Who was the first player to influence you on the Telecaster

[eyerish]

Buck Owens on Hee Haw

[stinkey]

Albert Lee. My number one guitar hero.

[theHUSTLER]

JIMMY PAGE!

[Stickman393]

Steve Howe (video should start at 1:44):



Andy Summers:

[Bill Hullett]

TUXEDO....
Ricky's mini tele is an Electric Mandolin made by Joe Glaser here in Nashville ......Bruce Bouton on Dobro (wearing his cowboy hat backwards I might add) He's a good friend so I hope I can safely point that out !!!!!

My First influence on Tele (Esquire actually) Was JEFF BECK! circa 1966

Bill Hullett

[tlcstr]

luther perkins! great player..

[Supernova87]

Definitely Joe Strummer and Wilko Johnson, as well as Graham Coxon to a degree. I just saw the Telecaster as a no-nonsense machine gun-like thing, with a stinging sound. Yet it still had a nice ringiness to it, ala early Who, Beatles and The Jam. I can easily emulate a sound not unlike the latter three bands with a tasteful amount of Vox-esque crunch using my CV Telecaster.

By the way, her's Wilko Johnson shwing what a Telecaster was made for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eVyofFm0Rw

[twangquest]

I think it was the sound for me first,.....TWANG of course and then the simplicity and watching the rockers be in awe at the non gizmo'd guitar making all those sound and effects by a guy with a two single coil pickup plain looking guitar. After learning more about different guitars I played one and for some reason never got one till a few years ago. Now I have two, just got a "beater Squier Affinity" to knock around on and My Number 1, Baja Tele( it's a dream!) And that neck is to kill for!!!!
Sounds and influences: Waylon, Arlen, Don Rich, Roy, Buck, Luther, Danny, Brent, Albert Lee, Burton, too many others to remember.

[twangquest]

Originally Posted by twangquest

I think it was the sound for me first,.....TWANG of course and then the simplicity and watching the rockers be in awe at the non gizmo'd guitar making all those sound and effects by a guy with a two single coil pickup plain looking guitar. After learning more about different guitars I played one and for some reason never got one till a few years ago. Now I have two, just got a "beater Squier Affinity" to knock around on and My Number 1, Baja Tele( it's a dream!) And that neck is to kill for!!!!
Sounds and influences: Waylon, Arlen, Don Rich, Roy, Buck, Luther, Danny, Brent, Albert Lee, Burton, too many others to remember.

And the fact that you really have to play the thing and coax the sounds out of it.

[thinline andy]

Watching old footage of The Flying Burrito Brothers made me want a tele.


But seeing Jimmy Page playing one showed they can do rock and blues too, not just country.


And that thought was really cemented when I found that Neil Young played a Broadcaster on "Tonight's The Night", one of my favourite albums.

[Telemarkman]

Originally Posted by thinline andy

Watching old footage of The Flying Burrito Brothers made me want a tele.

This clip shows them with the two most iconic Telecaster models IMO - an early 50's Butterscotch "Blackguard" and an early 60's Blond "Whiteguard".

[thepoet]

Keith, Bruce and Joe Strummer. Not in any particular order but

Keith made me want to play guitar, so I did. Bruce taught me how to wear it and use it as a tool . Joe wore it and used it the same way as Bruce.

Roy Buchanan, james Burton, Jimmy Page need I say any more.

Plus it's the coolest looking two pieces of wood on the planet

[flag72]

ditto on Buck Owens on Hee Haw that red white and blue was awsome :) ...lol
Daniel

[octatonic]

Albert Lee or perhaps Danny Gatton.

[James from Paso]

Well, there was not one person in particular to influence me to buy my Tele. The following players have me picking up my Tele more and more. This is in no particular order.

Frank Black & Lyle Workman- Frank Black and the Catholics

Jerry "Hot Rod" DeMink- Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs. I saw Billy and the Pigs live and Jerry is awesome live.

Peter Wood-Dramarama. The intro to Anything Anything...... well?

Greg Dulli- Afghan Whigs. Greg plays a Rosewood Tele, fricken cool!

Prince- Prince's performance at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction of George Harrison is in my opinion.... awesome!

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

[mouchoir]

Originally Posted by bipedal

I was aware of plenty of Tele players, but the first guitarist whose music I really loved/respected who played a Telecaster:

Charles Thompson / Black Francis / Frank Black

I locked into the Pixies hard after 'Doolittle' came out, and quickly gobbled up everything I could find. Darned if I didn't discover that Frank was (and still is, IIRC) primarily a Tele player.

+1 on Frank Black.

Saw The Pixies last year in London on the Doolittle anniversary tour and he is still playing a Tele

[interloper]

Johnny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien from Radiohead. They were coaxing some ridiculous stuff out of their Teles. Radiohead was my favourite band for a while there but now I rarely if ever listen to them. Their greatest contribution to me as a musician is not in their influencing my style of playing per se but in pushing me towards buying a Telecaster. I had no idea how versatile and awesome these guitars were at the time but in my ignorance I bought what is to this day my one and only axe.

A decision made so hastily could have turned out pretty horrible. Luckily for me it didn't. I absolutely love my Telecaster!

[Robson Ortlibas]

the first was Richie Kotzen

[Slimster22]

My brother, Kris. I watched him play and new I always wanted to do that. He had a 74 tele that sat in a closet for a long time, until 1989 when I asked him if he'd sell it to me. He told me, if I got it fixed and gave him $150 it'd be mine. Still the best deal I've ever gotten and I'd never part with it. Unless, of course it was back to him. I'm sure it was his way of giving me a gift, but making me work a little for it. {:-)

[Michaell]

a young guy I saw play one at a party when I was a teen ....was awed by his vibrato...........then a few weeks later another young guy with an natual wood tele.......watched him change strings then wail.........I guess I was as a college older teen to see and here two teles up front and personal