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Billy Henderson Member From: Portland, AR, USA |
posted 28 November 2004 01:21 PM
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Which guitar with what set up (electric) do you think is the best all around guitar for country, new and old and Rockabilly too? |
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John Rosett Member From: Graham, NC USA |
posted 28 November 2004 02:22 PM
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well, i'm using a fender '52 reissue telecaster through a late '70's vibrolux reverb with two 10" speakers. i'm not using any effects. it sounds great for hard core honky tonk, western swing, rockabilly, etc. i used to play a '67 gretsch tennessean, and was also great for all of the above. john |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 28 November 2004 04:04 PM
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well there's really only three types of guitar players out there.. Tele' players this should get things going ! I'm in the 52RI club with a Hot Rod Deville 2x12 60 watt'er ok, I can take it...let me have it.. t [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 28 November 2004 at 04:05 PM.] |
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Craig A Davidson Member From: Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA |
posted 28 November 2004 05:30 PM
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Tele by far although a 335 comes close. |
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Leslie Ehrlich Member From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
posted 28 November 2004 06:21 PM
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A Gretsch hollow body electric. |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 05:17 AM
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Well, I like my Gibson ES-175 for classic country, since Grady, Hank, Billy, Harold, and some more guys, were playing hollow-bodied guitars in the late 50's, on all them classic tunes. I have a Telecaster, but I usually play it with delay and compression, so it sounds like a Telecaster, and not like a Jimmy Bryant record. My Strats, and the Les Paul, show up at some gigs, but not as often as they used to be...Guess that's what happens when you're a wannabe has-been. But I really like my '55 Martin D-28. THAT'S a country guitar! |
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David Mason Member From: Cambridge, MD, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 06:12 AM
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There's a discernible move among the big boys towards Telecasters with a third pickup, like a Strat. |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 06:15 AM
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David, you mean, some guys wanna sound DIFFERENT??? WHADDA they think they're doing, being CREATIVE???? |
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Shaan Shirazi Member From: Austin, TX, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 06:23 AM
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I'm from the Telecaster through a late 70's Vibrolux school too. I also add a little BOSS Compression and Analog Delay. ------------------ |
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Per Berner Member From: Skövde, Sweden |
posted 29 November 2004 07:06 AM
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Telecaster, what else? I built mine with three pickups and a 5-way switch – bridge/bridge&middle/bridge&neck/middle&neck or neck pickup. Classic Tele bite plus some nice Strat flavors. Always with a little bit of Boss CS-2 compression. Locking Schaller ebony button tuners, bakelite pickguard, vintage pickups - and the back is also bookmatched curly birdseye maple. Yum!   [This message was edited by Per Berner on 29 November 2004 at 08:14 AM.] [This message was edited by Per Berner on 29 November 2004 at 11:21 PM.] |
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Erv Niehaus Member From: Litchfield, MN, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 07:15 AM
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Leave it to a Swede to come up with an outstanding guitar!!! Erv |
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CrowBear Schmitt Member From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France |
posted 29 November 2004 07:36 AM
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Ya Ho !  indeed Erv, them left handed Norsemen better stick to road buildin'.... |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 29 November 2004 09:49 AM
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My favorite guitar for all 'round playing is an '83 top loader Tele with 3 pickups. It has Gibson mini-humbuckers from an old Les Paul Deluxe in the neck and middle slots and a Seymore/Duncan quarter pounder single coil at the bridge position. I like the neck and bridge combination for rock-a-billy and this guitar does it great. I do some gigs with an Elvis impersonator and this guitar is great for the old Scotty Moore Sun record stuff. I don't like 5 way switches so I have 3 mini toggles to turn on/off each pickup. In my Nashville Deluxe Tele I replaced the 5 way switch with a normal 3 way and added a mini-toggle between the volume and tone knobs to turn on/off the middle pickup.......Have a good 'un..JH |
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Billy Henderson Member From: Portland, AR, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 11:31 AM
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Didn't see anyone mention a b bender. Why not a bender on your tele? |
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Kevin Hatton Member From: Amherst, N.Y. |
posted 29 November 2004 11:57 AM
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I agree. For me it would be a Tele with a bender. Gretch would be also there as a second guitar. |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 29 November 2004 04:25 PM
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Tele. [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 29 November 2004 at 07:52 PM.] |
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Jim Peters Member From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
posted 29 November 2004 05:34 PM
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I vote Tele, I have 2, one a Nashville Tele, bone stock, the other a Stew Mac Ash body, Warmoth strat neck, Epiphone mini neck pu, Seymore Duncan bridge, and Carvin stacked middle Pu. That mini is a killer neck PU. I play thru a Deluxe or Reverfend Hellhound, but 99% is Nashville tele thru Deluxe, with a little Ts9 for distortion. JP |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 30 November 2004 02:55 AM
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I did buy one of the Fender "Benders" when they came on the market mid 90's or so..It had the Parsons /Green I believe..man it was heavy ! I played it for about 2 years..and just when I was gettin' those B bends down.. I traded it for a Strat ... I should have kept it because I sold the Strat soon after as well. other than being heavy it was a fine playing axe, a bit on the bright side though. But all in all it worked out fine because at the end of the day with all my Horse trading I ended up with my favorite Tele' of all time, being the 1989/52RI.. I also acquired a 50's classic with Noiseless PUPS which I added a B5 Bigsby to and a mid 80's MIJ Squire which is a real fine player too...where I added a HB'ker in the neck position. And I also picked up a 1 piece Ash Body which will end the life of probably the 50's classic as it is now... I guess this stuff never ends.. t [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 30 November 2004 at 03:02 AM.] |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 30 November 2004 04:59 AM
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Hey Billy, as far as B-Benders go I've got a couple of 'em. My main Tele I described before has a HipShot unit which raises the 2nd string to C# and a flip lever which lowers the 5th string A to G. Also the guitar has Keith/Scruggs tuners on strings 1 & 6 to lower them to D. Those along with the flip lever on string 5 gives me an open G chord all the way across. Also I have an old Ibanez Artist solid body which has a Bigsby Palm Pedal to raise the 2nd and 3rd strings a whole tone each. This guitar also has Keith/Scruggs tuners on all 6 strings to lower them a whole tone each except for the 3rd string which only goes a half tone. With this one I can get open G, open D, DADGAD, dropped D, double dropped D, and other nice stuff. I use this guitar a lot for slide so the strings are a little heavier and the action just a tad higher than my main guitar. Have a good 'un..JH ------------------ |
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Don Joslin Member From: Trapped in Minnesota and longing for New Mexico |
posted 30 November 2004 06:18 AM
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About a year and a half ago I decided to quit trying to be Joe Satriani and go back to playing country and swing. The first thing I did was sell my hot rod Jackson and buy an American Tele. Don ------------------ |
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Howard Tate Member From: Leesville, Louisiana, USA |
posted 30 November 2004 10:23 AM
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I like teles very much, played one for years, but now I would not trade my '71 Les Paul Recording for anything. The low impedence p.u.s and many controls, including decad control which changes the value of the caps, gives me a lot of different sounds. I've used it since the mid seventies and have never seen another on a bandstand. ------------------ |
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Brett Day Member From: Greer, SC, USA |
posted 30 November 2004 10:54 AM
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The Gibson guitar is a great country guitar. Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel |
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Richard Bass Member From: Hendersonville, Tn |
posted 30 November 2004 12:22 PM
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At the start of my career I used a Gibson 335, this was the early to mid 60's. Then I went to a Tele and finally a Tele w/3 pickups. All were great guitars. Richard |
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Jesse Harris Member From: Los Angeles, California, USA |
posted 30 November 2004 05:12 PM
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come on fellas, I understand your drive to be open minded, but lets keep it real, with few exceptions its all about Teles and Fender amps. the MIM 50s classic os a great country guitar for around 500, much more of a twangy guitar than the am standards which are twanged-down to appeal to a wider array of players. In my opinion its hard to get good twang without the ashtray bridge and 3 saddles, however it doesnt seem like brent mason has any trouble with his american standard bridge |
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Steinar Gregertsen Member From: Arendal, Norway |
posted 30 November 2004 05:25 PM
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After being a Strat man for almost 30 years I switched to a Tele half a year ago. Never looked back, and I use it for all my guitar work. It may be a 'simple' guitar but it's more versatile than it pretends to be... Steinar ------------------ |
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Darvin Willhoite Member From: Leander, Tx. USA |
posted 30 November 2004 06:55 PM
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Speaking of Brent Mason, I just got the Players DVD a few days ago and on a couple of songs, Brent played a Peavey Reactor AX. I couldn't tell a nickles worth of difference in the sound of it and his old primered Tele. His Reactor looked to be stock, with the original double blade pickups. I have one of these and it plays and sounds as good as my USA Tele Nashville Deluxe , and the quality is as good also. The Reactor AX's come up on Ebay quite often for $150 to $200. ------------------ |
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D Schubert Member From: Columbia, MO, USA |
posted 30 November 2004 07:05 PM
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First choice: Tele & Fender tube amp. My personal preference is 3-saddle bridge, brass saddle, no extra caps or resistors, 500 ohm pots, maple board, ash body, 0.010/0.046 string gage, strings-thru-body, not a toploader. Second choice: something that imitates the sound of a Tele & Fender tube amp. Alternate: I have one Tele set up as an Esquire. Removed the neck pickup, and re-wired 3-way switch in 50's fashion. Not a huge selection of tones, but some really good ones. Lack of magnetic pull on the strings around the 24th fret lets 'em ring out even longer...didn't believe it until I tried it for myself. |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 01 December 2004 02:38 AM
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You got a Tele neck with 24 frets??? |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 01 December 2004 04:24 AM
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As far as Rockabilly goes, Ibanez has a guitar out that works fantastic for that type of music. I bought one about a year ago after reading the rave reviews in Guitar Player magazine (July '03). The guitars are the Ibanez Artcore series. I have a blue one, just like the model GP reviewed which is a thin line, single cutaway, F-hole, double humbucker model with a Bigsby style vibrato. These guitars go for $369.00 at Guitar Center or Musicians Friend and are one helluva deal. GP magazine stated that they couldn't believe the quality of the guitar for the low bucks. At the Elvis festival in Va. Beach this summer I used mine in a 50's set of all Sun Record Presley tunes. I just used an old Ibanez analog delay with a Fender DeVille 2-12 amp and the old Scotty Moore sound came right out. If you're looking for a jazz box or something to play western swing or rockabilly these are hard to beat. The vibrato arm on mine works as good as any Bigsby I've ever seen. Also it has a roller bridge on the vibrato model....Have a good 'un..JH ------------------ |
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Dan Sawyer Member From: Studio City, California, USA |
posted 01 December 2004 11:59 AM
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The Tele has always been number one. But, i have to put a word in for the Super 400. Earlier this year i finally got to play a 1960s Gibson Super 400 with flatwound strings. Now i know why Merle Travis, Joe Maphis, etc loved to play this guitar. The bridge pickup sounds unbelievable! This guitar is a great choice for vintage country. BTW, the Super 400 has a long scale of 25.5 inches, unlike 335s, les pauls, etc which are 24.75. |
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Joey Ace Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada |
posted 01 December 2004 12:14 PM
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If there was a Country Guitar Army every new recruit would be issued a Tele. |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 01 December 2004 01:53 PM
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A Country Guitar Army.. Uhhmm..now there's something I've never heard of before.. Stephen, I added 3 frets to my FENDER Tele's with Duck Tape..the bad news is that if you bend a note the glue from the tape makes the string stick to the fretboard and the note doesn't return.. I call it Jazz.. I guess I'm just a private in the Country Guitar Army. t [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 01 December 2004 at 01:55 PM.] |
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D Schubert Member From: Columbia, MO, USA |
posted 01 December 2004 02:11 PM
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clarify! -- where the 24th fret would be if there was one, about where the neck pickup lays |
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Dan Sawyer Member From: Studio City, California, USA |
posted 01 December 2004 07:52 PM
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Maybe he means 22 frets instead of the standard 21? |
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Dan Sawyer Member From: Studio City, California, USA |
posted 01 December 2004 07:53 PM
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Maybe he means 22 frets instead of the standard 21? |
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Alvin Blaine Member From: Sandy Valley, Nevada, USA |
posted 02 December 2004 01:41 AM
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I believe that D Schubert is talking about where a Tele neck pickup is, right about where the 24th fret would be. Some folks claim that having the magnetic pull of the pickup right under the strings, where an harmonic is, deadens the sustain of the string. That's why some say that an Esquire with just a bridge pickup has a clearer tone and better sustain. Then on the other hand having the neck pickup under the 24th fret harmonic is what helps make the Telecaster such a great guitar for that staccato chicken picken' sound. [This message was edited by Alvin Blaine on 02 December 2004 at 01:44 AM.] |
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Alvin Blaine Member From: Sandy Valley, Nevada, USA |
posted 02 December 2004 01:43 AM
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OH, and for the best over all guitar. My first choice would be a Tele. Second would be a Tele. Third a Tele. [This message was edited by Alvin Blaine on 02 December 2004 at 01:50 AM.] |
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Tony Prior Member From: Charlotte NC |
posted 02 December 2004 02:08 AM
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And the proof that the Tele is the #1 guitar is this: Kenny Chesney is regularly seen with a Les Paul on stage and in his video's.. there it is, we can close the thread now.. t [This message was edited by Tony Prior on 02 December 2004 at 02:08 AM.] |
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Jussi Huhtakangas Member From: Helsinki, Finland |
posted 02 December 2004 06:15 AM
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Here's some "statistical" info of the guitars/players on classic 50's rockabilly recordings: -Scotty Moore: Gibsons ... and the list goes on. Seems like no brand over the other, all great sounding stuff. |
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Larry King Member From: Watts, Oklahoma, USA |
posted 02 December 2004 06:49 AM
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To Jussi....I think you'd better add Gibson to Chet's guitars |
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