always been playing and gigging my les paul studio for 5 yrs, and occasional other humbucker guitars. Recently bought a mexican strat that was nice but didnt quite do it for me. Ive just bought a nearly new tele and its a revelation to me. i wasnt expecting it to be so different from a strat, i was expecting lots of "twang", which it has but it also gives me a good rock bite when i want. Im loving this guitar, been playing it all day. Gonna try it out with band on monday just to be sure, all being well il be gigging with it next saturday. Oh, yeah which tele is it? A butterscotch squier affinity picked up for £100. I know the body's a little thinner than a regular tele and the hardware is not the best but im so bloody impressed with it. Maybe when funds are available il look at the fenders teles.. I could become a tele addict.
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And butterscotch is the colour to have.
My band mates always comment that I play my SG much more gently than my tele. Not sure why it is, but I love thrashing the tele.
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Lots of my friends have nice guitars, but the only one I ever want to steal is an Affinity Tele with a stock bridge pickup and an Oil City Filtertron type in the neck.