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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:59 pm
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Every genre of guitar oriented music has used a Tele as a lead instrument. Just about every country player, classic rock(Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Springsteen), punk (Clash, Pretenders), Metal (Slipknot), Blues (Albert King, Johnny Lang)...

But, that's all irrelevant, because you can use any guitar ever made for a lead instrument- it's your music- do what ever makes you happy and expresses how you feel- use a chain saw if you want to...

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Of course it can! most any guitar can be lead if you let it.

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DAVID GILMOUR known mostly as a Strat guy does some cool lead work on this live version of Fat Old Sun using a Tele. Check it out!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YANM9lz4c


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IT worked well for JIMMY PAGE, MUDDY WATERS, BB KING, ALBERT COLLINS,PRINCE<BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN, 99% of all COUNTRY BANDS,
ROY BUCHANNAN, CLAPTON....

I think every guitar player has used a TELE at sometime in his career.

I used NOTHING but TELES from the mid 60's till the late70's and then moved to GIBSON:S but still have huge LOVE and need for the tone from a TELE, hence my reason my having 20+ of em

GO to ITUNES or some download place and download a song by
ROY BUCHANNAN called" WHEN A GUITAR PLAYS THE BLUES" and that song will give you your answer.

IF ya wanna hear some great blues played on a TELE go t WWW.ALLIGATOR.COM..it's the ALLIGATOR RECORDS SITE....lot's of blues teles tearing it up and at fair prices.....

ENJOY HOPE I WAS SOME HELP TO YOU
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Post subject: Re: can the telecaster be use as lead guitar???
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:11 pm
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trazsher wrote:
...bec some says that telecaster is not good for lead...


Raiught - tell that to Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck!


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rictus23 wrote:
of course you could play lead on a tele. look at john5. he used teles on all four of his solo albums, and they came out to be legendary. he even won an award for Devil Knows my Name, which was done on a tele. you dont have to have a whammy bar to be a great lead.


Not to be a nitpicker -- especially because I'm at the head of the Tele train most days -- but John 5's signature "Telecasters" are not really Telecasters: they're aberrations. And they're ugly. I'll stop now.

To the point: I agree with what has been said a few times earlier on this thread. Telecasters are indeed the most versatile electric guitars around, but the notion of qualifying some guitars as "lead instruments" and others as "rhythm instruments" is ludicrous. Instruments by nature only account for so much of any given sound; the vast majority of a sound or tone comes from the player. That's why Malcolm Young can play heavy rhythm parts on a Gretsch and why Jimmy Page can wail on a Telecaster; it's why Prince uses a cheap Tele copy and why so many jazz players honk away on Teles.

So yes, the Tele is a great lead instrument.


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A tele displays every nuance of your technique. Even more than the average strat. It is said, that you can't hide behind a telecaster.


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My Tele FMT IS My lead Guitar!! When those babies get suped up with Double Bucks, The Thickness & Sustain through my MARSHALL are Insane!!

But I Agree with the majority here, It's about the Player, Not the Guitar!

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You gotta be kidding...the Tele HAS been used for lead for 55+ years....


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Hard to believe ths question. Not only can it be but should be and has always been. Along with all other types of guitars!


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Jommit wrote:
And as not so many might know, Jimi Hendrix recorded the studio version of both "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" on a borrowed Tele.


No. No, no, no.

NO.

Purple Haze maybe, but Hey Joe... NO.

The guitar was borrowed on February 1, 1967, whilst Hey Joe was recorded a few months earlier.

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trazsher wrote:
can the telecaster be use as lead guitar??? either than stratocaster... yah i know, it can be use as lead but is it desame sound as stratocaster.. bec some says that telecaster is not good for lead...


Not only can the Tele be used for lead guitar, it can do so quite well. Does it sound the same as a Strat? No, not really. Each guitar has its own distinct tone. Just as a Strat doesn't sound the same as a Les Paul. Each is different, all are unique, all can sound very good playing lead.


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It's all in the player's hands.


Paisley, Buchanon, Gatton, early Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, Albert Collins, Vince Gill, I could go on and on...These were mentioned before and are, certainly, some of my favorite guitarists. All them players that use(ed) Teles for everything.
But they were never as popular around the world as lets say, some Hendrix or Clapton or Santana or Les Paul-era Jimmy Page, Angus Young or Slash, that had such a huge exposure. People usually go after getting the most popular things they see on TV, be it clothes, shoes, girlfriends or guitars.

Blame Hendrix and Clapton: :lol:

So people turned "Teles are not good for lead" in a myth because they are just not as popular as Strats (the Strat itself was rather unpopular before Hendrix appeared with one in London '66), it became a sort of snowball thing, one famous guy picked a Strat back then, then another one liked it and got his, and the young players watching them on TV and concerts did the same and so on...

Finally, it lead some individuals to automatically think there might be "something wrong" about Teles (or any other model other than Strats and Les Pauls specially).


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I'm sure someone's already mentioned Roy Buchanan, but I thought I'd ost this link for his version of Sweet Dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOptDDU3rOo


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