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Robbin Ford..
Don Rich
I'm not 100% certain but these two tunes may be Telecaster-driven......
"Go And Say Goodbye" -- Buffalo Springfield (Stephen Stills)
"Grizzly Bear" -- The Youngbloods (Jerry Corbitt)
They both have 'the twang'.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
Songs.
"Haleluiah"- JB on a 90's MIM toploader. The amp with the candles on it looks like it could be a Supro. But he doesn't sound like LZ I or II.
"You Ain't Going Nowhere"- The Byrds w/Clarence White on the bendy Tele.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Telecasters were also used on several McCartney albums, McCartney and Band on the Run to name two. Which songs? I don't know.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
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Walk of Life (Brothers In Arms, 1985) (actually a red Schecter Tele)
Solid Rock ( Making Movies 1980)
Both great fun to play.
(plus a few other tracks that don't qualify as "famous" )
When You point your finger 'cause your plan fell through, you've got 3 more fingers pointing back at you.
Zeppelin-------first album (James Patrick Page)
"Stairway To Heaven" solo
Roy Buchanan-------all his good stuff
Hendrix---"Purple Haze" and "Fire"
John Hall (Orleans)---"Still The One"
Booker T and the MGs---"Green Onions" and "Melting Pot" (Steve Cropper)........probably all Steve Cropper
Andy Summers--Police
Carl Perkins--"Blue Suede Shoes"
Mike Stern---most tunes ('bucker in the neck)
Arlen Roth----(alot) "Unchained Melody" (if you can find it)
"My flesh and my heart fail...but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
PS. 73:26
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Jerry Donahue..
Jeeze!
How did I not think to mention any Stax track featuring Steve Cropper??
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Bodhisattva," the main solo by Denny. Admittedly, it's a heavily modded Tele, but that's an important solo.... for most rockers, the first time we ever heard somebody play bebop lines.
Breakdown Tom Petty
Mike's 52
FWIW i have the JJ Hellecaster and JERRY Donohue STRAT
very interesting guitars
That's a '50 Broadcaster, Mike Campbell used back then.
But I guess it still counts.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"My flesh and my heart fail...but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
PS. 73:26
MY JAMS--
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If you find a link to the article I'd love to read it, refin. On his website is a gear page but I don't ever recollect seeing a Tele in any of the pics. Mebbe he used one "way back when".
I'm just thankful that both of the John Hall Band albums were finally released on a single CD last year......"Crazy" is one of my favorite Strat tunes.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes is an Esquire/Tele player. How could we forget him? Though he equally plays his 335 and Zemaitis, here's one of his "signature" sounds, from way early on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjq5Rq4sSZc
Jimmy Page "Since I've Been Loving You"
Skunk Baxter / Elliot Randall "Reelin' in the Years"
Billy Gibbons "Jesus Just Left Chicago" ('52 Broadcaster)
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"My flesh and my heart fail...but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
PS. 73:26
MY JAMS--
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I've got a couple Gibsons and spend a little time over there also.
The consensus (from guys that have been around much longer than me and are old enough to have been there) is that the LZ III version of "Since I've Been Loving You" is indeed a Tele song.
Now Icould be wrong and not to be snarky, but Page is a God over there and I believe they'd claim it to be a Les Paul song if their was any way in hell they could get away with it!
That solo is all Randall (either Baxter and/or Dias probably played the repeating harmony figure), and it was for sure a crazy, hacked-up Stratocaster that Randall still calls "TheStrat."
http://www.elliott-randall.com/strat.htm
- Officer Jim of the Steely Dan Police
Shenandoah - Bill Frisell on the East/West album.
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
I thought on the album is sounded like an in betwen Strat.
I was going by an "Old Grey Whistle Test" clip from the '70s that shows both Elliot and Skunk playin' Teles.
It appears Skunks Tele is equiped with deArmond or Dynasonic pups. Hard to see what Elliot's Tele is equiped with.
Dan - I don't think Elliot Randall played live with the band. The guy you're thinking of - bearded, heavy-set dude with a Fat Tele that seems to have a few too many switches - is Denny Dias, a be-bopper who was in Steely Dan before anybody (he played the killer solo on "Bodhisattva").
Baxter did play lead on that song when they played live, but it's Randall and his humbucker-in-the-neck Strat on the record. ANd it's for sure Baxter and Dias in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrI_mIT6PQ
I see this is after Becker inexplicably ditched his hacked P-bass for that Firebird. And what the flip... is Baxter playing through a VT-22????!? No wonder they canned him.
Thanks for the diversion that lead me to... been watching Buckley videos for half an hour! I have the "Grace" album, but still... his talent always floors me: writer, singer, composer, arranger and gobs of mojo. What a loss. This time I was giving big props to the band -- that Big Drum sound on the other stuff is just terrific and the low end is always locked in. Doubling all the rhythm on acoustic just makes it all sound so rich too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8JoMhgjRw
Another cool tune that's not really characteristic Telecaster is Rush's One Little Victory off the Vapor Trails album. Saw a clip of it recently and Lifeson was playing a Tele.
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
+1 on that! My band plays "Crazy" in our shows and most people don't remember who the artist was... and we often get asked about it and whether its an original. A very cool song indeed!I'm just thankful that both of the John Hall Band albums were finally released on a single CD last year......"Crazy" is one of my favorite Strat tunes.
Love for Sale by the Georgia Satellites...guitarist is Dan Baird I think.
Remember! It is the indian, not the arrow! Although the arrow can help.
Brad Paisley..
Doesn't Avril Lavigne play a Tele;-)
Clapton in his early years with Yardbirds mainly used a Fiesta red Tele with rosewood fingerboard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfuOSHVIow
Marco
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"Give God a solo!"
'94 American Std. Strat Black/ Maple
'96 Epi EJ-200VS Vintage Sunburst
'99 Epi Sheraton II Natural
'04 Epi Les Paul Standard Cherry Sunburst
'06 Parts-o-caster Arctic white / Maple
'96 Marshall JTM-60
I was going to say that, but especially Dave's Tele on "Dead Flowers' from Home, Home on The Road
Also Roy Buchanan's 'Livestock".....that thing smokes
Vince Gill is absolutely sick and I aint a big C & W guy, but the way he plays, makes me love it
MIke Campbell and Tom Petty....you name the song ( well 95% anyway)
Dave Davies of the Kinks: from about the mid80ies he's mainly used a tele elite, featured on all Kinks records from Think Visual to To the Bone (1996), the last Kinks disc so far. It was also used in most live appearances also, documented on countless TVshows around the world. He's also mainly used a Tele for his solo shows the last 10 years (shows sceduled for feb 2010 in the US).
Mama Tried.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Brian May on 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'
Henley's 'Boys of Summer' [Campbell w/ his Broadcaster?]
Dobie Gray's 'Drift Away' [Reggie Young maybe?]
Ray Flacke w/ Ricky Skaggs
James Burton on old Ricky Nelson hits [and on 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes', the Judy Collins LP]
...my go-to Tele example, R. Ford on 'My Love Will Never Die' from the Blue Line album
oops, almost forgot Jeff Beck on the Yardbird albums of the '60s
"We Ain't Got Nothing Yet", The Blues Magoos, 1966
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."