She's a beauty. A one-in-a-million Tele, and the black with white binding and paint works well with the pointy Jackson headstock. Really, it'd work great with a maple neck and bog-standard Tele headstock, but this does look good like this. And all things told, I'd prefer a standard bridge instead of a humbucker. Stacked humbucker, maybe. And clearly, this would be for harder-rocking alt-country, moving into slightly gothic southern rock. But it looks so cool.
Heck, nothing says you couldn't play Stones on that thing. And it'll love being played with thin strings, so I can go back to bridge cables on my other one.
In other news, Sam Ash has Blue Flower and Pink Paisley Teles. $1000 is the web price. I'm guessing that eventually I'll see 'em for $800, then the price will rise again. And, unfortunately, I don't think there's any way I can get one. (Among others, the Pink Paisley is played by James Burton, Sue Foley and Brad Paisley. Who, besides Jack Pribek, plays a Blue Flower?)
I feel like I should have a third thing. I reall don't. Well, kinda. Wednesday was mostly in F, and it rocked anyway. I sounded good!
4 comments:
I'm not a huge Tele fan (though I'm scared that if I tried one I might convert), but that baby's got some serious mojo going on. You can just see Old Nick playing it at midnight, down at the crossroads...
It's a whole different thing, but it's a wonderful axe. There's no place to hide on a Tele.
One of us.... One of us....
But yeah, it looks just so cool.
I've got to disagree here...that thing looks wrong.
Is the wrongness anything that a Tele-style maple neck from Warmoth wouldn't fix?
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