He’s a huge reason I’m buying my first Tele later this month.
When I first started playing my uncle got me into the Hellecasters and EJ, because of them I’ve always had an interest and admiration for that playing, even though country has never been my thing. And then you got guys like Brent Hinds who can throw the chicken pickin into a drop tuned metal song and it’s about time I start digging into that kind of playing.
That huge Tele tone definitely got me hankering to jump into that world. I was watching Shredding with Shifty last week and Brad was on, there’s one point he hits an open E, he’s not even mic’d up and you can just hear how fucking huge it sounds, just a bit of breakup and a Tele straight in. I cannot wait to fuck around with those kinds of tones.