• Registered: 2009-03-23
  • Posts: 70

Re: tele time ?

John 5 uses a rocked up tele aswel for his heavy stuff and extreme country.  Pretty mental player!

  • Registered: 2010-02-08
  • Posts: 63

Re: tele time ?

mickieblue wrote:

John 5 uses a rocked up tele aswel for his heavy stuff and extreme country.  Pretty mental player!

what pray tell is extreme country?

  • Registered: 2009-03-23
  • Posts: 70

Re: tele time ?

Ha. Something I call his stuff really.  Briliant playing.  First time I heard him doing this I couldn't believe that he was then Marilyn Manson's guitarist. Take a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_d0lcH424

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8FO5B-a … re=related

Extreme country. Ha   big_smile

  • Registered: 2010-02-08
  • Posts: 63

Re: tele time ?

mickieblue wrote:

Ha. Something I call his stuff really.  Briliant playing.  First time I heard him doing this I couldn't believe that he was then Marilyn Manson's guitarist. Take a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_d0lcH424

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8FO5B-a … re=related

Extreme country. Ha   big_smile

John 5 is an impressive player

  • From: South Brunswick, NJ USA
  • Registered: 2006-04-21
  • Posts: 133

Re: tele time ?

bill6string wrote:

what about PRS guitars? anyone here a fan or not?

PRS makes an absolutely beautiful guitar...almost too refined for my tastes though.  I also prefer the Gibsons shorter scale length.  They are pretty but I never liked the finishes on the PRS guitars I've tried - too thick in my opinion.  I always perceived that a lot of lost tone was buried under there somewhere.  I prefer the tone and feel of a nitrocellulose finish.  However, I've read recently that PRS now offers nitro finishes on some of their newer guitars...I will have too try one of these out one day.

Russ B.

24 Reply by ModTourMan (edited by ModTourMan 2010-03-05 03:14:10)

  • From: South Brunswick, NJ USA
  • Registered: 2006-04-21
  • Posts: 133

Re: tele time ?

Another nice guitar to have around is an old Danelectro with lipstick tube pickups.  I picked up and old 60's era Silvertone 1448 (amp in case model) last year.  There still fairly inexpensive for a "vintage" guitar.  The Danelectros have a unique tone and they are AWESOME for slide...just tune her up to open G or E and GO!

Russ B.
  • Registered: 2009-10-27
  • Posts: 250

Re: tele time ?

Nicely put, IMO, much, much more difficult to play a Strat or Tele then a Les Paul, but after you win the fight with a Strat, Tele, hard pressed to go back to a Les Paul- at least this is what happen to me. 

ModTourMan wrote:

I have and always will love Les Pauls the most but someday...someday...I hope I'm man enough to play a Tele!  I don't think I quite have the skills to tame that guitar yet!  There's no place to hide when your trying to tame that deceptively simple plank!