Ed Bickert’s Blonde Fender Telecaster, 1965 at The Twelfth Fret
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- For many years, the late, world renowned Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert used this mid-1965 blonde Fender Telecaster on countless sessions, club dates, and recordings. This guitar was his main instrument from 1965 until his retirement in 2000. Ed Bickert died on February 28, 2019.
This iconic guitar was not a stranger to The Twelfth Fret, as Ed Bickert was a customer and had The Twelfth Fret maintain and modify the guitar, adding a Gibson humbucking pickup in the neck position. As Ed used this guitar constantly, it periodically required refretting, and this work was performed by Grant and Russ Lackey at the original Twelfth Fret Repair Shop on Kingston Road.
The late Ed Bickert improvises live with his 1965 Fender Telecaster, over photos of that guitar as it is now.
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Really Great Guitar Player.!! God Bless You Ed.!🙏
Ed was Jazz guitar's most-sophisticated player, and the player against whom I continue to measure all others. In the end, no other player really comes close. The guitar should be in a museum, I agree, but the truth is that if I'd had the money, I would have bought it when it (shockingly !) came up for sale. But I also know that having that guitar mounted over my bed would have been just too much of a psych-out.
It belongs in a museum.
What a treasure!! Of course Ed Bickert could have gotten the same sound with a 2 x 4, but love seeing this iconic instrument!
Ed deserves to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame! Eligibility criteria should be a given although I don't know if they take into account different genres of music and relative market share or if its strictly a volume based numbers approach which would seem to be totaly wrong - haha. As part of a suitable tribute to this gentlemen of Canadian jazz who had a huge impact on our culture and jazz music globally should be his iconic Telecaster.
I worked at The Twelfth Fret approx. 1983 on a co-op and had the pleasure of meeting Ed when he came into the store.
He even played a little bit.
Fantastic. This guitar looks like an old altar.
The Telecaster is such a practical guitar and works with any style of music. It's fascinating that a player like Bickert, who played with such perfection and note-for-note quality, viewed his guitar as a workhorse and not this precious thing. Note how he has an extra pick Scotch taped to the back under the neck plate and the hex wrench (I assume for adjusting the intonation on the bridge) taped to the upper bout. I had never seen anybody do that before but I guess Bickert wanted to make sure he didn't lose those things in the guitar case.
I really admire the workhorse approach.
history worn into the instrument.
Such great history. Wow.
Were those humbuckers t tops?
If so , do you know if they were Alnico 3 or 5. ?
If not which Humbucker did you put in?
Many thanks in advance.
12th Fret, were there any circuit changes made in Eds Tele when replacing the bridge single coil PU with a PAF? Or was it just dropped in? Thx alot for this Video, Im a Fender player and Bickert fan.
Hello!
When I installed the Gibson humbucker in Ed Biker’s 1965 Tele, it still had the original 3 way switch and the original wiring. This period-wiring gave you the following: position 1; neck pickup with the bass-circuit capacitor. Position 2; neck pickup with normal volume and tone. Position 3; bridge pickup with normal volume and tone.
In order to get the neck and bridge pickups at the same time, one had to carefully balance the switch half-way between the position 2 and 3 detente points.
I changed this to the “modern” circuit whereby you got neck pickup, neck & bridge pickup, bridge pickup respectively, on switch positions 1, 2 and 3. The volume and tone controls worked “normally” as on any modern tele.
That said, I believe that Ed used mainly the neck pickup, position 1, with the tone turned down.
Grant MacNeill, Luthier and founder of The Twelfth Fret Guitar Shop
@@TheTwelfthFretOfficial Thank you for this. I first learned about Ed Bickert by watching live music/variety TV shows on CBC as a kid, trying to learn guitar. Instantly loved that warm tone and his pianistic playing quality. Went on to buy albums later. He is a legend.
What songs are playing?....
It should be played.
¿Realmente Ed usaba roundwoud 0.10? Increíble, de ser así, demuestra que podía tocar hasta con una escoba de barrer y sonar bien.
¡Buenas! Tuve la suerte de conversar varias horas con Ed Bickert e incluso, después de su fallecimiento, un amigo de él me envío como obsequio un juego de cuerdas que eran suyas. Usaba .011 rounds, sin nada raro, pero entiendo que antes del 78 (aproximadamente) usaba calibres más gruesos y mantenía el micrófono bobina simple original de la guitarra. Eso significa que, si esto efectivamente es así, para el legendario "Pure Desmond" usó la guitarra con su micrófono original y a mis oídos un calibre 12. Pero, claro, estoy de acuerdo con lo que decís y sin dudas su sonido venía 100% de él. ¡Te mando un abrazo!
@@PedroBellora excelente respuesta Pedrito. Justamente hace una semana le cambié las cuerdas a mi Telecaster. Le puse 0.11 D'ddario round wound, las NY... Espectacular suena. Ahora solamente falta incorporar al espíritu de Ed y listo, jajaja.
You just need one if you know what you are doing.
So cool to see a master’s tools. He never gave a shit about the looks; as long as it did its job why would ya change it?
Please, could any of you guys at The Twelfth Fret help me?
We know Mr Bickert had put a Gibson humbucker at neck position, and I just wonder if the original wiring circuit was modified too.
Do you know anything about it?
Thanks, and
Greetings from Italy
Hello! When I installed the Gibson humbucker in Ed Biker’s 1965 Tele, it still had the original 3 way switch and the original wiring.
This period-wiring gave you the following: position 1; neck pickup with the bass-circuit capacitor. Position 2; neck pickup with normal volume and tone. Position 3; bridge pickup with normal volume and tone. In order to get the neck and bridge pickups at the same time, one had to carefully balance the switch half-way between the position 2 and 3 detente points.
I changed this to the “modern” circuit whereby you got neck pickup, neck & bridge pickup, bridge pickup respectively, on switch positions 1, 2 and 3. The volume and tone controls worked “normally” as on any modern tele.
That said, I believe that Ed used mainly the neck pickup, position 1, with the tone turned down.
Grant MacNeill, Luthier and founder of The Twelfth Fret Guitar Shop
Thank you very much, Sir.
That is all I wanted to know!
I'm working on a quality replica of Ed Bickert's '65 Telecaster and I appreciate your kind answer.
Greetings from Bologna, Italy
@@carloalbertorassaval3275 Very cool!