Exploring Andy Summers' Musical Legacy | 100 Guitarists Podcast

[@HIWATTSteve]

Regarding his Telecaster. His student either had the wiring done or did it himself. It is unknown. It is not as elaborate as suggested over the years. More unique than anything else. Andy got it that way. Regarding the "clone Tele." Dennis Galuszka was intended to be the master builder for the entire 250 that were made. Fender executives were hot to get the guitar out while The Police had their 2-year reunion tour. The batch was then split up between all of the Custom Shop builders with Dennis being "manager" over it. It was not a great time at Fender. Dennis in frustration and being PO'd about this build and other things, got his helicopter license as he was at his wits end. Thankfully Fender would go on to shake things up and Dennis stayed. But if you were to look at any pictures of the Tele's and compare them, the relic process is very different between the artists. VS Clapton's Blackie for example that were cloned exactly to the original. Each builder had the liberty to relic the Summer's Tele to their liking. You can see this if you compare a Todd Krause to a John Cruz to a Stephen Stern, etc. All are different. When Andy got the Tele it had its original tuners and its original chrome compensated bridge. Around the time when The Police formed Andy would go on to change the saddle setup on the compensated bridge from 3 to 6. He also installed the Schaller tuners and added an additional string tree. The biggest change he did was to the Tele's infamous bridge. Solid brass and saddles. He made this change in late January early February of 1979. It's first gig with the brass bridge was The Police performance at Hatfield Polytechnic. 21.2.79. This performance is on YT. Also, before the recording of Reggatta de Blanc. IMHO this changed and softened The Police sound and made songs like "Bring on the Night" what it is. It allowed Andy to lay his hand flat against the guitar and by removing the lip of a compensated bridge allowed him to play finger style more easily. The cloned Dakota Strats has boosters installed in them as did Andy's original 61. Now there is a switch on the back where Andy can use a guitar pick to adjust it. On his original Tele Andy has removed the phase switch and had the booster switch moved further back on the switch plate bracket. He last used the Tele in public in the late 90's. The Tele now sadly sits collecting dust at Andy's studio in Venice CA. However, Andy still uses and loves the 2 Dakota clone Strats and used both for his recent tour and with his Police cover band "Call The Police. It is also why the clone Tele did not get used as much as Fender had hoped during the reunion tour. Andy loved the cloned Strats more and the Tele got regulated to a few tunes. There are several great videos of Andy with Kevin Coyne with the Tele, pre-Police. You can see how it "was."

[@AndyBanana63]

Love the podcast, great you started with on of my favourites 😀 I think I’ve heard Sting say he played the solo on “Bring on the Night’ , would explain the way Andy played it live. I would argue his influence also extends to post punk bands like Wire and Television and also The Smiths where the bass is a lot more than bottom end and the guitar floats over it.

[@1loveMusic2003]

The filter side is great for a cocked wah sound in a second

[@OilCanHarry2U]

Andy Partridge from XTC.

[@brianwaitzman]

I believe the Walking On the Moon chord is Dm11🎶 Great show fellas!

[@deanfarley389]

Terje Rypdal of Norway.

[@timnotbrianmay]

I'll just be waiting for Brian May! 😺😺😺😸!!!!!!!!!!!

[@damianrf6309]

I hope Peter Buck is on your list!

[@NickMillevoi-PG]

I hope so too!

[@ultimatebasses]

Canada's Frank Marino, Ian Thornley and Rik Emmett.

[@AllenGarberGuitarFun]

“Murder By Numbers” has to be included in the list!

[@sicherheit]

as always, learn to play the Mother guitar solo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqDaaoBoqbimpassi=rpogq4_8GUSkMcsV

[@charliek9311]

Steve Stevens

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Dann Huff

[@joesatchton212]

I normally hate these kinds of things. But your disclaimers make things better as you are not treating this as some kind of brainless "best" list - how can you ever have a "best" in subjective things like music? Look forward to seeing (or not seeing) my own guitarists that should be known. But if Satriani and Lifeson [among a few others] don't appear, I am not going to be a happy puppy.