all the players that made me want a Tele:

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:03 am

Nobody has mentioned Muddy Waters yet? Shame, shortscale.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:04 am

silly_rabbit_band wrote:
paul_ wrote: I'm pretty sure that's the same tele as the Led Zep I one. I think he just decorated it.
Maybe your right, but I could have sworn it was a blonde finish.

Could've been, but given the huge red dragon thing on it he could have painted the whole thing.

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:04 am

jimmy page.

WANT.

now i have a 72 tele custom, reissue of course.

Ty · Post by Ty » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:05 am

Also I thought this was the Fonz at first.

Oh and what about Pete Townshend?
He used Tele shaped guitars built by Schecter in the 80's.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:07 am

silly_rabbit_band wrote: Oh and what about Pete Townshend?
He used Tele shaped guitars built by Schecter in the 80's.

And fender teles in the 60s.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:09 am

and his favorite 52'.
Everyone posted all the ones i was about to list.

Good Choices though.

Ty · Post by Ty » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:11 am

paul_ wrote:
silly_rabbit_band wrote: Oh and what about Pete Townshend?
He used Tele shaped guitars built by Schecter in the 80's.
And fender teles in the 60s.

I need to study up on tele users.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:28 am

Mo Rocca wrote:

I was gonna put Muddy Waters but I happen to know he did all his best stuff with a Gibson Goldtop.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:32 am

I still associate him with a tele though.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:41 am

BacchusPaul wrote:I still associate him with a tele though.

Well when he got big pub and mainstream coverage cause of the English he had a tele, but he was not at his best guitar playing wise at that time. In his prime he cut the majority of his great material with an electrified archtop for his early stuff and Gibson Goldtop with the trapeze tailpiece for my favorite stuff.

He also played a Guild Thunderbird later on, cause Guild payed him.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:11 am

Shit, that reminds me.

Didn't make me want a tele, but DID make me want a Les Paul (and that totally counts), and cut a lot of classic business on his white tele in his early days.

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Gibson just released an "inspired by" relic'd Les Paul based on that one in the pic for $15,000 (albeit without the neck binding damage). Good luck with those, guys... I'm sure it's the perfect time to market a "mike bloomfield (who??) signature-but-not-quite" guitar for that kind of cash.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:04 am

jcyphe wrote:
BacchusPaul wrote:I still associate him with a tele though.
Well when he got big pub and mainstream coverage cause of the English he had a tele, but he was not at his best guitar playing wise at that time. In his prime he cut the majority of his great material with an electrified archtop for his early stuff and Gibson Goldtop with the trapeze tailpiece for my favorite stuff.
He also played a Guild Thunderbird later on, cause Guild payed him.

I suppose this is probably a case of Fender stepping in and 'baggsying' dead musicians before anyone else does, so that now I'll always think of him when I think of teles (and vice-versa).

Did you know that Mozart played a tele?

NBarnes21 · Post by **NBarnes21** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:05 am

It was Greenwood for me too

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:19 am

albert collins was the first person to make we want a tele. i still want that blonde tele with a HB in the neck, can't do the white guard though, has to be black.

also joe strummer and i still love that rosewood tele george harrison had.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:27 am

For me it was Graham.

Seemed to always ProCo his twin Plexis until they just about exploded, with Jimi riffs and stuffy chords galore, yet so much an old school punk player at times. Best mated with a Tele.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:54 am

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:57 am

I think Chrissie was one of the 1st people I can remember seeing in concert playing a Telecaster.

Fibus · Post by **Fibus** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:45 am

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:10 am

SLOAN

Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:11 am

Big Time.