00:00Thank you
00:35so second fender from gary's collection and he didn't play an awful lot of fenders so the ones
00:40he did uh you bet are going to be pretty special which is indeed the case with this so this
00:45is um
00:46uh a 63 but it's it's not completely original and gary bought it that way in the 80s
00:51um and i believe he called it his workhorse okay so and that kind of leaps out straight away doesn't
00:58it so perhaps you can tell us why why this one is that's fairly indicative of most telecasters
01:02um in my experience yeah i mean the the neck if nothing else is uh slab which would imply kind
01:08of early 62 i guess at the very latest um it's amazing though uh i've fallen a little bit in
01:13love with this one um it's just shouty and loud in the nicest possible way it's like you pick up
01:20certain guitars and it's feels like it's playing a piano everything's kind of equal every every note
01:25kind of leaps out to the kind of same extent you know which i guess you could interpret it as
01:28a
01:29negative you could interpret that as being kind of one dimensional but there's just a just a
01:33brilliance about it you know which everything kind of wants to leap off the fretboard and do most of
01:37the work for you um which is great because it means i have to do less work then but um
01:41it's just great i
01:42mean you know straight away you know before i plugged it in just just strummed it and it's alive it's
01:48kind of resonating and vibrating through body you know which is usually a pretty good sign
01:54yeah it's interesting this because uh when you when you play it in country you know back to back
01:59with the strat you notice that the bottom end is a lot looser it's it's it's louder it's more raucous
02:04in general it's a sort of wilder guitar altogether isn't it yeah i mean we're tuned down as well which
02:08i guess straight away kind of lends itself to sound a little bit more kind of swampy but what it
02:13is
02:13about finding guitars that seem to lend themselves so well to be down tuned i don't know but it seems
02:17to
02:17just open them up and you kind of get this extra just low-end response you know which is is
02:24not
02:24boomy it's not bellowy it's none of the kind of um pejorative b words apparently but just you know
02:30very um just open sounding and all this beautiful clarity so uh yeah very impressive guitar and much
02:37much as we were saying with the strat i mean the almost the outline of the guitar tells us almost
02:43nothing what it will sound like because this is not one of these shrill tellies it's not one of
02:47these um piano like tellies at all it's so it's it's kind of almost a you know dare i say
02:51it a
02:52rather rather gibson humbuckery yeah in some respects yeah absolutely there's there's definitely
02:56an edge of that it's um i mean this you know relative to what we were talking about earlier in
03:01terms of it feeling like more of a gary guitar this would be the type of guitar that i would
03:06associate
03:07with with gary's style a little bit more you know it's kind of um a bit more forthright a bit
03:11more
03:11kind of strident and aggressive i guess you know it kind of but but still at the same time no
03:16no
03:16piercing highs that you can sometimes sometimes associate with the telly it's just um beautifully
03:22even throughout it's uh yeah gorgeous sound instrument what do you look for in a telly because
03:26they again just like strats they can they can be all things to all people in in their variety so
03:32what kind of telly would you reach for were you using one good question um yeah i guess
03:39fundamentally you want it's obviously i guess versatility is a word that's sort of very
03:43commonly associated with a with a telecaster they can theoretically be that kind of all things to
03:48all men all of my favorite telecasters are um it's hard it's hard to kind of try and articulate
03:55there's just a kind of like an openness to them where it like that kind of piano-esque response that
04:01i was
04:01just kind of describing um it feels like it's just a particularly open resonant uh wide sounding
04:09guitar appreciate none of those words makes particular sense when you're trying to describe
04:13the sound you know but um yeah it's it's hard to put into words it just it's one of those
04:19things that
04:19you kind of know the moment you pick it up if it feels like it's just going to ring and
04:23resonate for
04:23days and this you know is one of those guitars it's just a kind of like a loudness to it
04:29if nothing
04:29else you know you kind of play a chord and it's just
04:35yeah just rings like a bell i know exactly what you mean i think i'm glad you do because i
04:40don't
04:40because i think when we've we've looked at sort of other other models of guitar in the past and
04:46especially vintage ones i think what separates really nice guitars often electrics that is from
04:51um you know sort of so-so ones is that instead of the note being like a kind of solid
04:56core and not much else around it these ones seem to have a lot more going on around the sort
05:00of yeah
05:01main kind of point of the note yeah all of these overtones and the tones um flying around it's uh
05:08i think that's probably something i would apply to most of the great guitars i played is you feel
05:13like you're getting all of these extra kind of beautiful rich harmonics flying around in addition
05:18to the the fundamental note that you're playing and it just lends itself to playing more musically
05:25or at least trying to anyway you know if you feel like it's drawing these extra notes out of you
05:29which you're not necessarily accustomed to hearing when you just play one note it's just such an
05:34inherently musical experience to that that um it just makes playing it more enjoyable which makes
05:40the music that you make hopefully more enjoyable you know it's um that's generally my approach to gear
05:45i guess is you know whether or not the person in the back row of the auditorium can you know
05:50differentiate between a ts808 or a ts9 is kind of irrelevant if it makes you play differently
05:56whatever that is whether it's an extra weetabix that morning or whether it's a guitar that's
06:00drawing that out of you that's what will translate that's what will transcend to that person in the
06:05back of the room you know and there's just certain guitars like this one which you pick up and are
06:08just a joy to play they just draw music out of you well we've talked um talked about how this
06:13guitar
06:13sounds let's hear a few of the pickup sounds uh one by one uh so neck pickup first and foremost
06:22so
06:31so
06:32so
06:32so
07:03Middle position.
07:50Then, push pickup.
07:52Then, push pickup.
08:22Then, push pickup.
08:55That bridge pickup though, it's nuts, isn't it?
08:58You think, that sounds nice all the way through to the bridge and you go, Jesus.
09:01Yeah, yeah, it takes a ride off.
09:02Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:33Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:40Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:14I love how, you know, it's the simplest of guitars.
10:17There's three pickup sounds, a bridge that looks like an ashtray and you can, it's an orchestra.
10:26Bolt that to that bit and away you go.
10:28Yeah.
10:28There's something, I think, weirdly liberating around, like, not having too many options.
10:34That's always been, and far be it from me to criticize Leo in any way, shape or form, but, like,
10:41this almost too much on a strat sometimes in terms of, you know, options, which I appreciate maybe, you know,
10:47sacrilege to some people, I guess, where you want that versatility.
10:49You want all of those little extra different kind of nuances and stuff, but there's something strangely focusing about a
10:56guitar that doesn't offer all of that.
10:57It just focuses your mind solely on what you're meant to be doing.
11:01Stick to three chords.
11:02Don't make it too difficult, you know, just kind of, yeah, rock out and enjoy it.
11:06So, yes, Tele's the one, isn't it?
11:09Yeah.
11:10Nailed it first time.
