The Curt "Chubtone" Anderson Tele Education Thread

[rupe]

Curt is suffering from a terrible affliction...a complete lack of Telecaster appreciation (few people are aware that 1 in 4 former hair metal posers suffer from this condition). In order to help him overcome this tragic malady, I'm hoping this thread can infuse him with some vital Tele goodness.

Got a favorite Tele tune or solo? Please help a fine soul like Curt and post them up here...he can only beat this with our help.

Go to 5:35 for the lead in to perhaps the greatest recorded solo of all time:

 

[Digital Jams]

Modified but still a tele

 

[rlord1974]

Certainly not your 'traditional' Tele tonality, but shows its versatility. Even hair metal poseurs can coax some "leather pant-approved" tones from a Tele.....

 

[50MkII]

When I first started playing I could not see the point in a tele-rock, etc. combination thinking it was just something that I did not to look at and could not see myself owning one. Come full circle, it is on my guitar want/wish list due to these guys...

One of my favorite PT tunes that is sorely underrated.

Live version.

"Lllllllooorrrrddddddd!!!..."

Back around 2005 I saw George Lynch play the entire show consisting of Dokken and Lynch Mob material with a standard Fender Tele (want to say late 60's- early 70) only one guitar with his usual guitar suspects in the backdrop waiting but received no use, no vibrato! One of the best performances I have seen to date.

Consider yourself schooled by the teachers. 'nuff said.

 

[Rogue]

Tele's are cool. However, they are the coolest when some guy with mad chicken pickin skills sits with one.

 

[rupe]

"Lllllllooorrrrddddddd!!!..."

I always assumed he played a Les Paul on that...was it really a Tele? Great tune!

 

[Digital Jams]

 

[Heritage Softail]

Add the rumors of Zep II being done on a Tele....

 

[50MkII]

It was not until a friend of mine who was friends with PT told me about the tele being used on the Montrose and PT albums that I looked into it. Dispelled my myths of a tele not being up to the task of rockin' hard.

 

[racerevlon]

I read somewhere that the Telecaster is the most-recorded guitar of all-time.

My Tele recipe for success. Go get a Nice (you'll have to play a few) Butterscotch Squier Affinity Tele and upgrade to Dimarzio Area T Neck and Air Norton T bridge pickups. Proceed to rock the house.

 

[Chubtone]

First of all, I do not have a problem!

Secondly, even if I did have a problem, which I don't, I could easily just through the power of my mind, correct the problem, if I wanted to.

However, I do not want to.

I have a couple of stories that prove that the Tele has no place in my life.

The first one being in high school I went on a canoe trip with a youth group. It was brutal. The wind was blowing fiercely against us as we tried to make our way to the camping spot. It was over 100 degrees and there was no shade over the river. The canoe itself was aluminum and was reflecting the sun onto us to burn us even worse. We got so sunburned that day and were just dead tired when we finally made the campsite 3 hours after dark and 6 hours later than we were supposed to make it. Everytime I see a Tele, I am reminded of the canoe trip from hell and that damn paddle that would not help us get where we were trying to go.

The next story is more recent.

The guitar teacher at my store is younger than I am and is also a member at Rig Talk. He kept singing the virtues of the Tele and bringing some nicer ESP Tele in and playing that thing in his lessons. Of course the younger guys that would come in for lessons would sit down for their first lesson and see him with that guitar and quickly excuse themselves to use the restroom. They would come ask me if I had any teachers that could teach them METAL! I tried to explain that the guy in there did play metal and just try not to look at the guitar.

One day, the teacher needed some extra money and with great pain he decided to sell his ESP Tele. He asked if he could throw it up on the wall and I said OK, as long as it was somewhere that I couldn't really see it. So he did. AND THAT GUITAR SOLD ALMOST IMMEDIATELY! To a chick! That played country!

The defense rests.

 

[rlord1974]

.....in high school I went on a canoe trip with a youth group. It was brutal. The wind was blowing fiercely against us as we tried to make our way to the camping spot. It was over 100 degrees and there was no shade over the river. The canoe itself was aluminum and was reflecting the sun onto us to burn us even worse.

Now Curt, when you say a canoe trip in aluminum canoes, you really mean "Yankee Canoes", such as this one, correct?

And, when you say it was brutal, windy and hot, you really mean it was a day like this, correct?

And, you want sympathy for this?

Try a Canadian canoe trip, in one of these, with mosquitos the size of your hand sucking your blood like little vampires.....

 

[rupe]

First of all, I do not have a problem!

Secondly, even if I did have a problem, which I don't, I could easily just through the power of my mind, correct the problem, if I wanted to.

However, I do not want to.

I have a couple of stories that prove that the Tele has no place in my life.

The first one being in high school I went on a canoe trip with a youth group. It was brutal. The wind was blowing fiercely against us as we tried to make our way to the camping spot. It was over 100 degrees and there was no shade over the river. The canoe itself was aluminum and was reflecting the sun onto us to burn us even worse. We got so sunburned that day and were just dead tired when we finally made the campsite 3 hours after dark and 6 hours later than we were supposed to make it. Everytime I see a Tele, I am reminded of the canoe trip from hell and that damn paddle that would not help us get where we were trying to go.

The next story is more recent.

The guitar teacher at my store is younger than I am and is also a member at Rig Talk. He kept singing the virtues of the Tele and bringing some nicer ESP Tele in and playing that thing in his lessons. Of course the younger guys that would come in for lessons would sit down for their first lesson and see him with that guitar and quickly excuse themselves to use the restroom. They would come ask me if I had any teachers that could teach them METAL! I tried to explain that the guy in there did play metal and just try not to look at the guitar.

One day, the teacher needed some extra money and with great pain he decided to sell his ESP Tele. He asked if he could throw it up on the wall and I said OK, as long as it was somewhere that I couldn't really see it. So he did. AND THAT GUITAR SOLD ALMOST IMMEDIATELY! To a chick! That played country!

The defense rests.

I had no idea what you'd been through...mojo sent

 

[Chubtone]

Now Curt, when you say a canoe trip in aluminum canoes, you really mean "Yankee Canoes", such as this one, correct?

Bah, I lived in Chicago for 7 years. This canoe trip took place in Wisconsin, so I get you on the mosquitos. I forgot to mention the humidity. You know what that did to my Greg Brady hair since my parents were still winning the battle over how long my hair could get?

 

[Chubtone]

I had no idea what you'd been through...mojo sent

See? You need to walk a mile in a man's shoes before you judge him. Finally some well deserved sympathy.

 

[Bob Savage]

This has got to be the ugliest thread I've ever laid my eyes on.

 

[Meathead]

When you become a man...
when you are finished idolizing guitarists that wore spandex and eyeliner...
tired of guitarists that used a Floyd Rose with a locking nut and reached for it when they were out of ideas
bored with guitarists that played chugga chugga on the E or A or D string (or E string tuned down to a D string) in every single song that they ever wrote...

...a tele will come looking for you.

 

[rlord1974]

And so it was written.

 

[Chubtone]

When you become a man...
when you are finished idolizing guitarists that wore spandex and eyeliner...
tired of guitarists that used a Floyd Rose with a locking nut and reached for it when they were out of ideas
bored with guitarists that played chugga chugga on the E or A or D string (or E string tuned down to a D string) in every single song that they ever wrote...

...a tele will come looking for you.

LOL, I have no desire to become a man.

 

[Meathead]

When you become a man...
when you are finished idolizing guitarists that wore spandex and eyeliner...
tired of guitarists that used a Floyd Rose with a locking nut and reached for it when they were out of ideas
bored with guitarists that played chugga chugga on the E or A or D string (or E string tuned down to a D string) in every single song that they ever wrote...

...a tele will come looking for you.

LOL, I have no desire to become a man.

Then a tele will not come looking for you.

You will live the rest of your days clinging to hope and alone, with just a chuga chuga sound echoing endlessly in your dreams as you are surrounded by spandex and ankle high leather boots with little chains dangling from them covered with sweaty leg warmers.