of action, but i play my teles all the time. I get big fat tone out of mine. With tons of bight more than i get with my strat. the fact i play through a great amp and use lowtuine 11's dont hurt but my teles tonea are rich and warm......i couldnt imagine not haveing a tele around


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Yeah, the undersea cables for strings would help. You know what it is, so many soloists on teles just go for that rock hard thin "too clean" trebley icepick tone, the old early Bloomfield sound, Steve Cropper, a zillion old R&B guys, Roy too. So I never think you could get a phat or warm tone out of the thing. I use the neck pickup and it just sounds like quiet mush. Now a Strat, I can do it all with that sucker. And it stays sweet and musical throughout.


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Maruuk wrote:
I've never got the appeal of the Tele, being a Strat guy. They sound so painfully thin and trebley, ack! No color to the sound, just a cold steel ice pick to your cochlear region pounded by a hammer. Maybe it was too many nights in the front row "kill zone" of Mike Bloomfield's Tele through a Twin. Like he was shooting everybody with a nail gun.

Besides, Strats get all the treble and bite you need from the bridge P/U. But Teles are light and comfortable and sweet to play, I grant em that.


I would pick a Strat over a Tele any day--but there's no denying the sweet sounds Roy Buchanan got out of one.

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I don't know, his metallic tone always sounded awfully nasty, industrial, thin and trebley to me. I can dig that in a track riding above lots of other instruments, but out there in that trio so naked I always think, "Dang so glad I'm not sitting in the front row kill zone of his Vibrolux!"

You contrast that with Jeff Beck's tone on "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" (dedicated to Roy Buchanan, an homage) and it's lovely, just a beautiful luscious tone.


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look at some one like Brad paisley he has great tone through a tele. I mean it is all realative i suppose but i love the raw natural earthy tone i get from my teles


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Once you start to grind em into overdrive they get all nice and warm and gooey. But through a Twin or a Super dimed like Roy did it, where's my earmuffs Ma?


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Roy could work a Tele.

If you get a chance, check Scotty Anderson tele. work.
The CD "Triple Stop" is awesome.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgqGHCI8o&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ym93F7beTA4&feature=related

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Maruuk wrote:
Once you start to grind em into overdrive they get all nice and warm and gooey. But through a Twin or a Super dimed like Roy did it, where's my earmuffs Ma?


That is true i have pretty much always used a tube amp turned up to deafining volumes with some tube screamers to ge t a huge fat firty tone.

how ever i do love to roll the tone back put it on the neck pu through my polyrtone and get some nice jazz/swing type tones out of it to

Oh and by the Maruuk i use telephone pole wire.....lol


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Comes in handy when storms knock down the phone lines...


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I first heard of Roy Buchanan when I read Levon Helms biography, These Wheel's on Fire. He says that Roy played with the early Band, then called The Hawks, but was fired because he insisted that he was half werewolf and destined to marry a nun. :S


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I loved Albert Collins, but Gatton and Buchanan were the true masters of the Telecaster.


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Gatton is one of those guys you figure HAD to have made a deal with The Dark Lord at the Crossroads. Humans can't play that fast or that good. In fact, I doubt humans can even PROCESS all the stuff he was doing at the same time. Guitar players don't listen to Gatton much--too depressing. You pick your axe and just go--WHY BOTHER?


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