Favorite Tele players?

[sikoniko]

Andy Taylor
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[sikoniko]

If Tele 'style' guitars count, then John mcgeoch
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[sikoniko]

John frusciante
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[Red Baron]

Robben Ford is my #1 Tele axeman... but Greg Koch is the most entertaining :yah

 

[Cogswell]

Robin does hang out in Tele Territory a bunch it seems

 

[Xpensive Wino]

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[Cogswell]

That was pretty amazing right there

 

[slimdave]

The one and only Bill Frisell..!

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Thanks for sharing. For me that was extraordinary!

 

[frankjohnson]

Don't Forget Bob Margolin!!!

 

[Hot_Snake]

Tom Morello and Steve Cropper for me !

 

[Texas Blues]

Muddy!

Skip to the 13:00 minute mark for the hotness.

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[krapac]

Thanks for sharing. For me that was extraordinary!

Thank you too, i like the way he think about music and his warm enchanting sound.

 

[illinimax]

Hellecasters = Jerry Donahue, Will Ray and John Jorgenson

 

[j45]

Sad all we have is crummy things like this of Clarence White playing a his amazing invention B-Bender Telecaster. There are precious few photos of him as well. Bluegrass legend Tony Rice called him the greatest flat picker to ever live ...kind of an emotional statement and hard to pick a "greatest" of anything but he invented much is what is done on Tele's today. This recording was supposedly taken backstage before soundcheck off the mixingf board of Clarence "noodling" in the 1960's. Get past the first 40 seconds of "noodling" and hear some truly brilliant Tele playing ...way ahead of his time. None better... ever ....maybe never.... IMO. Shame he wasn't properly filmed in his original "B-Bender Tele" era before his tragic death. One of very few real guitar genius IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XNjxCm_fA

I'd rather listen to this mindless "fooling around" than half the stuff around here.

 

[j45]

Just saw this after posting above...I took the photo that appears from 2:29 - 3:04 in this video on my 15th birthday. It was at the N.O. Pop Festival ..1969...held in Prairieville, La. I had driven down that afternoon with some high school buddies, at that time I could do a respectable Clapton...note for note most of his "live" Cream solos, Hendrix, Beck, etc... I lived with a guitar on my chest but that was a day I'd never forget. Good Lord have mercy.....I couldn't make heads or tails of what was coming from this man's hands and it was almost as if an alien had landed right in front of my eyes when the Byrds took the stage and I heard that Telecaster with the big ass, giant banjo tuning peg sticking out on top. Didn't know there was such a thing as a B Bender...it was the only one in existence at the time but to this day have not been captivated by another guitarist like him. I'll say it again, I believe he is first thought, the definitive Tele player, CW didn't get the hype and press like the British guitar slingers back then but I don't think there was a player out there at the time that could do what he was doing... pretty sure of it.... mainly because no one had that magic guitar... I ran across something on the internet about 10 years ago about a foundation for Clarence White that was raising funds for the baby daughter he left behind when he was killed shortly after that photo I took. I got in touch with her on the internet and she was blown away to find a new photo of her father with his Telecaster since there were already so few.. especially one that close. I think she said there were only a dozen or two that they had been able to locate and most were poor quality. I sent it to her and it has been featured on many websites and magazines. I still have the original print and negative which is in color. The photo is much larger un-cropped and shows the scaffolding and his amp, cord, etc... I'll dig it up and post a hi res version of Clarence and his legendary B Bender Telecaster.

photo appears at 2:29 of this clip:

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[guitplayer]

Roy Buchanan. eace2

oh yeah!!:yah

 

[DMartini]

Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton, Johnny Greenwood & Robben Ford

 

[yeti]

I dig all the usual suspects and a few more but the thing that makes a Tele so appealing to me is that when I pick it up I don't think about playing like Albert Lee or Roy Buchanan, etc. Instead it's a direct connection to what I sound like, for better or worse. It doesn't force any template or style, it doesn't really have a personality other than what you put into it. That's why you can play anything with it. In the end that's why I don't have a favorite Tele player, if that makes any sense.

 

[Minibucker]

The Iceman

 

[toxpert]

Well...it's a "Tele" sort of....

Junior Brown

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