Telecasters Are Just Better Than Other Guitars

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[barbmelle]

The joy of a Telecaster is that in elegance of simplicity, it is exactly enough to allow an artist to express the music in any genre'.

[sammyrothrock]

When I was a kid I snubbed the telecaster I thought I don't want some twangy country sounding thang for Jazz and even blues but, 50 years later I own 5 and absolutely love each of them ! They are a Swiss army knife of electric guitars!

They have proven themselves the test of time ! Lightweight, comfortable, and in the right hands can cover alot of ground !!! Imagine Leo designing the first solid body electric guitar back then in 52? Thanks Leo Fender for all the musical inspiration!!

[dannycia]

I bought my Telecaster 20 years ago. It was a USA Standard. At that time, I was still young and played in bands. There was a vibrant local music scene back then. The guitar looks battered, but to this day, it's still my favorite guitar.

[bencunningham]

My first electric guitar was a Fender made in Mexico standard Tele that I put a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail in the bridge pick up

[scottsodyssey]

My 1994 American Standard Telecaster is now 30yrs old and I proudly refer to it as vintage. I'm the original owner. I've had my fair share of guitars come and go but the one constant is my 94 Tele. I will leave it to my son.

[tlb]

My first gigging guitar was a new 1981 Aria Pro II Thor Sound Series TS-400.
My older brother had started a band and one of the guitar players quit.
Dad nudged me to take his place. I did, but was playing an off brand guitar.
Dad bought many used instruments during our childhood and allowed us to explore them. Music was big in our family.
When my debut with the band went well, Dad asked if I wanted to go for a drive. We wound up at a music store where he asked if there were any guitars I liked.
Of course, I opted immediately for the flourescent green, oddly shaped, hair band model on the wall. Quickly seeing it's flaws, I asked to see the Aria.
It felt perfect in my hands. Double cutaway with 24 frets. Dual humbuckers with coil split and phase reverse switches. Hard shell case. I loved it.
Dad bought it and, I believe, paid $240 for it.
I played it for 21 years. When a saddle finally broke I laid it aside and bought a G&L Asat Classic which was essentially a tele.
I've now been performing live for 42 years. I have a few guitars, including my workhorse, my Music Man Cutlass RS HSS. And I still have the Aria.
I recently had the frets polished, replaced the nut, and installed titanium saddles. I also installed a matching set of Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbuckers.
Thelma Lou, my name for it, is back on stage again as my backup. I play it from time to time and it WAILS.
And the sticker covered hard shell case is still strong as ever.

[lazvt]

Just got my 10th Tele today....an AIO TC4. About what I expected...great set up, perfectly set up frets/fret ends/action/relief, superb playability, full-size pots, ebony fretboard, brass saddles, bone nut, locking tuners....all fine....on a body finish that is not super high QA (but for $390 just fine)...but in today's 'relic' world...how important is a perfect finish? Anyway, ...the pups are decent (perhaps a bit better than Rosewell or CV50). Gonna drop in a used set of '51 CS Nocasters... Will it compete with my CS Fender Tele...nope...will I love it just the same? Most likely.

[mknewlan]

My 1st guitar was a 2004 Squier affinity with a warped neck. Still have her, new neck alnico 5 single coils and locking tuners. She’s alright.

[JordanKilliard]

My first electric guitar was a 1996 Mexican Tele. The choice was based entirely on my love of Radiohead 😂
Two years later in 1998 I got myself an American Tele with a Little '59 in the bridge and a PAF in the neck.

Doesn't matter whatever other guitar I play, the Tele just feels like "home"

[shaunw]

Telecasters just seem to do everything.

[joeblankenship]

My first guitar was an Alvarez acoustic. Played that for a year, then I got an Affinity Squier Strat. Played that for a few years, then I got a '96 American Strat that I've been playing for 20+ years. I wish I had room in my budget for a Tele. It never fails though, whenever I start putting a little money aside for a new guitar toy, something comes along to eat it up.

[jacobpugh]

Awesome Tele, Landon! My first guitar was an Arbor Strat knockoff. My second was a Fender MIM HSS Strat. I wish I still had that baby.

[dlux]

I love Teles as well and have 4 of them. I even have a LP Junior with a twisted tele neck PU added. The single tone and volume is the best choice for a basic gig guitar.

[southernpanda]

My tele was the first guitar I bought. $100 on Amazon and after the T-Series EMG’s and an additional $300 worth of upgrades later, it’s a workhorse.

[HTEK]

All I can say is now you have some Tele3s... You should check out the G&L ASAT which is what Leo did with the Telecaster after he form3d G&L. THe ASAT is one great guiktar in all it's formw. I o2wn two now. I also have a handful of other G&L's Even the Indonestian made ones are opretty awsom b3ecause they use US made Hardware and pickups. That means you get MFD pickups and Saddle lock bridge which is fabulous. The ASAT tributes sound close to a Telecaster. The bridge is simmilar with copper alloy saddles but the Deluxe with the Jumbo MFD pickups are their own thing completely. THey nplay like a tele but they sound... different. Warmer stronger thicker tone...

[JDStone]

My first guitar was an early model 1986 G&L ASAT 3T Sunburst (it has "by Leo Fender", his whole name, not like the newer G&L's that just say "Guitars by Leo", due to FMIC being horrible people.) with an ebony fretboard with medium-jumbo frets, luckily I still have that guitar. The T-type guitars will always be my first love of guitar, I mostly play a Strat/S-type guitar because I am a huge Jimi Hendrix fan, along with most of my other guitar hero's playing Strat's but funny that they play Strat's also because of Hendrix: Blackmore, Clapton, Frusciante, Curtis Mayfield, Mark Knopfler. Only guitar hero of mine that doesn't play a Strat was the late great Ron Ashton. I am slowly warming up to my Strat after a decade or more, and I see it's advantages and it's great flexibility and versatility. That said, I am just as happy playing my G&L ASAT. Also, the only two reason I didn't get a G&L Comanche was that everyone told me that to get a sound closer to Hendrix and everyone else I liked, I needed a Fender Strat. So I got one, with vintage style pickups, and it happened to be the actual 2006 Fender 60th Anniversary American Strat Model, the one with the little diamond medallion and cubic zirconia with a banner that says "Sixty Years" on it. The whole year in 2006 Fender guitars all had a diamond base-plate, so they are often mistaken as the 60th Anniversary model. There also a model for the 60th year of just the Strat, and now a 70th Year of the Strat. That being said, I will never buy another Fender guitar new, except maybe a Squire. My experience with FMIC has been just awful. And that was back in the mid-2000's and I have heard they have gotten worse. Hard to believe that can happen. Fender is lucky if I buy their guitar picks and guitar cables, the only two products that are worth it, if you ask me. Ahh, but I am getting old and crotchety.

[matthewcyahoo]

My parents bought me an Ephophone Genesis in 1979 at Mannys Music in Manhattan. Still have it..

[carsandguitars]

I can't remeber exactly what my first electric guitar was, just remember it was a strat style with a 3 tones sunburst. I sold it after a year or two to buy a Vantage 113T that I still have and that I also modded so much that there's only the neck, body and bridge left from the factory (maybe the volume pot but I have a doubt). The first mod was a strat (probably squier) pickup in the middle position (still there). Then it had a humbucker from my Epiphone LP in the bridge position with a wonderfull plywood ring to hold it, then a humbucker sized P90 from GFS with a 3d printed pickguard, and then I made a 3 ply pickguard, and added a Seymour Duncan single coil at the neck position.
There are a couple of videos along the years with that guitar and its evolution on my channel.

I discovered the Telecaster more recently and bought it here in Canada and this is what made me discover your channel because you had a very interesting comparison between 3 Telecaster (Squier classic vibe, Squier bullet I suppose and Fender mexican ? I'm not sure) and I stayed subscribed because I like your reviews and absurd sense of humour.

[Stoobers]

I <3 my tele... Wanted one for years and only this year got one... and man, it's so good.

[jacobbond]

My first electric was a Vantage T style from the mid 90’s. Last year I put a Fender 50’s pickup in the bridge and hooked it straight to the volume pot. Now it’s a one trick poney, but I still enjoy playing it.