Gooseman":1lzxrnja said:
Shoot me now, but I find Telecasters in general to be the ugliest guitar ever.
I know, I get flack for this opinion all the time. I just don't get it. It is a plank of wood.
Here here!! I have to agree with you... In fact, Teles used to make me angry, just the mere sight of them!! I loathed them, and just never, ever, ever understood their primitive gross backwards simplistic fugliness.
Problem is now I must have one. I am unsure as to when or how the paradigm shift occured, but it did. I hate it so much I love it? I dunno. You gotta understand I've had a real hate-on for teles for about, oh, 30 years

One day this amp arrives at my door - the Diezel Hagen. I play it. I come to realize that although this amp is probably one of the coolest meanest detune-ready thunder god amps out there, it has this absolutely outstanding clean. One of the best cleans I've ever heard in my LIFE!! So good in fact, I thought to myself, "hmmmm, wonder what a real country twanger would sound like through this??", and perhaps henceforth, my urge to get a Tele was born...
Now, to the OP - that Jem looks like ET dropped acid, ate Mexican food and shat this concept of a guitar out. Horrible.
As for the other red headed step child midway down - at least it has some wood to it that's visible...making it slightly less insulting.
But if someone pulled that Jem outta their case during an audition? Hellfire, I'd run...
