Titans of the Tele: 22 mythic masters. (noted guitarists who played Fender Telecasters)(includes related articles)(Cover Story)Players often assert that guitars don't make music, people do. True enough, but some guitars...Levy, Adam
when talking to guitar mags about his main instrument, a 1953 Fender Telecaster called “Micawber” (#3 on this listicle, btw), the technical details of the hardware are beyond him, but he knows what sounds good. “I’ve got my favorite axes that I know quite a bit about but when th...
Elyra is a polyphonic and multitimbral synthesizer that can be hooked up to a strap and played like a guitar. The instrument's interface is made up of two "strumming zones", a fretboard made up of a 4x12 of touch-sensitive pads, two assignable sliders and an OLED screen alongside a ...
The Gibson SG 1970 “is the one I’ve always played, before the band even started,” Angus told Guitar Player.“It was the first brand-name guitar I had gotten for myself, as well. Before that, it was hand-me-downs – a beat-up acoustic. I don’t know the SG’s year. Some p...
a change of studio mindset, “He’d have me play the same part four hours straight and at about the time I was going to kill him and turn myself into the cops – he’d turn round to me the next day and say that he liked it better when I played it the first time round.” ...
a Fender Telecasters and a Gibson Firebird. For acoustic guitars, Petty has had a signature C.F. Martin HD-40, and has written virtually all of his songs on a Gibson Dove Acoustic saved from his 1987 house fire. He currently uses a Gibson J-200 in a natural finish and a late ’70s...
Anything I played with when I was a kid just getting into music. I had a Digitech multi-effects pedal I bought when I was 14 that I thought was the best thing ever but really sounded terrible — I used it for all of my 4-track home recordings. The best piece of equipment I’ve ...
It makes the iconic Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix played and the workhorse Telecasters so often seen in the arms of Bruce Springsteen. The names of Les Paul and Leo Fender grace many of the most famous electric guitars. Designed in the 1940s and '50s, their instruments helped create the musical...
So that’s something that has led me to playing this [Noventa] Jazzmaster with P-90s, and I’ve got a Custom Telecaster that we’re working on at the moment with a humbucker at the bridge and a soapbar in the neck.” On that rainy day in North Bristol, Yola was frank about how ...
(重新定义) the sound of American music, but also immediately became an astonishing piece of design. Many musicians found Fender's first model, the Telecaster, clumsy, so he simply improved the instrument, making its shape fit a player's body. For Fender, form followed function as naturally ...