Lordhenley
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Led Zep 1, the sound of Pagey's Telecaster on this was awesome
Is this the best Telecaster sound?
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Fretless Eric
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The thread still lives! I totally agree with the Wilko recommendations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyr__kGhUC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyr__kGhUC0
demotivated
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Either 'Tall in the saddle' by Joan Armatrading [another Jerry Donahue solo] or 'Drowning on dry land' by Roy Buchanan
kasperhauser
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foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
As it's still going......
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bob atherton
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+1, great tone.
At a HUGE tangent, I tried a Fender Road Worn Jazz Bass today. I've owned quite a few J's in my time but this one had it all. Great tone, playability and vibe. Not too sure about the RW finnish but liked the nitro rather than poly. My Musicman Stingray will be up for sale soon. The Road Worn J has won me over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyjtW-rvWoQ
the best......................
the best......................
kasperhauser
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Page himself stated that 75% of his sound came from the custom Tone Bender box. So there was a Tele involved, but what came out wasn't strictly a "Tele sound". Great tone, though, fo' sho'.
I've got a couple of Ryan Adams albums and Whiskeytown albums where the Tele sound is just peaking to where I like it - but obviously it's personal taste.
Since I got my Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic I had my Cornell amp re-valved with 6L6 tubes to get that maximum treble saturation - and that's my perfect Tele sound; when the extreme treble breaks up and saturates whilst everything beneath is still crystal clear and just beginning to crunch. I played with my old band late last year and it wasn't the sound they were after at all and I had to switch things around, but then what they were doing was not my bag either. They still think it's 1982.
I've retired my Strats now and only go to my Nocaster and my Gibson Les Paul 2009 '58 Historic which is the result of trying dozens of the damn things for probably more than two years to find the right one. I have it now.
When the sound of a Tele reaches those real heights with a cooking Fender tweed, it's like angels singing (okay, it's not a gentle thing having an ice-pick down your earhole, but you know what I mean). You can keep the Les Paul when that happens (like the Roy Buchanan clip at 2.13).
Since I got my Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic I had my Cornell amp re-valved with 6L6 tubes to get that maximum treble saturation - and that's my perfect Tele sound; when the extreme treble breaks up and saturates whilst everything beneath is still crystal clear and just beginning to crunch. I played with my old band late last year and it wasn't the sound they were after at all and I had to switch things around, but then what they were doing was not my bag either. They still think it's 1982.
I've retired my Strats now and only go to my Nocaster and my Gibson Les Paul 2009 '58 Historic which is the result of trying dozens of the damn things for probably more than two years to find the right one. I have it now.
When the sound of a Tele reaches those real heights with a cooking Fender tweed, it's like angels singing (okay, it's not a gentle thing having an ice-pick down your earhole, but you know what I mean). You can keep the Les Paul when that happens (like the Roy Buchanan clip at 2.13).
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
Is that Ed "eDFROMOHIO" Crawford, formerly of fIREHOSE, on lead guitar?
1000RPM
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+1, great tone.
At a HUGE tangent, I tried a Fender Road Worn Jazz Bass today. I've owned quite a few J's in my time but this one had it all. Great tone, playability and vibe. Not too sure about the RW finnish but liked the nitro rather than poly. My Musicman Stingray will be up for sale soon. The Road Worn J has won me over.
Nothing to do with Teles, but I love the Jazz Bass too. i've got a brace - first generation Squire (assembled in Japan using US parts in 1984) which has the lowest, softest action of any bass I've played ever, and a Surf Blue fender '90 reissue, complete with full chrome fittings and a custom shop flame red scratch plate (Hank Marvin was just in front of me at the service desk when I had it fitted at the fender custom shop up town), which just looks and plays ridiculously cool.
bottleneck
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not the best track for it, but this shows how telecasters can 'cut' in a way strats just cant..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXO5AEVxw5k
at least when uncle albert has a go they can..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXO5AEVxw5k
at least when uncle albert has a go they can..
Bloody Hell Yank! You're good!
I do believe you are right. He was only there for five minutes.
It's actually extremely difficult to know who was in Whiskeytown at any given moment and one of the most unlikely guitarists who passed through was James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins.
kasperhauser
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Albert had THE BEST timing, period. I'm convinced he just heard songs in a completely different way than the rest of us.
Cheese
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Will I get stoned if I say that I find this sound ear-crashingly painful ? I had to turn it off, phew.
To me, a Tele sounds good when it's about like Keef's on All Down The Line (Exile). Or Albert Collins for solo stuff.
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