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Robert Herndon said:
LOL!!!! TBTH, @Ramo and I do enjoy spouting our anti Telecaster dribble from time to time, and it gets @chilipeppermaniac up and rushing to their defense, posting videos, etc...So, I suppose it's a kind of therapy???

No Telecasters were harmed in the making of this message.
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LOL And this kind of talk from a guy who not only played one of these, but lived to tell about it and even to show Throwback pics with it, and if I am not mistaken, totally redid and restored it.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
LOL And this kind of talk from a guy who not only played one of these, but lived to tell about it and even to show Throwback pics with it, and if I am not mistaken, totally redid and restored it.

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I was always picked on and made fun of over that Silvertone. I had only 18 frets, so some solos had to be transposed into a different register. The necks on the Silvertone/Danelectros of that era were non adjustable, so action and intonation was a compromise.

I made up for it by being louder and more aggressive than anyone else. My Duncan Quarter Pounder had been overwound to almost 20k.

My main rig was a Traynor YBA-2 bass head with an Ampeg 8x10 SVT-810-E bass cabinet.

I owned only two pedals - A DOD FX-50 Overdrive and a DOD FX-90 Delay.

From 1979 until 1984, the Silvertone was my main guitar. It sucked, TBTH, but I was playing full-time in a bar band earning $125.00/week and I didn't make enough to get a better guitar.

We rotated between playing at Charlie's in Porterville, Hoot N Holler in Terra Bella, Redbanks Saloon in Redbanks, (Now Smokey's Dead Rat Saloon) The Loading Chute in Woodlake and Crazy Delbert's in Visalia, California.

I restored it as a gesture to repay my Mom for giving it to me.

I spent years not being allowed to play or listen to anything but Country and twangy-ass Telecasters/Broadcasters. I played it because it was my only income source and metal wasn't really accepted in a farm town.

The way I dressed - like a rocker - got me constantly beat up.

I had to hide a cassette player in the hay loft and listen to hard rock when I could get away with it.

I'd sneak out to concerts, telling folks it was a church field trip.

I think those early experiences are why I dislike the country nusic genre and their affinity for the Telecaster.

Yes, I have I have played them. I've played many rare ones down at Buck Owen's studio. They are the most uncomfortable guitars I have ever played. Its like a 24" x 24 slab of Douglas fir with pickups

The super bright, thin, jangly response has zero balls. When I play them, I feel like I'm playing a ukulele through an AM car radio speaker.

One dimensional and lifeless.

When I've played them for hire, because somebody wanted that tone on a recording for hired, I didn't keep it strapped on any longer than I had too.

However, In the country music genre, they are an integral part of that music's DNA...like a Telecaster and a Twin Reverb are what most famous country songs are based on.

God bless them.

For me, I am most confident when I'm playing my Les Paul through a cranked Marshall. That's my personal sonic DNA recepie.
 
That Country scene sure must have been a different kind of life out there in the Wild West. Nowadays, I would think the Man Bun musicians would be the ones getting beat up. Likely though, they somehow can thwart ill treatment with good lawyers from mommy and daddy's trust funds.


Sorry you experienced tarnished memories of any kind from any style music you played, recorded, performed, etc. To me, I have been fortunate to take refuge in a wide variety of styles. None brought me ill treatment, ill effects, and much less a beat down.

Needless to say, I sure loved my first guitar. But, I did not wind up buying it until right around 1982/83. Craziest part was I had a gem, and yet my skills never lived up to the quality of that beat up but still solid and awesome rock machine. '79 LP Std.

 
chilipeppermaniac said:
LOL And this kind of talk from a guy who not only played one of these, but lived to tell about it and even to show Throwback pics with it, and if I am not mistaken, totally redid and restored it.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
That Country scene sure must have been a different kind of life out there in the Wild West. Nowadays, I would think the Man Bun musicians would be the ones getting beat up. Likely though, they somehow can thwart ill treatment with good lawyers from mommy and daddy's trust funds.


Sorry you experienced tarnished memories of any kind from any style music you played, recorded, performed, etc. To me, I have been fortunate to take refuge in a wide variety of styles. None brought me ill treatment, ill effects, and much less a beat down.

Needless to say, I sure loved my first guitar. But, I did not wind up buying it until right around 1982/83. Craziest part was I had a gem, and yet my skills never lived up to the quality of that beat up but still solid and awesome rock machine. '79 LP Std.

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All is good, kind, Sir...

The town I grew up in was very backwards. I was just a kid who wanted to play rock n roll.
 
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