First worship service with a Tele...

First time today playing a real telecaster for worship. Had the great honor to play for an alter call and had some young people come forward. In honor, hears my North American trio of Canadian Acousticaster, USA ASAT bass and MIM telecaster.

excellent !

Livin' the dream!

Careful. It's habit forming.:lol:

Welcome!

Awesome!
COngrats!

Congrats!

Good for you!
Telecasters offer a nice tone for P & W.

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My first Tele-worship experience was just one week before yours.

And Doug is right.... it is habit forming!

My first time with a Tele was a disaster. I'm standing on stage with my new Tele plugged into my new Marshall tube amp thinking to myself "this is gonna sound great". Just as we start the set the power goes out. We paniced and just started sing accapella. after the first song my Pastor handed me a Fender plywood dreadnought without a strap. I played the rest of the set holding this seemingly heavy acoustic and I was drenched in sweat. When I sat back in the pews the power came back on.

My first time with a Tele was a disaster. I'm standing on stage with my new Tele plugged into my new Marshall tube amp thinking to myself "this is gonna sound great". Just as we start the set the power goes out. We paniced and just started sing accapella. after the first song my Pastor handed me a Fender plywood dreadnought without a strap. I played the rest of the set holding this seemingly heavy acoustic and I was drenched in sweat. When I sat back in the pews the power came back on.

That's awesome! LOL

My first experience with a Tele (a copy, though) - I was in a band in my late teens, early 20's. I had just bought a Cort Hollow Bodied electric.. beautiful guitar with vine inlays up and down the fret board. It was buzzing, so I took it back for them to fix - and they gave me a loner for the gig I had coming up. It was a tele style guitar that was made by Epiphone.

I loved the tone of that thing! I went back when I had money and bought another one, it wasn't the same guitar, though. When I tried it out at band practice, I couldn't get the volume on the guitar to more than about 7 without it feedbacking. It was terrible. I ended up giving it to a friend.

I've been playing worship on a Tele for years. Love it.

I've been playing worship on a Tele for years. Love it.

+1 There's nothing my Teles can't do.

My JB Tele is all I play in church. The other guys play: LP double cut, Hammer LP, LP classic, so you can see it's all humbucker and they all slather on the distortion. So I'm all over the Tele with Tremolo & Twin models (we use Line6). People are always complimenting my tone and one of the other guys has actually started to back off the gain.

Main worship electric, far right...Squire with a Warmoth neck NINE string E A Dd Gg Bb e pushing a Digitech RP350 into the mixing board. The one in the middle is the 74 Deluxe its so heavy it only makes the occasional appearance. The blonde is a 76' Electra with new guts but it's got the lowest action and the bridge pup out of an American... Good for Modern Christian Rock.
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