Greg Leisz? What sort of Tele is this?

[Brent Hutto]

There's a song with a few cool, twangy licks called Gray in LA on Loudon Wainwright III's soundtrack album for the movie Knocked Up. Unfortunately, the real twangy stuff isn't in this live performance video but it shows the guitar player (who I think is Greg Leisz) and his instrument. Here's a link to a page of videos, you have to click on the track name to see it:

http://www.lwiii.com/downloads.php?section=video#

Check out his guitar on the video. Is it some sort of hollowbody Tele? The finish is so dark it's hard to see details but it doesn't look like any I'm familiar with...

 

[daphil]

Looks like a Trussart Steelcaster.

 

[clem trout]

Yep.

It's Greg Leisz. Trussart Steelcaster...through a Princeton 6G2 (transitional) amp (black face/white knobs)..

 

[Brent Hutto]

Thanks guys. Not surprised I didn't recognize the Steelcaster, I'd never heard of Trussart guitars. I like the nice chimey tone he gets on some of the harmonics.

I hope that's the same guitar he uses on the CD cut, there's a short guitar break at the mid-point of the song (not in the live version) with some super-twangy low notes run through a delay effect.

 

[nedray]

Those guitars are amazing--been gassing for one for a while now. Hearing Greg's tasty chops doesn't help.