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Bill C. Buntin Member From: back at home in Cleburne, TX |
posted 02 January 2005 06:06 AM
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Gibson, Gretsch of old. But I'd give the Tele the #1 spot of ALL TIME. |
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Toby Rider Member From: Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
posted 05 September 2005 12:54 PM
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Teles, Strats, Gretsches, 335's, big jazz boxes, they all have good useful sounds for country. That's why it helps to own at least one of each, and decide what to play based on the feel of the song :-) You can get a very good solid jazz sound out of the neck position on a Tele as well, especially with a humbucker/mini-hum or filtertron installed into that neck position. [This message was edited by Toby Rider on 05 September 2005 at 12:55 PM.] |
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Terry Sneed Member From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA |
posted 05 September 2005 01:55 PM
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I vote Tele, and would love to have one, but I can't sell my Strat for scatt!! Had it on Ebay 3 times, and have had it on this forum 2 times, and still can't sell it. And I don't think $450 is to much to ask for a 2004 american made strat. one of the purtiest I've ever seen.  Funny how some people can sell anything, and others can't sell squat! Terry ------------------ |
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Bob Smith Member From: Allentown, New Jersey, USA |
posted 05 September 2005 03:07 PM
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G&L Asat ranks right up there with anything. Maybe a little more versatile, if you play other music styles, with your" country" band. They really have a nice bark .IMHO Happy Labor Day!! [This message was edited by Bob Smith on 05 September 2005 at 03:08 PM.] |
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LARRY COLE Member From: COLUMBUS, OHIO, USA |
posted 05 September 2005 09:40 PM
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Carvin Tele, 3 s/c pickups. Neck through body with ebony fingerboard, 25" scale, 24 frets. 5 way and mini toggle switch so you can get any p/u combination, even neck and bridge only. Carvin Nomad Vintage series tweed, 1-12, 50 watts all tube(EL-84 power tubes). ------------------ |
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Bob Martin Member From: Madison Tn |
posted 07 September 2005 03:08 PM
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I have played a strat since 1972, but in 1982 I had it rewired so that I could control the tone on the bridge PUP. Since that rewire I spend as much time on the bridge PUP as I do all of the rest. I do a little eq'ing when I'm on the bridge PUP thru my effects and I get a very satisfactory TeleWacker tone. I also know folks that have done the same to a Tele by adding the middle PUP so in complete honesty I would say that no one guitar is ever the perfect guitar for all applications. If Tele pickers add a middle PUP then they are saying that the Tele stock is not enough to make them happy and I am saying the same thing by modifying my strat as to make it sound like a tele. Thats just about objective as I can be. I'll bet others will see it differently :-) Bob |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 08 September 2005 05:15 AM
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I've got 'em all, with another Tele on the way, BUT---If I had to whittle it down to just one, desert island guitar, it'd be a Strat, just for versatility. |
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Bob Martin Member From: Madison Tn |
posted 08 September 2005 05:37 AM
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I agree with you steve they are much more versatile right out of the box than most other guitars. Bob |
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Charlie McDonald Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA |
posted 08 September 2005 06:04 AM
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Objectivity? Personality? My moonburst Danelectro, the only one of its kind. See them buttons? Duane Eddy slap-back, vibrato, with chorus and another button which I wish said 'Tele.' [This message was edited by Charlie McDonald on 11 September 2005 at 05:34 AM.] |
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James Morehead Member From: Durant, Oklahoma, USA |
posted 08 September 2005 07:11 AM
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Whats the perfect country guitar? Tele. That's the choice of Redd Volkaert. Works for me. I have a Tele, '91 sunburst/maple neck, stock fender pickups. Plug into a Fender twin, and I still am a lousy player! HA HA HA!!! |
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Jay Fagerlie Member From: Lotus, California, USA |
posted 08 September 2005 08:25 AM
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Hey Charlie, I have a Dano in Blueburst, mine is the baritone model. It is an awsome axe. The fx can get a little cheezy, but running it into two amps (it has separate dry and FX outputs, of course)is really fun. I have 4 Danos and love 'em all. In the belly dance band I play in, all I use is Danos....the baritone, an electric 12 with hammers (to simulate a hammered dulcimer) and an original '69 baby sitar. A very underrated line of guitars, in my opinion. |
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Charlie McDonald Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA |
posted 08 September 2005 10:41 AM
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Hey, Jay, A bari would be great. I love the idea of a twelve-string hammered. The effects are really quite good, and quiet. I use them for recording. No, it doesn't bite like a Tele, but I've heard mine compared to Mark Knopfler's Schecter for sweetness, and I agree. I think it would work very well for country. |
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Jeremy Steele Member From: Princeton, NJ USA |
posted 08 September 2005 11:03 AM
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I have one of those Danos, and I agree that the effects are cool, but I have a hard time keeping the thing in tune...plus, the pickup selector switch is in an awkward place (right where I strum). |
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Charles Turpin Member From: Mexico, Missouri, USA |
posted 10 September 2005 04:23 PM
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For about ten years i fell in love witha Peavy T-27.It had the perfect neck for me. It had wide frets but a slim neck built just right for speed. Then My second guitar for the old fashion country and rock was a Chariton Epiphone loaded down with gibson 740L strings something you can't even buy anymore.Then strings give you a different sound from anybody else yet i don't know I think it was in the gauges of the strings. They gave you that good thick sound when you needed it and done away with that twang. That was a big secret. But I also had a Gretch country gentlemen and I also had a Gretch Super Chet that i realy thought a lot about. Playing finger style like we did back in thoses days you realy needed that sound. But the Gretch Strings we put on them where the same sets that Chet offered hisself through there company. ------------------ |
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Jim Walker Member From: Florida Panhandle |
posted 11 September 2005 02:14 PM
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Wow, this thread is almost a year old. How did I miss it? I'm a Tele picker from way back. (15 Yrs) Well that's a long time ago to me. I've played many brands but I always go back to the Tele. In fact my x-wife claimed I loved my Candy Apple Red B-bender Telecaster more than her. She was quite right. What can I say? My Tele screams for me, not at me. ------------------ |
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Billy Henderson Member From: Portland, AR, USA |
posted 11 September 2005 03:07 PM
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Gosh I hope you tele guys are right. I found a solid piece of swamp ash from a southern swamp, big enough for a body. Took it to a custom shop where they planed it down and painted it a blue burst color. The grain shows through very nicely, it is beautiful! Now to find a neck and all the other parts. I am going with a maple neck I think, not sure about the pups yet. The body is very light and I am sure it will be the best country guitar ever built! Now we can lay this one to rest! Thanks to all |
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Clyde Mattocks Member From: North Carolina, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 10:37 PM
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I think for a lot of us who play steel, we're addicted to the brilliance and sustain of a Tele. On most of the guitar jobs I'm called for I take a stock 73 Tele. When I play with a Gospel group I take a Gibson 335 and with a swing group I jam with I take a stock Strat, playing mostly on the neck pickup with a lot of mud applied. Always, always an older Fender tube amp. The thing I love about Fender amps, especially Deluxe and Vibrolux is if you don't get a chance to check out the room or stage sound and have to hit it cold, just set bass and treble on 5 and go for it. You may have to tweak it after the first song but the amp is going to sound decent from the gitgo. |
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Kenny Burford Member From: Lexington, Missouri USA |
posted 26 September 2005 11:13 PM
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Tele and a Fender Twin my tools of choice. Second favorite country guitar early 1960s 335 Gibsons. It has a sound as warm as a mother's milk. Flat tops, D-35 Martin. If person owns all three of those guitars and a Fender Twin he's livin' the high life. |
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Mark Eaton Member From: Windsor, Sonoma County, CA |
posted 02 October 2005 10:22 PM
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My son's guitar teacher, who is one incredible picker, has an American Tele that he modified with Lace pickups designed for the Tele. That is one of the best sounding electric guitars I have ever heard, period. ------------------ [This message was edited by Mark Eaton on 02 October 2005 at 10:23 PM.] |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 03 October 2005 03:23 AM
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the real issue , is not which Guitar but rather.. Which Telecaster do I choose ? here's poor Matt, he just can't figure out which one to play, and even worse, theres 3 Tele's missing from the picture !
ya just can't have enough good Tele's.... [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 03 October 2005 at 03:36 AM.] |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 03 October 2005 04:45 AM
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Guys, Teles are great guitars, no question. So are Strats, Les Pauls, 335s, hollow bodies, and all the various guitars made by Gretsch and Richenbacker and Martin. But there's one guitar that nobody's mentioned that can outperform ALL of them. The Line 6 Variax. I do not have the words to tell you how amazed I am at this guitar. It really does do what all the hype says it does. I think it is the most important and significant development in electric guitar building since the advent of amplification. With it's 55 different settings, it can sound like any of the guitars that have been mentioned in this thread, as well as banjo, dobro, Coral sitar and 4 different 12 strings. And now, there's a device for it that lets you add your own sounds. But more important than how MANY different tones this guitar produces is the QUALITY of those tones. Some are better than others, but the good ones really sound great. And the Fender and other single coil pickup simulations don't have any hum. You all owe it to yourselves to check one out. |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 03 October 2005 06:05 AM
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Mike, you are correct, they are fine Instruments..even excellent... BUT.. BUT.. it has little or no VIBE..MOJO..whatever.. like a classic Tele'.... A few weeks back we did a pretty big Show at a County Fair.... We brought ALL THE TELECASTERS , 6 or 7 extra I think and put em' up there on the Stage..on stands..they looked magnificent ! They looked better than the Band ! |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 03 October 2005 06:33 AM
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"They looked better than the Band !" WELL, DUH!!!!!! I agree about the variax guitar, BTW. It may sound "kinda like" a lot of other stuff, but if I want to hear a banjo, I'll go get my banjo. Steel, dobro, Les Paul, whatever. And ESPECIALLY in a recording setting, where the gloves come off, so to speak. It's gotta be the real thing. JMHO. |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 03 October 2005 08:44 AM
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Actually Stephen, I usually use the real thing on my recordings too. When you compare the Variax with whatever it's emulating, you can hear subtle differences. There are some exceptions. One of them is the acoustic simulation. The J-200 setting on the Variax sounds better than my actual acoustic guitar. But bascally, the Variax is best suited for live performance. We've all seen guys bring more than one guitar to a gig. Having all the sounds at the flip of a switch is a lot more convenient than switching guitars, and you only have 6 strings to keep in tune insead of 60.
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pix1 Member From: WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A. |
posted 03 October 2005 12:18 PM
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Tele's! For those in the know! Robbie Bossert Don Rich Can't be wrong! |
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Mike Perlowin Member From: Los Angeles CA |
posted 04 October 2005 08:38 AM
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For those who insist it has to be a Tele or Strat.... |
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Zach Parish Member From: Mt. Pleasant, Arkansas, USA |
posted 04 October 2005 10:55 AM
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I have been playing a 52 Reissue Tele for the last few years. I just recently bought a G & L ASAT Special which is what I am using currently. It has a sweet sound through a Fender Twin. |
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Chris LeDrew Member From: Newfoundland, Canada |
posted 06 October 2005 09:26 PM
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned the B.C. Rich Warlock or the Hamer Slammer yet...... I couldn't resist. |
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