strats or teles

[kid a]

should i buy a strat or a tele?

[zepp_rules]

it's a matter of preference. i personally like the feel of the tele better and i've been really happy with mine. that's just me however. some like the strat better.

my reccomendation is: go to a guitar store play both, and see what feels right, which sound you like most. don't limit yourself either. try other brands as well. gibson for example makes excellent guitars, however if you don't want to spend that much money, try epiphone or ibanez. experiment, play around see what you like.

[Dimebag_69!]

TELES SUCK

STRATS ARE THE BEST!

[Bardsley]

Wow, it'a amazing that a company that puts out one great guitar should put as much work into making another and have it totally suck. Have you ever thought that it's not the guitar that sucks?

[skee1]

I agree with the first reply!
Try them both out .Then u decide which one feals the best.
Now if your going to get into metal or alot of Rock,
I would recemend the strat.
I also own a hot-rod tele plus a strat.
Thier both alittle souped up.
Anyway i recemend the strat for the extra frets it has.
The tele don't have as many frets for playing up the neck.

Mark

[fendermonkey77]

I love them both so much...I couldn't decide....so I bought both. Find out what you like...and buy it.

[Zeppelin]

altough i myself prefer the strat, a telecaster may have some abilities the strat doesnt have. it's a whole different world, however if you like to use a tremolo bar, you must remember that a telecaster comes with a hard-tail bridge

[Hootayah]

I don't know how you can play either.
They sound great but man, those volume control knobs can break your knuckes when you strum or play power chords.

[Raskolnikov]

I own a strat and a tele. They're both awesome guitars, play well, and both have unique tones. Even Larry LaLonde who spends most of his time on a PRS these days and used a 70's strat with a floyd rose vibrato back in his Possessed/ early Primus years likes Teles.

My suggestion is get what you like best now, and then add to your collection later.

[Bardsley]

Alternatively, just choose the best looking guitar in the store. I have decided to launch a campaign that encourages superficiality. Much as I think the sound of a strat suits me better, it is probably because I think they look cooler that I think that. Of course, what looks best is subjective, but a strat is just right for me.

[Dimebag_69!]

teles suck....you guys suck

[Bardsley]

It is also amazing that someone with no brain is able to type almost coherent sentences. You even went to the trouble of writing "you" rather than "u", truly inspired. From now on can there be conditions for gaining membership to this site? Something along the lines of "do you actually have a brain, and something others might consider even remotely worthwhile to contribute to a discussion?"

[Kevin Taylor]

Don't worry, he's been told. Hopefully it's cause he's new around here.
If ya see stuff like that in the future just ignore it. If I, or any other moderator catches it in time we can just erase it.

[Dimebag_69!]

wankers!

[Bardsley]

hee hee, it is nice to have amuzing interludes though, I think I'm going to have to start interjecting posts with this sort of thing, quite funny.

[blackrose]

fender suck. get an ibanez. but back to the question, get a strat because a tele is more for less intense crap like blues and country and worse for actually playing music. of course, its not like a strat is all that much better (im severely anti-fender), so just pick what one is cheaper.

[Lordathestrings]

...whose favourite guitar is a Telecaster?

Most of the electric guitar tracks on Led Zeppelin's albums were not recorded with his Les Paul!

[Zeppelin]

Originally posted by blackrose
fender suck. get an ibanez. but back to the question, get a strat because a tele is more for less intense crap like blues and country and worse for actually playing music. of course, its not like a strat is all that much better (im severely anti-fender), so just pick what one is cheaper.

ever heard about: RATM, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Muse, Presidents of the USA, etc??
all those guys are using telecasters, and none of them is blues or country
and you talking about "actually playing music"??? which style would that be exactly??? michael jackson?!

[zepp_rules]

you ever hear of dave gilmour, i have never hear anything remotely country from him


ever hear of jeff beck, enough said

[blackrose]

ever heard about: RATM, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Muse, Presidents of the USA, etc??
all those guys are using telecasters, and none of them is blues or country
and you talking about "actually playing music"??? which style would that be exactly??? michael jackson?! [/B][/QUOTE]

First off, i dont think that any off those people mentioned are that great of musicians. Secondly, micheal jackson sucks. he has no talent for music whatsoever. anyways, i consider low-core rock as bad as blues or country.

[blackrose]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
...whose favourite guitar is a Telecaster?

Most of the electric guitar tracks on Led Zeppelin's albums were not recorded with his Les Paul!

I have no respect for led zeppelin as far as music goes.

[blackrose]

Originally posted by zepp_rules
you ever hear of dave gilmour, i have never hear anything remotely country from him


ever hear of jeff beck, enough said

not enough said. ive never heard of either. you need to start listening to some good music.

[Raskolnikov]

Well, that was one "ignernt" stretch of posts there...

Here's the facts:

If you actually think that one genre of music is "better" than another you have a mental defect. You prefere one genre over others.
Have no illusions; Country music breads a mess of badass lead guitarists. If you look outside of commercial country you actually find a lot of really good songwriting too.
Ibanez guitars are for all intensive purposes Fenders. Different companies, different styles, same idea.
Gear doesn't make the player. Sure, it helps to have a nice playing guitar with good tone, but tone and feel are individual things. My Tele gets everything from classic Tele to Strat to Les Paul tones thanks to it's neck pickup and five way selector. It has a fairly massive body and if you put your ear up to unplugged it actually has an incredible sound. Not many Ibanez owners can say that.


Finally, I might add that while Pantera was just getting started as a GLAM band, Larry LaLonde, who will admit to liking Teles was creating some serious METAL as a member of Possessed.

[jake sommers]

Don't be dissing micheal jackson!!!

[Zeppelin]

man you probably dont like music at all. that's it, because if you would like any possible style in the world you would appreciate fender...
any kind of musing inlvolving electric guitars can use a fender. no matter if it is metall or blues or country or 80's new wave or anything else
what is in your opinion good music? if you'll say shredding then you got malmsteen who is playing the fender stratocaster as far as i know, so think a little before saying fender sucks

[blackrose]

First of all, Raskolnikov, i said nothing at all about any diff types of music, just individual musicians and bands. i listen to a lot of stuff and i dont think that any particular type is "better" than another with a few exceptions (jackson still sucks and i still hate country and hip hop). And as much as i hate to admit it, you are right about the guitarists and songwriting that comes out of mainline country. However, that doesnt mean that mainline country, which is what i was talking about, is any good whatsoever. Anyways, ive never heard of pantera and i dont like posessed anyways. they are right in that annoying middle where they arent hard core enough but they arent melodic enough. And Zeppelin, no, i dont like shredding any more than i like any other type of music and even if i did im putting down the tele, not the strat. of course they are both fenders. And jake, if you like jackson fact is you have serious problems...jackson may have talent but he misuses it and his overall music quality is lacking. so ill put down his music as much as i feel like it.

[blackrose]

since im such a nice guy ill recomend an non-fender non-ibanez guitar to show that im not against absolutely everything. It is-
Gibson SG supreme(!!!). Check it out at http://www.guitartrader.com/Guitar1v1/catalog/bigimage.icl?passitemid=18937&orderidentifier=ID9993009314906F3E2525793740&srcdoc=itempg%2Eicl%3Forderidentifier%3DID9993009314906F3E2525793740%26secid%3D1021%26eflag%3D0%26numitems%3D8%26curitempos%3D8%26dirpage%3Ddir3%26itmid%3D18937%26subsecid%3D1089%26catid%3D1120.
I would put a picture of it in here but im not that nice of a guy.

[Raskolnikov]

Ok, you can put any pickups you want into any guitar. That means you can put humbuckers with some serious output into a Tele, even modify it to have a vibrato bridge. I suggest you take a look at Todd Huth's Telecaster... I have never seen more mods done to one guitar. So what everything comes down to is "how does the neck play," and "do I like the way this guitar sounds?" If you have any vision at all you can play any style of music on any guitar. Period.

The only resons NOT to pick a "classic" Fender is that it doesn't have enough frets, you want a shorter scale, or a set neck/ neck through guitar.

Or you'de rather have something that looks different.

[blackrose]

you know a link to where i can see Todd Huth's tele? And anyways the main reason i dont like fenders is that when they get expensive they always cost just a bit more than they should just for the name and they all look the same. All teles look basically the same, all strats look the same, and so forth. and yes, i would rather have something that looks different.

[Raskolnikov]

It seems that Todd Huth and his bastard Tele are two very difficult individuals to photograph. Here's the best I could do:

http://www.lesclaypool.com/gallery/photo/images/98_blakesberg.jpg

http://www.lesclaypool.com/gallery/photo/images/88_blakesberg.jpg

[blackrose]

good photos. and anyways, how do you put photos into posts? ive tried and tried and i just cant figure it out.

[Raskolnikov]

vB code: Click this (http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/index.php?action=bbcode), it'll tell you how in there.

[Hootayah]

...but only post pics if you absolutely must. Us modem users with old computers can't handle waiting 10 minutes for the page to load.