anyone else a huge fan of the master of the telecaster, albert collins, too? the first time i heard him play was in the movie, "adventures in babysitting," and i was hooked since. my buddy from fonatana told me that they're releasing a live DVD of his called "Live at Montreux."
if you never heard him play, you gotta right now! there's some songs on his officialy myspace page, go check him out & tell me what you guys think. theres also a stream of his music that i found http://fontana.edgeboss.net/wmedia/fontana/albertcollins/01_icemanat192-1.wax
-sean j.
Link please
It's the rock that gives the stream its music . . . and the stream that gives the rock its roll.
alebert collins is ice cool, such a showman as well as a nifty blues player 8) I have a live album from late 1992-93 which is phenomenal despite it being at the end of his illness. he has a truly original sound - I've not heard anyone playing a telecaster sound like him.
Used to listen to his stuff while at university. "Mastercharge ... Bank Americard* ... jus' charge it!"
* Visa was Bank Americard all those years ago!
-=tension & release=-
AC is another master of the tele. he has been in my CD rack for years.
He's great! Just a little curious though...do you really consider what he's playing a tele? I mean, it looks like a tele but with that humbucker at the neck a plays like something a little different, and isn't a guitar more then it's looks? Kinda funny that someone who is considered Master of the Tele would play a tele, sort of. Any thoughts?
I guess Keith Richards plays a tele with a bucker in it, and everyone will surely say he counts as a telecaster player, as everyone probably thinks of him when they see a ash butterscotch telecaster. But I think it's an interesting, if maybe also a silly question: what constitutes as a tele?
in 1972 Fender came out with a tele that had a humbucker in the neck position. Tele Custom I think it was. it had the tele headstock.
and soon after, Fenfder made a tele with a strat headstock and some other pickup config. ..if I remember.
but what makes a tele a tele?
Fender label for sure.
Reverend makes a tele style with a bucker at the neck. the headstock is very similar.
for me Fender makes teles and any one else make copies of tele 'style'.
yup, yup, gotta agree with dogbite here - given the number of variants on the original Les Pauls, Strats, and Teles (not to mention SGs and others, lol) put out by Gibson and Fender over the years, the only way these labels have any meaning is if we conclude that a Tele/insert other icon-guitar name here is a Tele if Fender/Gibson/originating brand calls it a Tele/whatever.
Oh, and while AC is probably most reknown for playing a humbucking Tele, he did have and played SC Teles too. And a quick trawl through Google images or any Rolling Stones book with pics will show Keef has SC Tele's too. Sorry, Im a total blues-head, lol.
in 1972 Fender came out with a tele that had a humbucker in the neck position. Tele Custom I think it was. it had the tele headstock.
and soon after, Fenfder made a tele with a strat headstock and some other pickup config. ..if I remember.
but what makes a tele a tele?
Fender label for sure.
Reverend makes a tele style with a bucker at the neck. the headstock is very similar.
for me Fender makes teles and any one else make copies of tele 'style'.
Hey,I play G&L's and Leo designed 'em so they are fenders to me. :D
Not made by that HUGE monster company that calls itself fender. :roll:
A "real" tele is supposed to have an ash bodie and a maple {NO rosewood} neck/fingerboard with low output vintage single coils.
A low output,boxie sounding neck pup and an ashtray,3 saddle bridge,with an angled pup with a brass plate on the bottom.
I never liked the boxie,low output neck pup. :(
I've always changed them and I like rosewood so I have it on 2 of my tele's.
I also prefer P90's to alnico single coils so they are in my "tele's". :mrgreen:
JJ
I also like 4 and 5 way toggles on mine for a wider range of sounds.
Albert is one of my favorite blues players.
I was fortunate enough to see him in his prime at a picnic. Debbie Davies was playin' with him.
It was special.
