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I saw him with that guitar recently at Truck Festival. I can't say for the quality of the guitar but he was terrible.

Pricey at £720. You could buy 2 Squier Classic Vibes for that and put in the SD humbuckers.

johnnyseven wrote:Pricey at £720.

Are'nt they all lately? I may have been out of touch for a while but looking at Fender 'alternative designs' alone on Thomann (which are usually the cheapest).. i was shocked.

Anyway, Coxon is one of my fave Tele players, but i dont see the point in this model, like many other sigs

Shocking stuff.

I thought it would have had a white pickguard, any time I've seen him play he's used what looks like this Tele but without the tort...

I would be interested in playing one....I like Coxon's tones and that's a pretty Telecaster.

Too bad it's UK only

There’s been nowhere near the amount of interest in this thread as I thought there would be considering how big an influence this guy must have been on most of our playing... well maybe only the Brits playing not sure how big blur were in America

dezb1 wrote:There’s been nowhere near the amount of interest in this thread as I thought there would be considering how big an influence this guy must have been on most of our playing... well maybe only the Brits playing not sure how big blur were in America

In the U.S. people only know "song 2", and these days most people probably dont even know that. Also, Oasis was never very popular in the U.S., although these days the average douchebag will still play "wonderwall" on an acoustic in a last ditch attempt to get laid at an after party.

would agree with all that JJ said.... Oasis was much bigger than Blur was here aswell

it looks like robbie's american standard with a PAF in the neck.

I don't quite get Teles with neck HBs. Which is weird, since I wanted one for a while. Teles have a distinctive bridge sound so you can't get rid of that, I wanted to do some Daniel Ash kind of shit. But I was also listening to Kyuss, Electric Wizard at the tone which is generally all about the neck humbucker. So for this particular post punk/stoner combination, it makes sense.

I suppose the neck of a Tele has never been remarkable, so you "May as well" throw a HB in there. The problem is except for strumming full chords, I find the bridge pickup in a lot of Teles obnoxious for cleans, at least pure cleans. The neck on my Tele, a GFS Fatbody pickup, is actually pretty decent, if a little boomy, one of the prettiest neck pickups I've heard.

I guess it's a similar dichotomy but for "vintage" tones - clangy 50s/60s Rock'n'roll tones in the bridge, but a meaty neck pickup to coax those vintage fuzzy tones out of amps that didn't get that dirty on Single Coils without the help of a pedal.

Or is there some other reason for it?

dezb1 wrote:There’s been nowhere near the amount of interest in this thread as I thought there would be considering how big an influence this guy must have been on most of our playing... well maybe only the Brits playing not sure how big blur were in America

Before "Song 2", I usually only heard Blur either on college radio stations or on 120 Minutes on MTV. I didn't really get into them until Parklife, although I did remember hearing songs from Leisure on the local college stations. Was totally unaware of the second album until years later.

Blur had a minor hit with Girls and Boys. Then Song 2 was (still is) huge. I remember the story that Song 2 was either written as a parody of grunge, or was written as a joke to show how easy it was to write a big US hit.

Most people over here only know Damon from Gorillaz.

In any discussion of one hit wonders of the 90s, blur and oasis always come up, in which case I always have to end up arguing that neither one is.

JJLipton wrote: Also, Oasis was never very popular in the U.S., although these days the average douchebag will still play "wonderwall" on an acoustic in a last ditch attempt to get laid at an after party.

Yes, mostly douchebags play wonderwall at acoustic open mic nights, but Oasis was the first band that I remember everybody I knew saying was their favorite band.

I remember the non-stop comparisons of Oasis to the Beatles.

Billy3000 wrote:

JJLipton wrote: Also, Oasis was never very popular in the U.S., although these days the average douchebag will still play "wonderwall" on an acoustic in a last ditch attempt to get laid at an after party.

Yes, mostly douchebags play wonderwall at acoustic open mic nights, but Oasis was the first band that I remember everybody I knew saying was their favorite band.

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robroe wrote:

Billy3000 wrote:

JJLipton wrote: Also, Oasis was never very popular in the U.S., although these days the average douchebag will still play "wonderwall" on an acoustic in a last ditch attempt to get laid at an after party.

Yes, mostly douchebags play wonderwall at acoustic open mic nights, but Oasis was the first band that I remember everybody I knew saying was their favorite band.

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