Telecaster: Sixty Years Ago This Month, a Musical Icon was Born

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  leavingwt

  NPR . . .

  The Telecaster: Still Wailing At 60

  It's a sound that changed guitar-making, guitar-playing and, ultimately, popular music.

  There had been efforts to design a solid-body electric guitar since the 1930s, but it wasn't until Leo Fender introduced the perfect blend of musical form and function that fundamental problems were resolved: A Telecaster could be mass-produced, was easy to repair and, unlike a traditional hollow-body electrified guitar, could be played loud without feedback.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDuee6blvj8

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOptDDU3rOo

  http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/02/28/134134763/the-telecaster-still-wailin-at-60
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  FlyingHighNow

  Lotta country musicians use the telecaster. I mean the real musicians, not the canned, programmed pop floof country that's being cranked out today.
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  james_woods

  and, unlike a traditional hollow-body electrified guitar, could be played loud without feedback.

  Trust me on this - they can be made to go into feedback.
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  glenster

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Telecaster_players

  http://members.tripod.com/blue_lena/guitar.html

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9msbuNTpHkM
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  avishai

  i love telecasters.
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  four candles

  We went to see Jerry Donahue recently....he was amazing...and a beautiful white Telecaster he was playing. I managed to get my Fotheringay album signed.
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  FlyingHighNow

  Here are the Beatles performing Let It Be in the studio. George plays a solo on his Rosewood Telecaster at 2:19.

  Look for Billy Preston playing organ. John is playing a Fender Strat.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-gyGiggAOI