Yeah, i really liked hearing the history behind the guitars. I was thinking strat for the next episode to keep with the fender theme, but a les paul episode would be really cool too
@@sirkayda7205 It can be a real challenge to faithfully reproduce the authentic, throaty, spitty sound of an open fuzz face. Equipment is one thing but timing is everything. At least they clean up nicely, even with the trademark growl.
Your best video ever!! 😁 Absolutely loved it! Btw I believe rosewood was added because players hated how gross the worn maple looked on B&W TV :) Now Fender charges 5k for that look 😂
Relic guitars are a bit of a joke imho. Why would anyone want to look like a fake-ass? 'They became popular recently' is all I need to know about anything and those buying them.
@Argle Bargle Exactly. That’s how I felt when “distressed” jeans became a thing. I was looking at some hung on a rack. The holes were all in the exact same place. I pictured wearing them, running into someone with the same freaking wear patterns and holes on their overpriced denim. What?! Then came the relic guitars. Yay. I sure want my pre-beat up axe to look just like yours AND pay a premium for that privilege.
The tele shape *is* ugly, primitive, uncontoured, uncomfortable... The tele, I think, is awesome *in spite* of its shape - not because of it! It's such a fluke, the telecaster. A happy... not accident, but... Let's just say, it was a fortunate fluke by Leo Fender. ...I don't think he meant to design a guitar with so much 'tude in its tone. It positively bristles and simmers with this funky growl - that, surely was not the intention for what was more a guitar for swing than rock. Cos Rock didn't even exist - not really.
I had the same impression and it took me 15 years to finally give in. It's not my favorite guitar but it shares the 2nd place with my LP. First for me comes a custom made Strat style with special split able hotrods. It's just so versatile.
@@dustinadair7893 There is Teles with humbuckers too,with a split control on the pull up knobs....Artist Guitars, Australian company. Pretty damn good guitars.
Hi Robert! I really enjoy your videos but I'm not sure if you're completely right here. Because I always thought the vintage Tele wiring went like this: Position1: Bridge, Position2: Neck, Position3: "Dark circuit" ( for the neck pickup). And if you wanted to get the two pickups together (the sound we nowadays call the middle position in a Tele) you had to find the right spot with the toggle switch to get it. Kinda the same way positions 2 and 4 worked on a Strat for a long time... Tell me if I'm wrong!
Another outstanding video, Mr. Baker. Thank you. Coming in to my own musical taste in the late ‘70s to early ‘80s, adding Clash and Pretenders albums to the hand-me-down Stones and Springsteen LPs my older sister gave me, when I picked up a tennis racquet to play rock star, I always envisioned a Tele in hand. Now, a full grown (well, age-wise) adult, I own and play 3-one traditional 2 pickups, a Nashville set-up with 3 pickups and tremolo bar, and a third with P-90s. Getting old isn’t really so bad after all. Peace!
I have a G&L ASAT, that I changed the pickups to Fender Custom Shop Tele pickup, upgrades the tuners, to Schaller Locking tuners, then for fun, threw a Fender Neck Plate on it, to show it is kinda the best of both worlds. I preferred the G&L Neck to the fenders I tried, so it is perfect for me!
The Telecaster Custom is actually the one with the 3 bolt neck, Wide Range humbucker in the neck, single coil in the bridge and the Gibson style control layout....the guitar shown in the picture is the Custom Telecaster.......that Friedman is stunning! Great video btw...
Building my own tele at this very moment- finishing and polishing before assembly. Can't wait to hear how she sounds. Thanks for this vid to tide me over!
He kind of just did one. In fact, two: "Do PRS Guitars Sound Unique?" ua-cam.com/video/tJtvUScZasg/v-deo.html "The Guitar I Didn't Know I'd Love So Much" ua-cam.com/video/EjamFv1lYFg/v-deo.html
He just did a great prs video, man. Worth a look, it bumped me over the edge to pull the trigger on one. (sitting on my lap right now 👍) The video is called something like, "Do PRS's have a distict/unique voice?" I recommend it.
This video was great!!! You should continue the series. I think you should cover these guitars: Stratocaster Jaguar and Jazzmaster Les Paul SG ES-335/339
Just a small point to add. Jimmy Page’s dragon tele and the mirror tele are the same guitar. That’s the one Jeff Beck gave him back in the Yardbird days. Jimmy just dressed it up so it would look cooler on stage. Good video though, I’d check out more!
The into and extro were just breathtakingly amazing, yet simple, bits of music. And that, while very possible on other guitars, just feels right on a tele.
Awww you didnt mention my favorite. The Nashville Tele lol probably the most versatile there is! 3 pickups and I've seen them with humbucker AND single coil pickups.
Every time I work on a song with electric guitar, I shootout a tele vs a strat and the tele wins 9/10, regardless of genre. More bite that cuts through the mix, stays out of the way of fundamental vocal frequencies with most singers, and way more personality than any other guitar.
I recently bought a 2013 Fender modern player Telecaster from my father in law and it’s easily my favorite Guitar I have at the moment. It does it all, I can play anything from Country to Metal on it and it has all the sounds I need. It’s a great quality Guitar.
I own a few teles, and believe it or not the one i play more than any of them is my squire classic vibe custom i bought as a backup!! it plays and sound perfect!
Had that exact same tele! at one time..... Love that blue body. Running a natural wood body and neck custom these days..... Everyone needs a tele in their line-up.
Thanks for the history lesson. Without all the knowledge, I needed a telecaster back in the 80's, to do a Springsteen tribute. I immediately fell in love with the guitar, and it's still my number one choice for playing anything
Cool video. My "Tele" body(curly maple topped one piece prima vera) has a Music Man Special 22 fret neck with a sculpted smooth neck/body joint much like the Charvel T with a pair of Seymour Duncan "P Rails." Very versatile sound palette.
For me, the Tele was always the guitar I didn't need... Too unsophisticated... too twangy... too, well... simplistic. And then I picked up a used MIM and started noodling around with it. Can't put it down. Less is more.
I used to have just Schecter 7 strings/some US PRS/ESP but noticed whenever I go to GC I'd play something I don't usually play to mess around, then noticed I only played teles and got along with how they felt. Now I just love teles in general and are my main "pick up and play" guitar.
I love that a Tele can get dinged and scratched and battered and keeps looking better. My friends kid accidentally knocked my Tele over onto concrete at a bbq and the poor kids parents couldnt understand that I didn't care and was actually very pleased with the brand new scuff.
Gretsch currently makes the Broadkaster drums (I think they went away and were brought back again) but Fender does not own the Gretsch drum company; it owns the guitar business. The Drum Workshop (DW) owns Gretsch Drums. (DW are based in California but Gretsch drums are made in South Carolina.)
I bought two thinlines, a green MIM and a silver mim that I have updated in a lot of ways. That basic tele sound is the best. I run a very modest pedalboard into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and the sound is amazing.
9:31 I am pretty sure the reason Fender switched to rosewood was because players would quickly wear through the lacquer on a maple finger board creating divots. So Fender but a slab of rosewood over the maple.
I've commented on other channels that I bought a new Squire Bullet HSS HT STRAT to replace the one that got stolen a couple weeks ago and I'm amazed that I enjoy playing it at this point it's more enjoyable than my EPI LP MUSE!
Great history of the Tele, nice job really enjoyed it!! I've been playing Fender guitars and amps. over 50 years, still my # 1 choice, love my Tele!!! Thanks for sharing your knolledge!!
Fynny we both have birthdays this month 19th is my 54th gah so I got my first real fender american elite ash. Under 7lbs so much versatility. Made myself get goosebumps as my wigmfe gave me a marshall dsl20 new one with celestion 7080 its a great match. Great video. I was always les paul or pound sand but now as having a more refined and developed ear. I get it. Those 2 things together are Rock and Roll.
I got my first tele recently, a '91 USA Standard, it's got a slab body with no belly or arm contour and it's taking a bit of getting used to tbh. I do like it though. This was a great watch man.
Studio musicians in the early days used a tele it’s clear a work horse . When Page used it , it didn’t sound like an original tele Page cranked it and had to get a les Paul to beef up his live shows with zeppelin. It is an iconic guitar that’s for sure . Cheers
Stick with the Telecaster .... go deep .... you could devote an entire channel to it's models , transformations , wiring , mods , pricelists past and present , American vs Japanese vs Mexican , best copies , famous songs it was used on , famous players interviews etc etc. Good video , but it makes me hungry for more :)
I've been playing since 93 on a 1990 MIM strat. treated myself to a Korean Custom 24 PRS 3 years ago which i played for 2 weeks then put in the corner of the room ever since, and bought used MIM Tele last week and i knew within 15 mins of getting it home that it was the guitar I should have been playing for the last 30 years. As playable as the PRS or even more so. Feels like putty in my hands and produces the tones i always admired most in guitar music. Kicking myself, but also delighted.
I played a Telecaster for the first time 5 years ago at Guitar Center; it was a Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster w/Jazzmaster neck pickup & headstock that wasn't set up properly so it was just another guitar to me. Now the second time i played one was 3yrs later at another GC location; it was Fender's Classic 50s Telecaster straight in a 60-watt 2x12 Hot Rod Deville (volume on 3!) and that 50-minute experience did it to me damn good in all three position though i always gravitated to that twangy bridge PU. The second Telecaster I played that day (overall 3rd!) was a Nashville Deluxe that had noiseless pickups (a Strat middle PU and a 5-way switch); i enjoyed the bridge & neck pickups individually but woulda enjoyed it much better if I could have got them together but that's another story. Two months later after the blond white Classic 50s was sold the next day, I took a trip to a local pawn shop where a black Tradition CAB10 Tele was practically calling my name in the midst of Strat copies around it. I played it unplugged with my left ear on the upper bout finger-picking while feeling it and hearing it resonate through the alder body. I already knew what it was sound like electrically and was more convinced when I plugged it in for the first time after I brought it home to swap out the guts for a better wiring kit that came with a 4 way switch and my 2nd Tele came from the same local pawn shop in the form of a used DIY kit with a few minor imperfections that I now remedied before i turned it into my own personal Esquire; they're both 100% better than they were!
Super interesting Robert! Yes! Please do more of these as you did a wonderful job at it. Strats and Les Pauls would be great! Thank you for making it fun too! :)
I played guitar for like 7 years. I liked Les Pauls and Strats. Recently started playing again and got a Tele. Don't know why but it feels good and different.
it was called the telecaster because many bands would play it on TV so they named it telecaster because its where people saw it and ended up gaining its popularity on TV
In the past, I was not a tele person because of the shape and looking just not quite right to me. However, after listening to Richie Kotzen’s playing which totally changes my mind about the Telecaster. Now I have a 2018 player series telecaster, it sounds great with clean and dirty tone🎸🎸🎸
I was in a guitar forum and someone started a thread about the minimum number of guitars to get an usable and sufficient range of tones. Lots of us thought you only need a Les Paul and a Tele.
I have a Squire Affinity Telecaster. I put the EMG t-system pups in it and it's pretty decent for a cheapo. I bought the entry level Tele because I wasnt sure if I'd like it for whatever reason. Now I'm on the lookout for a little more higher end model. So yeah I like Teles.
THANK YOU!!! I just bought my first Tele after having them for almost 40 years! I always thought they were ugly, tinnny sounding pieces of crap. I finally broke down and tried one with my dog and is become one of my favorite guitars to play. It's comfortable, smooth, and has some serious crunch. I bought the player series model.
Bridge Tele pickup = great Rock overdrive and Country twang tones. Neck Tele pickup = Warm clean Jazzy tones. Just a great guitar for all Genre's of music.
I have a telecaster, but have never liked the single coil, fender sound (to thin sounding), humbuckers are more superior and heavier to me. Having said that, they do serve a purpose which is why I keep mine.
The Broadcaster wiring was pos 1; bridge no tone. pos 2; blend in the neck pu. pos 3; neck with cap preset. it changed on the tele to pos;1 bridge with tone .pos 2; neck with tone and pos 3 neck with preset bass .The modern wiring did not come in until Leo sold the company .
A tele is a guitar that tests your abilities, no 5 way switches, tremolo. Makes you use all your skills to make it sing. I put Twisted Tele pickups on my MIM tele and it sounds huge.
My local pawn shop has a tele thinline, natural finish,duel fender "F" humbuckers( which i'll replace w a toploader bridge and Single coils) . Ive always played Les Pauls and Strats but im down to just an old Strat now. Got my fingers crossed that this guitar doesnt get picked up at pawn by the owner. Its eligable for sale in like 9 days!
I've always been a strat type body with humbuckers type of player, but I recently put together my own tele. I got the body from a shop, has an f hole and a nice dark finish to it with some kind of mahogany body for 100 bucks. I found out the reason it was so cheap was they messed up the pick guard,and messed up the bridge and pickup placement. I fixed those, put a reverse headstock strat type neck without fret dots(but a 12th fret marker) for a little over 100 bucks, replaced the neck pickup because it was too weak with the middle single coil from my Godin that I took out (to make the godin HH). Put new pots and switch, put a treble bleed cap on the volume, 500k pots actually (with a shunt resistor on the bridge pickup to warm it up a bit) and now it's one of my favorite guitars. There's something really cool about how simple it is. My other guitars have more tone options since modding them, but I really dig the simplicity of the tele. And it's nice to have a single coil option as a humbucker player. The new neck pickup actually sounds amazing now. It was just going to be a place holder till I got a better tele neck pickup, but I really like it. Has a great hendrix/SRV type tone to it. The bridge has bite and twang, but it's got a nice low end beef to it as well (pickup came with the guitar). The middle selection is funk town. I love it. For a little over 200 bucks and some time and effort on my part, it's an amazing guitar. It's becoming one of my go to guitars in the studio and for jamming. It can pretty much do anything.
I bought a '91 American Standard Tele new but could never get on with it until I found the right person to set it up in '18. It played 110% better and I made a personal vow to play only the Tele at my band's many gigs for 1yr. I leave my guitars totally stock and play them 'as is'. Observations so far are I hate the pickup selector switch banging on my hand all the time, the physical balance weightwise is fantastic, rosewood neck is NOT the tonal influencer I thought it would be vs maple (I can't name them but wood studies have backed this up) and it cuts through on stage all night long. Unlike my Strat Pluses there are certain spots on the neck where the E, B or G strings sound thuddy with no sparkle. Who knows why (high or low action, it still does it). Overall I'm extremely happy with it and would highly recommend one.
I was always a Gibson player, until I bought my first tele, it was a Japanese paisley. Next was a Mexican tele and then a ritchie kotzen edition. Looking at a US made thinline next
The older telecasters I would see in the sixties and seventys had only one bridge saddle per two strings so only three string saddles and they were hardly ever straight. Always at an angle for intonation. They also had a chrome cover that covered the bridge and pick up. The cover was removable so many of us used the cover as an ashtray. If I remember correctly that what the cover was actually called among musicians.. Fender may have even called it that!?!
I don't know if anyone has commented on the riff you are playing at the end , if you wrote that man it's bad ass... Definitely develop it if you haven't already or if it's not a cover , I think it's dope
Keith Richards's Mccawber? That was different & transformational. I've noticed that PAFs sound "better" when used with a longer scale neck (25.5 vs 24.75). The mud goes away. I noticed this when I bought my first Gibson Johnny A. Great vid! Thanks.
Fender Teles are great, no doubt. However, I stumbled upon a GREAT Tele-style guitar last week by chance. It is a Michael Kelly Enlightened 55. Basic Tele body shape, with a belly contour in back and forearm contour on the front, so it is very comfortable. Very smooth, comfortable and fast maple neck. Medium jumbo frets with a compound-radius fretboard. Mini-humbucker at the neck and regular hummer at the bridge, plus coil-splitting on both, so a very broad sonic palette. The cherry on top is the killer looks this axe has. This is definitely worth checking out as a very nice Tele, for anyone.
have 3 tele's but you hit on a point the f hole and the hollow body. can't find the original but the squier starcaster is an animal that gives you the fender neck wit twin humbuckers i love it my pro 2 is pissed cause i play the starcaster more.
Dude I enjoyed the history behind the Tele you have us! I don’t know that I ‘need’ a Tele...my style is melodic death metal and not so sure a Tele would work for that 🤘
I want a traditional Tele one day but I love my Joe Trohman Signature Squier Tele. I know it's not particularly authentic but what I do love is the neck. I have a MIM Strat that's nice but it's only the 9.5" radius and frankly almost everything else I have is 12" and so does the JT. It's one of my go to guitars just because it feels so easy to play and I'm anything but a professional. My other go to is an old pre-lawsuit era SG copy from Japan. Somehow the name fell off or was removed from the headstock before I got it for my 15th birthday so I have no idea who built it. Besides I've modded it so much it barely resembles the original configuration.
I love my Teles. I have two Teles and one LP. The Teles are the ones I play 90% of the time. On paper, the Les Paul should be the more versatile of the two, with separate volume and tone controls for each pickup. However, that just has not been my experience. The Tele's "playability" is better for me, as well as the variety of tones I can get. That said, by all means do a video on the Les Paul, and the Strat, which I've always considered the best looking electric guitar--the Strat is almost sculptural.
I like this video a lot and I found it very interesting. Forgive me, but I must say that at 13:20 it was a little disappointing that you talked about how the Tele deluxe is such a beast, but then you didn’t play it! You gave examples using every other guitar.
I'm getting my first guitar for Christmas My dad is getting me a squier telecaster and I can't wait I say first cus it'll be the first good guitar cus my first guitar will be a cheapo glarry Stratocaster
Fun fact, I heard Brian May himself in the Star Licks videotape say that they ('they' probably being the producer), quote: "made me play the telecaster" for the solo in Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
So should we do more of these? Maybe a Les Paul episode next :)
Yes. please do
Yes yes yes !!
Yeah, i really liked hearing the history behind the guitars. I was thinking strat for the next episode to keep with the fender theme, but a les paul episode would be really cool too
Please!!!
Yes to the guitars players must have + the styles of pickups players need. Humbuckers, P90s.
Why can't you buy a T-style in Afghanistan? Because of the tele ban.
ahahah good one dude !
That's a funny one bro lol
126 ppl are white
@@leamog what is that supposed to mean ?
leamog uh?
"Nothing sells more Les Pauls than Jimmy Page's Telecaster"
Unpopular opinion: the telecaster neck pickup is the juiciest pick up and it’s more versatile than the bridge.
S.A.M. I agree
It's an acquired taste for sure, can't say I agree tho
This is not even unpopular
@@yonathanalvarez5805 true
Idk if thats unpopular or not but all I can say is I'm definitely in love with a tele neck and wouldn't have bothered with a tele if it wasnt for it
I've been playing through my teles bridge for so long I forgot what my neck sounds like.
Well - when you vomit it sounds something along the lines of "HUUUARRRRRHUHUHAARRRREWWW!"
@@whynottalklikeapirat - **Mic's neck with sm57**
@@sirkayda7205 You might wanna go with two different mics for a luxurious wide ranging palette of tone potential
@@whynottalklikeapirat - Good deal. Gotta capture some Sub "Guuuu" some throaty Mid "uuurrrrrrr" and some High end airy "gggggleeeee"
@@sirkayda7205 It can be a real challenge to faithfully reproduce the authentic, throaty, spitty sound of an open fuzz face. Equipment is one thing but timing is everything. At least they clean up nicely, even with the trademark growl.
You gave us a history of the Tele, but you didn't cover why they were special or why we need one.
Disclaimer: I own more than 1. :-)
I guess I wasn't the only one who thought that.
Like beato just going through the different parts of a song to show why it's great, which he does sometimes, rather than any analysis.
@@theoriginalheartstrummer I think they're alluding to the video title though.
My first Tele is said to arrive tomorrow.
What colors are yours ???
I have a MIM Tele and it’s one of my favorite guitars ....love it. Made a few upgrades, bone nut, locking tuners and switch plate.
Dave Standiford
If it aint broke....
They are really good
So good that tom morello used it (mim) in the stu !
Your best video ever!! 😁
Absolutely loved it!
Btw I believe rosewood was added because players hated how gross the worn maple looked on B&W TV :)
Now Fender charges 5k for that look 😂
Thanks, dude and hahaha that's probably true!!! and hilarious!
The Rainforest Eco crowd has driven the Rosewood Price through the roof.
Awww I love the look of a extra worn maple/ lacquered neck!
Relic guitars are a bit of a joke imho. Why would anyone want to look like a fake-ass? 'They became popular recently' is all I need to know about anything and those buying them.
@Argle Bargle
Exactly. That’s how I felt when “distressed” jeans became a thing.
I was looking at some hung on a rack. The holes were all in the exact same place. I pictured wearing them, running into someone with the same freaking wear patterns and holes on their overpriced denim. What?!
Then came the relic guitars. Yay. I sure want my pre-beat up axe to look just like yours AND pay a premium for that privilege.
When i first started playing guitar i hated the T shape. But now i have 3 teles and cant get enough of them
That happened to me but with Les Paul shaped guitars lol. I have 2 of them and I'm trying to keep from wanting another and I just can't lol
The tele shape *is* ugly, primitive, uncontoured, uncomfortable... The tele, I think, is awesome *in spite* of its shape - not because of it!
It's such a fluke, the telecaster. A happy... not accident, but... Let's just say, it was a fortunate fluke by Leo Fender.
...I don't think he meant to design a guitar with so much 'tude in its tone. It positively bristles and simmers with this funky growl - that, surely was not the intention for what was more a guitar for swing than rock. Cos Rock didn't even exist - not really.
I had the same impression and it took me 15 years to finally give in. It's not my favorite guitar but it shares the 2nd place with my LP. First for me comes a custom made Strat style with special split able hotrods. It's just so versatile.
I got my first guitar today for my birthday and I bought I tele!!
congrats!
Enjoy!
Congrats! You won't regret it.
👍👍👍👍👍
My first electric one will be a T too 😋
The minute you start using the tone control on a Tele...you suddenly realise that you will never need another guitar.
That’s a fact!
The Tele really has never been improved upon.
Eh. I guess you can get by with just a Tele. But gotta have something with humbuckers as well
@@dustinadair7893 and behold, the "freeway" switch is there, turning your Tele into a humbucking guitar too.
I started messing around with the tone control on my Tele & realized I need another guitar. So, I'm getting another Tele.
@@dustinadair7893 There is Teles with humbuckers too,with a split control on the pull up knobs....Artist Guitars, Australian company. Pretty damn good guitars.
5:58 This lick sounds so goooood :)
Hi Robert! I really enjoy your videos but I'm not sure if you're completely right here. Because I always thought the vintage Tele wiring went like this: Position1: Bridge, Position2: Neck, Position3: "Dark circuit" ( for the neck pickup). And if you wanted to get the two pickups together (the sound we nowadays call the middle position in a Tele) you had to find the right spot with the toggle switch to get it. Kinda the same way positions 2 and 4 worked on a Strat for a long time... Tell me if I'm wrong!
The chords at the beginning where so breathtakingly beautiful!
Yes! Plus the alternate picking right at the end - sounded a bit like Andy Summers, during his days with The Police.
They are were..
Man that riff around 6:10 was really nice ! Wish ill get a little bit of that in your course !
Actually, Robert, Fender does not own Gretsch, it is still owned by the family. Gretsch is distributed by Fender. It's a pretty common misconception.
Another outstanding video, Mr. Baker. Thank you.
Coming in to my own musical taste in the late ‘70s to early ‘80s, adding Clash and Pretenders albums to the hand-me-down Stones and Springsteen LPs my older sister gave me, when I picked up a tennis racquet to play rock star, I always envisioned a Tele in hand.
Now, a full grown (well, age-wise) adult, I own and play 3-one traditional 2 pickups, a Nashville set-up with 3 pickups and tremolo bar, and a third with P-90s. Getting old isn’t really so bad after all. Peace!
I have a G&L ASAT, that I changed the pickups to Fender Custom Shop Tele pickup, upgrades the tuners, to Schaller Locking tuners, then for fun, threw a Fender Neck Plate on it, to show it is kinda the best of both worlds. I preferred the G&L Neck to the fenders I tried, so it is perfect for me!
G&L pickups are better than fenders though
The Telecaster Custom is actually the one with the 3 bolt neck, Wide Range humbucker in the neck, single coil in the bridge and the Gibson style control layout....the guitar shown in the picture is the Custom Telecaster.......that Friedman is stunning! Great video btw...
Building my own tele at this very moment- finishing and polishing before assembly. Can't wait to hear how she sounds. Thanks for this vid to tide me over!
Why PRS's are special next! Great video my man! I would love a Tele, and I'll know I get one eventually!
Good for you that you chase your dreams!👍
@@danielkhirman179 Ahh why thank ye man 👍
He kind of just did one. In fact, two:
"Do PRS Guitars Sound Unique?" ua-cam.com/video/tJtvUScZasg/v-deo.html
"The Guitar I Didn't Know I'd Love So Much" ua-cam.com/video/EjamFv1lYFg/v-deo.html
He just did a great prs video, man. Worth a look, it bumped me over the edge to pull the trigger on one. (sitting on my lap right now 👍)
The video is called something like, "Do PRS's have a distict/unique voice?" I recommend it.
Why PRS´s are special ?
Why?
They´re not.
This video was great!!! You should continue the series. I think you should cover these guitars:
Stratocaster
Jaguar and Jazzmaster
Les Paul
SG
ES-335/339
Maybe Explorers and Vs and PRS eventually
@gheddi My strat is easily my favorite
Just a small point to add. Jimmy Page’s dragon tele and the mirror tele are the same guitar. That’s the one Jeff Beck gave him back in the Yardbird days. Jimmy just dressed it up so it would look cooler on stage. Good video though, I’d check out more!
The into and extro were just breathtakingly amazing, yet simple, bits of music. And that, while very possible on other guitars, just feels right on a tele.
Awww you didnt mention my favorite. The Nashville Tele lol probably the most versatile there is! 3 pickups and I've seen them with humbucker AND single coil pickups.
Every time I work on a song with electric guitar, I shootout a tele vs a strat and the tele wins 9/10, regardless of genre. More bite that cuts through the mix, stays out of the way of fundamental vocal frequencies with most singers, and way more personality than any other guitar.
Had a jazzmaster, also incredibly versatile tones like the P90 pickups.
Jazzmasters don't have P90s.
Mosstone right, I said “like” p90’s. I feel that jazzmaster pickups were very versatile. Great lead sound, great rhythm, it took all my pedals well.
Good job Robert, thanks! I was born the same year the Telecaster was!
I recently bought a 2013 Fender modern player Telecaster from my father in law and it’s easily my favorite Guitar I have at the moment. It does it all, I can play anything from Country to Metal on it and it has all the sounds I need. It’s a great quality Guitar.
Teles are in my opinion, the best guitar
I own a few teles, and believe it or not the one i play more than any of them is my squire classic vibe custom i bought as a backup!! it plays and sound perfect!
The CVC is also a beautiful looking guitar.
My first guitar that I bought a few months ago - An ‘05 Squier Affinity Tele. For $200, one of the best first guitars I could’ve got.
whats up Robert! great video man recently i bought a Made in Mexico Tele and its great!! love it
My first guitar was my Dad's '73 Tele Deluxe. Loved that guitar and luckily for me, almost 40 years later I still have it.
dang thats so cool!
@@RobertBakerGuitar Thanks!!!
"When Leo designed the Tele he knocked it out of the park" - Lou Reed
Had that exact same tele! at one time..... Love that blue body. Running a natural wood body and neck custom these days..... Everyone needs a tele in their line-up.
Thanks for the history lesson. Without all the knowledge, I needed a telecaster back in the 80's, to do a Springsteen tribute. I immediately fell in love with the guitar, and it's still my number one choice for playing anything
Just bought my first tele two months ago and it quickly became my favorite guitar. One other version is the Tele Plus from the 90s.
Cool video. My "Tele" body(curly maple topped one piece prima vera) has a Music Man Special 22 fret neck with a sculpted smooth neck/body joint much like the Charvel T with a pair of Seymour Duncan "P Rails." Very versatile sound palette.
Tele with a Seymour Duncan 1/4 lb pickup. Sounds very nice.
For me, the Tele was always the guitar I didn't need... Too unsophisticated... too twangy... too, well... simplistic. And then I picked up a used MIM and started noodling around with it. Can't put it down. Less is more.
Minimalism can be sophisticated too
All of those reasons, "too unsophisticated, twangy, simplistic" those are like it's best features lol
Same here. Never even considered them.
Now, I play it more than any of my other guitars. Wtf?!? Lol
I used to have just Schecter 7 strings/some US PRS/ESP but noticed whenever I go to GC I'd play something I don't usually play to mess around, then noticed I only played teles and got along with how they felt. Now I just love teles in general and are my main "pick up and play" guitar.
Fender did make a deluxe with p90s called the Black Dove. It was an MIM model. I have one of them.
I love that a Tele can get dinged and scratched and battered and keeps looking better.
My friends kid accidentally knocked my Tele over onto concrete at a bbq and the poor kids parents couldnt understand that I didn't care and was actually very pleased with the brand new scuff.
Gretsch currently makes the Broadkaster drums (I think they went away and were brought back again) but Fender does not own the Gretsch drum company; it owns the guitar business. The Drum Workshop (DW) owns Gretsch Drums. (DW are based in California but Gretsch drums are made in South Carolina.)
I bought two thinlines, a green MIM and a silver mim that I have updated in a lot of ways. That basic tele sound is the best. I run a very modest pedalboard into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and the sound is amazing.
9:31 I am pretty sure the reason Fender switched to rosewood was because players would quickly wear through the lacquer on a maple finger board creating divots. So Fender but a slab of rosewood over the maple.
As I have preached for over 35 years, "Anybody can play a Stratocaster."
I've commented on other channels that I bought a new Squire Bullet HSS HT STRAT to replace the one that got stolen a couple weeks ago and I'm amazed that I enjoy playing it at this point it's more enjoyable than my EPI LP MUSE!
Didn’t know my guitar was a “thin line”.
Woodvibes w/F-hole.
Gorgeous & light.
Easy to muscle, for extreme bends.💡
Great history of the Tele, nice job really enjoyed it!!
I've been playing Fender guitars and amps. over 50 years, still my # 1 choice, love my Tele!!!
Thanks for sharing your knolledge!!
Fynny we both have birthdays this month 19th is my 54th gah so I got my first real fender american elite ash. Under 7lbs so much versatility. Made myself get goosebumps as my wigmfe gave me a marshall dsl20 new one with celestion 7080 its a great match. Great video. I was always les paul or pound sand but now as having a more refined and developed ear. I get it. Those 2 things together are Rock and Roll.
I got my first tele recently, a '91 USA Standard, it's got a slab body with no belly or arm contour and it's taking a bit of getting used to tbh. I do like it though. This was a great watch man.
Studio musicians in the early days used a tele it’s clear a work horse . When Page used it , it didn’t sound like an original tele Page cranked it and had to get a les Paul to beef up his live shows with zeppelin. It is an iconic guitar that’s for sure . Cheers
My favorite guitar to make is Tele. How bout a 28in scale 28 fret baritone Tele for ya?
Yes please!
Stick with the Telecaster .... go deep .... you could devote an entire channel to it's models , transformations , wiring , mods , pricelists past and present , American vs Japanese vs Mexican , best copies , famous songs it was used on , famous players interviews etc etc.
Good video , but it makes me hungry for more :)
I've been playing since 93 on a 1990 MIM strat. treated myself to a Korean Custom 24 PRS 3 years ago which i played for 2 weeks then put in the corner of the room ever since, and bought used MIM Tele last week and i knew within 15 mins of getting it home that it was the guitar I should have been playing for the last 30 years. As playable as the PRS or even more so. Feels like putty in my hands and produces the tones i always admired most in guitar music. Kicking myself, but also delighted.
I played a Telecaster for the first time 5 years ago at Guitar Center; it was a Squier Vintage Modified Telecaster w/Jazzmaster neck pickup & headstock that wasn't set up properly so it was just another guitar to me. Now the second time i played one was 3yrs later at another GC location; it was Fender's Classic 50s Telecaster straight in a 60-watt 2x12 Hot Rod Deville (volume on 3!) and that 50-minute experience did it to me damn good in all three position though i always gravitated to that twangy bridge PU. The second Telecaster I played that day (overall 3rd!) was a Nashville Deluxe that had noiseless pickups (a Strat middle PU and a 5-way switch); i enjoyed the bridge & neck pickups individually but woulda enjoyed it much better if I could have got them together but that's another story. Two months later after the blond white Classic 50s was sold the next day, I took a trip to a local pawn shop where a black Tradition CAB10 Tele was practically calling my name in the midst of Strat copies around it. I played it unplugged with my left ear on the upper bout finger-picking while feeling it and hearing it resonate through the alder body. I already knew what it was sound like electrically and was more convinced when I plugged it in for the first time after I brought it home to swap out the guts for a better wiring kit that came with a 4 way switch and my 2nd Tele came from the same local pawn shop in the form of a used DIY kit with a few minor imperfections that I now remedied before i turned it into my own personal Esquire; they're both 100% better than they were!
Awesome video brother thank you I just got a 2021 Fender American performer honeyburst tele last week and I love it
Great video, really liked the clean tone suspended riffs. You could tell a lot of thought went into this.
Super interesting Robert! Yes! Please do more of these as you did a wonderful job at it. Strats and Les Pauls would be great! Thank you for making it fun too! :)
The best electric guitar to accompany a singer of any genre
I played guitar for like 7 years. I liked Les Pauls and Strats. Recently started playing again and got a Tele. Don't know why but it feels good and different.
it was called the telecaster because many bands would play it on TV so they named it telecaster because its where people saw it and ended up gaining its popularity on TV
In the past, I was not a tele person because of the shape and looking just not quite right to me. However, after listening to Richie Kotzen’s playing which totally changes my mind about the Telecaster. Now I have a 2018 player series telecaster, it sounds great with clean and dirty tone🎸🎸🎸
I was in a guitar forum and someone started a thread about the minimum number of guitars to get an usable and sufficient range of tones. Lots of us thought you only need a Les Paul and a Tele.
That depends of _what_ tones you want. If you want a Sultans of Swing or Billie Jean tone, you need a Strat.
I have a Squire Affinity Telecaster. I put the EMG t-system pups in it and it's pretty decent for a cheapo. I bought the entry level Tele because I wasnt sure if I'd like it for whatever reason. Now I'm on the lookout for a little more higher end model. So yeah I like Teles.
Great video on my favorite guitar style!
05:40 the voicing was to boost the bass tone, in the days before electric bass guitars were widely available 👍
THANK YOU!!! I just bought my first Tele after having them for almost 40 years! I always thought they were ugly, tinnny sounding pieces of crap. I finally broke down and tried one with my dog and is become one of my favorite guitars to play. It's comfortable, smooth, and has some serious crunch. I bought the player series model.
Tried one with your dog??
09:28 The change to rosewood fingerboards was for cosmetic reasons - players didn’t like the worn look of maple (!)
What are you thoughts on the different saddles? Do you think they make that much of a difference?
Bridge Tele pickup = great Rock overdrive and Country twang tones. Neck Tele pickup = Warm clean Jazzy tones. Just a great guitar for all Genre's of music.
My MIM Thinline Deluxe is coming in Thursday, can't wait.
I have a telecaster, but have never liked the single coil, fender sound (to thin sounding), humbuckers are more superior and heavier to me. Having said that, they do serve a purpose which is why I keep mine.
Both of your teles are exceptional examples.
The Broadcaster wiring was pos 1; bridge no tone. pos 2; blend in the neck pu. pos 3; neck with cap preset. it changed on the tele to pos;1 bridge with tone .pos 2; neck with tone and pos 3 neck with preset bass .The modern wiring did not come in until Leo sold the company .
Don Randall was the guy who named the Telecaster. Also Esquire and Stratocaster,.
Yes! Also the man behind the idea of the first blond/gold hardware Strat we now know as the highly desired Mary Kaye.
A tele is a guitar that tests your abilities, no 5 way switches, tremolo. Makes you use all your skills to make it sing. I put Twisted Tele pickups on my MIM tele and it sounds huge.
I have a Squier CV 50's tele made in China and it has a beautiful sound that is all its own that Fender just doesn't seem to have.
@13:20 reverse pick hold? Less attack on strings?
My local pawn shop has a tele thinline, natural finish,duel fender "F" humbuckers( which i'll replace w a toploader bridge and Single coils) . Ive always played Les Pauls and Strats but im down to just an old Strat now. Got my fingers crossed that this guitar doesnt get picked up at pawn by the owner. Its eligable for sale in like 9 days!
I've always been a strat type body with humbuckers type of player, but I recently put together my own tele. I got the body from a shop, has an f hole and a nice dark finish to it with some kind of mahogany body for 100 bucks. I found out the reason it was so cheap was they messed up the pick guard,and messed up the bridge and pickup placement. I fixed those, put a reverse headstock strat type neck without fret dots(but a 12th fret marker) for a little over 100 bucks, replaced the neck pickup because it was too weak with the middle single coil from my Godin that I took out (to make the godin HH). Put new pots and switch, put a treble bleed cap on the volume, 500k pots actually (with a shunt resistor on the bridge pickup to warm it up a bit) and now it's one of my favorite guitars.
There's something really cool about how simple it is. My other guitars have more tone options since modding them, but I really dig the simplicity of the tele. And it's nice to have a single coil option as a humbucker player. The new neck pickup actually sounds amazing now. It was just going to be a place holder till I got a better tele neck pickup, but I really like it. Has a great hendrix/SRV type tone to it. The bridge has bite and twang, but it's got a nice low end beef to it as well (pickup came with the guitar). The middle selection is funk town. I love it. For a little over 200 bucks and some time and effort on my part, it's an amazing guitar. It's becoming one of my go to guitars in the studio and for jamming. It can pretty much do anything.
I bought a '91 American Standard Tele new but could never get on with it until I found the right person to set it up in '18. It played 110% better and I made a personal vow to play only the Tele at my band's many gigs for 1yr. I leave my guitars totally stock and play them 'as is'. Observations so far are I hate the pickup selector switch banging on my hand all the time, the physical balance weightwise is fantastic, rosewood neck is NOT the tonal influencer I thought it would be vs maple (I can't name them but wood studies have backed this up) and it cuts through on stage all night long. Unlike my Strat Pluses there are certain spots on the neck where the E, B or G strings sound thuddy with no sparkle. Who knows why (high or low action, it still does it). Overall I'm extremely happy with it and would highly recommend one.
I was always a Gibson player, until I bought my first tele, it was a Japanese paisley. Next was a Mexican tele and then a ritchie kotzen edition. Looking at a US made thinline next
I love that there’s always another tele just subtly sitting in the background… well done Mr Baker.
The older telecasters I would see in the sixties and seventys had only one bridge saddle per two strings so only three string saddles and they were hardly ever straight. Always at an angle for intonation. They also had a chrome cover that covered the bridge and pick up. The cover was removable so many of us used the cover as an ashtray. If I remember correctly that what the cover was actually called among musicians.. Fender may have even called it that!?!
I don't know if anyone has commented on the riff you are playing at the end , if you wrote that man it's bad ass... Definitely develop it if you haven't already or if it's not a cover , I think it's dope
Please do one for Les Pauls
Keith Richards's Mccawber? That was different & transformational.
I've noticed that PAFs sound "better" when used with a longer scale neck (25.5 vs 24.75). The mud goes away. I noticed this when I bought my first Gibson Johnny A.
Great vid! Thanks.
Fender Teles are great, no doubt. However, I stumbled upon a GREAT Tele-style guitar last week by chance. It is a Michael Kelly Enlightened 55. Basic Tele body shape, with a belly contour in back and forearm contour on the front, so it is very comfortable. Very smooth, comfortable and fast maple neck. Medium jumbo frets with a compound-radius fretboard. Mini-humbucker at the neck and regular hummer at the bridge, plus coil-splitting on both, so a very broad sonic palette. The cherry on top is the killer looks this axe has. This is definitely worth checking out as a very nice Tele, for anyone.
I got a used Squier Tele and I really like it, maybe I'll buy a Fender someday but I don't really need it since I love the one I got.
Thanks! Great history of the early mods/changes!!! LOVE the blend knob!
Great video, love the telecaster!
have 3 tele's but you hit on a point the f hole and the hollow body. can't find the original but the squier starcaster is an animal that gives you the fender neck wit twin humbuckers i love it my pro 2 is pissed cause i play the starcaster more.
I have an 8-string Multiscale Tele style guitar, for the djent. Does that count? Lol 🤷♂️
That's sick
Dude I enjoyed the history behind the Tele you have us! I don’t know that I ‘need’ a Tele...my style is melodic death metal and not so sure a Tele would work for that 🤘
I want a traditional Tele one day but I love my Joe Trohman Signature Squier Tele. I know it's not particularly authentic but what I do love is the neck. I have a MIM Strat that's nice but it's only the 9.5" radius and frankly almost everything else I have is 12" and so does the JT. It's one of my go to guitars just because it feels so easy to play and I'm anything but a professional. My other go to is an old pre-lawsuit era SG copy from Japan. Somehow the name fell off or was removed from the headstock before I got it for my 15th birthday so I have no idea who built it. Besides I've modded it so much it barely resembles the original configuration.
I love my Teles. I have two Teles and one LP. The Teles are the ones I play 90% of the time. On paper, the Les Paul should be the more versatile of the two, with separate volume and tone controls for each pickup. However, that just has not been my experience. The Tele's "playability" is better for me, as well as the variety of tones I can get. That said, by all means do a video on the Les Paul, and the Strat, which I've always considered the best looking electric guitar--the Strat is almost sculptural.
I like this video a lot and I found it very interesting. Forgive me, but I must say that at 13:20 it was a little disappointing that you talked about how the Tele deluxe is such a beast, but then you didn’t play it! You gave examples using every other guitar.
They actualy laughed at Leo fender boy he realy did have the last laugh thanks leo for your brilliant invention love teles and strats.
I'm getting my first guitar for Christmas
My dad is getting me a squier telecaster and I can't wait
I say first cus it'll be the first good guitar cus my first guitar will be a cheapo glarry Stratocaster
Fun fact, I heard Brian May himself in the Star Licks videotape say that they ('they' probably being the producer), quote: "made me play the telecaster" for the solo in Crazy Little Thing Called Love.