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Post subject: Is Fender Tele Good for Blues?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 5:01 pm
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Hey im just wondering if Telecasters are good for blues and even if possible Dire Straits. Im gonna be buying one soon. An American standard 2008 model. But I don't know if i want to buy a Strat instead.


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Yeah, the Tele can do blues pretty darned well. And it should be fine doing Dire Staits stuff too ( I think Knopfler **spelling :oops: ** has used teles before )

Telecasters can be stubborn. You have to kind of meet them halfway :) You have to be willing to play with the tone to get it just right. Plus there is the matter of the lack of a Tremolo system...unless you get a Tele with a Bigsby?


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Telecasters are great for just about any style of music, except maybe some extreme death metal, but otherwise, you can do just about anything with them...

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bowlfreshener wrote:
Telecasters are great for just about any style of music, except maybe some extreme death metal, but otherwise, you can do just about anything with them...


The 2008 MIMs with the hot tele pickups doe all metal quite well, so now...you can do ANYTHING with a tele. :D


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Plus there is the matter of the lack of a Tremolo system...unless you get a Tele with a Bigsby?


Kahler has a surface mount hybrid trem that you can mount on the face of a tele!


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Post subject: Re: Is Fender Tele Good for Blues?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:56 pm
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Dragz wrote:
Hey im just wondering if Telecasters are good for blues and even if possible Dire Straits. Im gonna be buying one soon. An American standard 2008 model. But I don't know if i want to buy a Strat instead.


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strato wrote:
Just ask Albert Collins 8)
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but hes got humbuckers on his


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scarroll1 wrote:
Yeah, the Tele can do blues pretty darned well. And it should be fine doing Dire Staits stuff too ( I think Knopfler **spelling :oops: ** has used teles before )

Telecasters can be stubborn. You have to kind of meet them halfway :) You have to be willing to play with the tone to get it just right. Plus there is the matter of the lack of a Tremolo system...unless you get a Tele with a Bigsby?


o nice. thanks. And Knofpler uses Teles sometimes. Like Walk of Life. But thats jsut a simple 12 bar blues he does.

and i think i get wat u mean there???


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:D Don't read too much into it. I just mean you will have to play with your amp and tone/volume controls to get just the kind of blues sound you want.

But then you have to do that with just about any type of guitar.


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scarroll1 wrote:
:D Don't read too much into it. I just mean you will have to play with your amp and tone/volume controls to get just the kind of blues sound you want.

But then you have to do that with just about any type of guitar.


hahaha yea u r rite.

well i hav played it once. but i was too nervous to turn it up. i have only been playing for 1 year and a hhalf. lol


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Post subject: Re: Is Fender Tele Good for Blues?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:13 pm
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Dragz wrote:
Hey im just wondering if Telecasters are good for blues and even if possible Dire Straits. Im gonna be buying one soon. An American standard 2008 model. But I don't know if i want to buy a Strat instead.


In a word, yes. I think the Tele is just as versatile as the Strat. A Tele and a good amp will provide all the tone you need for blues, rock, country, jazz, pop, and virtually everything else.

Regarding Albert King's Tele, it's probably got an old Gibson PAF in the front position. It's not an uncommon modification and warms up the front tone while retaining all of the lovely spank from the bridge pickup.


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Post subject: Re: Is Fender Tele Good for Blues?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:31 am
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Vulkan wrote:
Dragz wrote:
Hey im just wondering if Telecasters are good for blues and even if possible Dire Straits. Im gonna be buying one soon. An American standard 2008 model. But I don't know if i want to buy a Strat instead.


In a word, yes. I think the Tele is just as versatile as the Strat. A Tele and a good amp will provide all the tone you need for blues, rock, country, jazz, pop, and virtually everything else.

Regarding Albert King's Tele, it's probably got an old Gibson PAF in the front position. It's not an uncommon modification and warms up the front tone while retaining all of the lovely spank from the bridge pickup.


o ok. thanks. WEll ill be buying mine soon. QUITE EXCITED :D
and im gonna save up for a Fender Blues Deville 410 maybe


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Any guitar is good for blues including the jackson randy rhodes.
Knopfler used a tele on southbound again. The statement that you have to work with a tele is a very accurate one. Use the volume and tone controls and you'll find a wide array of sounds.

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Post subject: Re: Is Fender Tele Good for Blues?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:58 am
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Vulkan wrote:
Regarding Albert King's Tele, it's probably got an old Gibson PAF in the front position. It's not an uncommon modification and warms up the front tone while retaining all of the lovely spank from the bridge pickup.


Do you mean Albert Collins? I always thought Albert King played a Flying V.

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