jcharmon824
Tele-Holic
I've been running monitors for the Big Bend Blues Bash in Pomeroy, OH on and off for years now. The last band on Friday night, The Band Feel, from St. Louis, was self-contained so I just sat back at monitor world and watched the music.
The guitarist, Tyler Armstrong, played a bunch of Gibsons through some sort of 4x12 Marshall and what looked like and old Vox AC30. The Marshall gave him some problems during sound check earlier in the day but the actual show appeared to go smoothly. The guitar tech would bring another guitar on stage, and the guitarist would do this smooth song-and-dance routine switching them out. I thought his tone was awesome, until the tech brought a beat up Telecaster on stage.
Since his amps were pointed upstage, I walked out of monitor world to stand (not quite) in direct fire of the amps that were cranked. I was floored by how good it sounded and just stood there while he played. It was stripped of it's finish and the pickguard appeared to be long gone where you could see the diagonal wire route. "That's pretty cool," I thought to myself. "Looks like my goldfoil partscaster."
The song ended, the tech brought up another Gibson, and I went back to monitor world. Half an hour later when the show ended for the night, I was chatting with one of the event organizers and mentioned how I liked the Tele the most. The tech (I didn't catch his name, but he was a sweetheart) overheard as he was packing up and handed it to me. He said it was in open E so I started to plunk around on Jonell Mosser's, "Good Thing," which is in E open with slide (check that song out on YouTube, it's pretty cool). The neck felt great, almost like the one on my beloved Brad Paisley, except the finish was worn off the back and not tru-oiled like mine. It was raw wood, which felt great. It appeared to have either 8s or 9s. I use 10s and 10-52s when I can find them. They were really slinky to me so I didn't find them appealing. But it was cool to hold this guy's guitar.
As I was plunking around on it and chatting with their tech, he casually mentioned, "By the way, that's a 1953."
(Video not from the festival but the same guitar)
The guitarist, Tyler Armstrong, played a bunch of Gibsons through some sort of 4x12 Marshall and what looked like and old Vox AC30. The Marshall gave him some problems during sound check earlier in the day but the actual show appeared to go smoothly. The guitar tech would bring another guitar on stage, and the guitarist would do this smooth song-and-dance routine switching them out. I thought his tone was awesome, until the tech brought a beat up Telecaster on stage.
Since his amps were pointed upstage, I walked out of monitor world to stand (not quite) in direct fire of the amps that were cranked. I was floored by how good it sounded and just stood there while he played. It was stripped of it's finish and the pickguard appeared to be long gone where you could see the diagonal wire route. "That's pretty cool," I thought to myself. "Looks like my goldfoil partscaster."
The song ended, the tech brought up another Gibson, and I went back to monitor world. Half an hour later when the show ended for the night, I was chatting with one of the event organizers and mentioned how I liked the Tele the most. The tech (I didn't catch his name, but he was a sweetheart) overheard as he was packing up and handed it to me. He said it was in open E so I started to plunk around on Jonell Mosser's, "Good Thing," which is in E open with slide (check that song out on YouTube, it's pretty cool). The neck felt great, almost like the one on my beloved Brad Paisley, except the finish was worn off the back and not tru-oiled like mine. It was raw wood, which felt great. It appeared to have either 8s or 9s. I use 10s and 10-52s when I can find them. They were really slinky to me so I didn't find them appealing. But it was cool to hold this guy's guitar.
As I was plunking around on it and chatting with their tech, he casually mentioned, "By the way, that's a 1953."
(Video not from the festival but the same guitar)
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Kewl beenz man!
