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Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:49 am
by Paco Del Stinko
Great letter, that. However, you certainly don't have to be a one or the other player. You can play both. Yay! I am certainly no master of either, but I've had my Stratocaster since '83, Tele since about '02. I love then both for, i guess, different reasons. Got my Les Paul in '89, but that's another story.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:34 am
by Sober
Well at least we can all agree that SGs suck.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:10 am
by ujnhunter
Sober wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:34 am
Well at least we can all agree that SGs suck.
Yeah... I don't really like my SG...
Don't really like any of the Tele's I've ever played either... but I admit that this thread is making me consider picking up one of those super cheap Glarry Tele's just to have one... and confirm that I don't like Tele's...
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:28 am
by Lunkhead
crumpart wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:30 pm
Can someone post a screenshot or something of whatever the letter is? The LA Times hates me because I live in Europe.
JB updated his post with a screenshot of the letter.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 12:38 pm
by crumpart
Lunkhead wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:28 am
crumpart wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:30 pm
Can someone post a screenshot or something of whatever the letter is? The LA Times hates me because I live in Europe.
JB updated his post with a screenshot of the letter.
Thanks!
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:21 pm
by Pigfarmer Jr
Sober wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:34 am
Well at least we can all agree that SGs suck.
SG's seem to be monty phython's holy grail movie in guitar form. It's almost comical trying to find "the one" and you're surely going to fail in your lifelong search. But if you are lucky or stubborn enough then you, too, can find a good one.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:08 pm
by WreckdoMelle
I love my SG. Do most of my tunes on one, which possibly explains a lot
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:55 am
by irwin
crumpart wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:30 pm
Can someone post a screenshot or something of whatever the letter is? The LA Times hates me because I live in Europe.
My browser did not show the image either, so I dug around the page source to find the actual image. While spelunking in the HTML, I found at the very bottom:
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which I thought was kinda cute. Anyway. Back to guitar discussions!
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:24 am
by crumpart
irwin wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:55 am
crumpart wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:30 pm
Can someone post a screenshot or something of whatever the letter is? The LA Times hates me because I live in Europe.
My browser did not show the image either, so I dug around the page source to find the actual image. While spelunking in the HTML, I found at the very bottom:
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</footer>
</body>
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which I thought was kinda cute. Anyway. Back to guitar discussions!
This is what I get from many pages of the LA Times, including this one.
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Aka: we want to track you and/or keep your details and not tell you why, but the big bad EU won’t let us. Wah!
I think all their newer stuff is GDPR compliant, but for a long time we couldn’t read anything from them.
Back to telecasters though!
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:37 am
by Paco Del Stinko
Funny, in all my years of doing whatever it is I do on guitar, I don't recall ever playing an SG. Although my very first electric looked like one, a red Kay. I have a picture of my pajamas wearing doofus self holding it, I will sadly not share here.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:15 am
by Paco Del Stinko
This week's fight song has both Telecaster and Stratocaster in it. I panned them hard left and right, Tele comes in first, then Strat, playing higher parts, second. Halfway through they reverse parts. I used the same amp and settings, compressor, mic and preamp, without any changes, just switched guitars. While not emphasizing each guitars respective tones, as in spank or sparkle or whatever, I did it just to do it, I reckon. Both guitars in the middle pickup position, often an unpopular one.
Not really meant as self promotion, but if interested, check out the tones on this week's tune, in a basic rock setting.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:06 pm
by Jerkatorium
The Crappiest Fender Telecaster:
Here's my Telecaster, which I bought used in 2014. It's the shittiest version ever made with the Fender name. The story I heard was that sometime in the 90s Fender had a bunch of extra parts they shipped to Mexico, and the factory slapped them together and labeled them "Squire Series". It does not have the through-body string ferrules that are standard for all other Fender Teles. A previous owner must have been a poseur who ineptly tried to 'distress' the body, and then apparently regretted it and filled in the chips with some sort of resin - an obvious, ham-handed effort that makes it embarrassing to take to the guitar shop. I have had to take this to the local guitar shop [Guitar Merchant, RIP] twice; both times the bridge pickup had stopped working due to the crappy wiring.
Still, I love love love this guitar, and I used it on most of Jerkatorium's recordings. It sounds great, it feels great, and every time I've tried to switch to a different guitar I eventually came limping back to this dumb cheap Telecaster.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:57 pm
by Pigfarmer Jr
I, for one, love your tele. It has life. Don’t ever part ways with it. And if you do, please sell it to me.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:21 am
by ujnhunter
I'm here...
Waiting for mo's post to follow now that I've brought this thread back to life...
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:33 pm
by Lunkhead
Ooh, wow that one looks very tasty. I love the inlays, and the wood/finish with the black pick guard.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:39 am
by ujnhunter
Lunkhead wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:33 pm
Ooh, wow that one looks very tasty. I love the inlays, and the wood/finish with the black pick guard.
It does. The inlays are really cool and even the little side inlay at the 7th fret, which I only noticed when I was playing it myself and thought that was a cool little detail. This is perfect for me, as someone who doesn't use the "tone knob" (it's always full up...) this guitar doesn't even have a pesky tone knob! Just a volume and pickup selector (if you want less "tone" just use the useless neck pickup after all...)
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:46 am
by Paco Del Stinko
That is a handsome guitar, love the look and set-up, but got-dang, that thing needs a tone knob. C'mon!
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:50 am
by Lunkhead
I have to confess, I never use my tone knobs either. I just keep 'em dimed. If I want a darker tone I just use the neck pick.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:58 am
by Lunkhead
Oh yeah, while I'm here, I got a new Tele back in May. Behold, the Fender Parallel Universe Volume II Troublemaker Tele Deluxe in Olympic White, which is like a Tele version of a Les Paul Custom. The pickups are Fender "Double Tap" humbuckers which can operate in single-coil mode (for a more traditional Tele sound) with no volume drop. She plays like a dream and sings like an angel!
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Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:59 pm
by sleepysilverdoor
Man if I had to get another electric (probably won't anytime soon cause guitars are expensive and I'm still seriously loving my Sterling JP157), a Telecaster would be the way to go. I just love that tone. Okay, I like Les Pauls too.
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:13 am
by Paco Del Stinko
Well Sleepy, if you'd like both a Telecaster and a Les Paul, I reckon that Lunks guitar would be both, really. That thing is beautiful and must have oodles of tonal options. Jealous!
Now experiment with those tone knobs!
Re: Telecasters of Song Fight!
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 11:47 pm
by jack
Jimmy Page played the lead on "Stairway to Heaven" on a 1959 Telecaster given to him by Jeff Beck when he joined the Yardbirds. I love my Strat but I love Teles too.