Tag: Telecaster

Blues, jazz, country, rockabilly – Danny Gatton mixed all these together, sometimes in the space of a single bar. This is the story of one of the greatest electric guitarists of all time, and a man who redefined what a Telecaster could do.

All three feature lightweight ash bodies.

The late Irish blues legend loved Telecasters more than perhaps any other guitar, and this mid-60s example was his number-one slide guitar across his glittering career.

The blues maestro owns a pair of blonde beauties that sport neck humbuckers and a lot of battle scars.

An animated visual treat to celebrate the UK launch of the Mirror Telecaster.

A flexible new hybrid that dovetails with the needs of modern guitarists, or a clever way to sell Telecasters to the buoyant acoustic market? Time to put Fender’s big NAMM 2019 launch under the microscope.

The Fender Telecaster was the first – and many still insist, is the definitive – mass-produced solidbody electric guitar. Here, the people who introduced it to the world and helped turn it into an enduring musical icon tell the remarkable story of its creation…

Fender is collaborating with Jimmy Page to recreate his famous 1959 Fender Telecaster, 50 years after Led Zeppelin formed in October 1968.

The new line-up also includes an artist signature SRV Stratocaster and new Malmsteen models.

This is no ordinary Tele – it was used as a 'model' on Fender's catalogues from 1959 right up to 1966.