Thank you for your post it was very very inciteful. So if I buy a Tele with HB's equipped like my epip, does that pretty much defeat the purpose of buying a Tele? Also, what's the main diff between the "nashville" Tele with 3 single coils and whatever the standard Strat w/3 single coil pickups as well? Also :P, is the Nashville used by many country bands as opposed to blues/rock guitarists or how is that distributed as far as who uses what?