The Fender Telecaster: A Short History in 4K

[@Scaredycat-dad]

Great video Keith! If you would’ve told me my 20s that my favorite guitar in my 60s was going to be a Telecaster I would’ve told you were crazy, but here we are.

[@charlesjoynes9497]

Too true. Bought my first Tele 2 years ago after playing for 39 years. Now I have 4 and counting.

[@vayabroder729]

It was my favorite guitar in my 20’s 40 something years ago and it still is!

[@mikewithers299]

Tele was never a go-to guitar for me in my 20's. Too twangy for my taste. 40 years later I got my first butterscotch and loved it.

[@vdubbub9746]

I have used to have 13 guitars. I now have 3. A Kiesel LP type, a really cool strat, and a Suhr Telecaster. The Suhr gets played 80% of the time. It just does everything.

[@orryfishburne5326]

I LOVE the Telecaster sooooo much! My current Tele is now a Partscaster i put together a while back, but it the best guitar i own.

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Thank you for a wonderful episode.

[@scottkidwell3601]

Thank you, Keith! Great short history. Love the Teles.

[@jimdeeds]

Even though I've watched and read everything out there about the tele, owned a dozen of them, played a hundred of them, I still love these videos. And more so from this channel. Always great quality. Thank you!

[@Ligtez]

4K is what my telecaster needs!!

[@daviswall3319]

I love my 2001 American Std swamp ash maple neck tele. Just a really solid works every time Fender electric.

[@StarQueenEstrella]

Been waiting for this one!

[@TobyWatkins]

Me too! 😁👍👍👍

[@AuntAlnico4]

It's been done before, many many times ! 😂 I'm waiting for the DEAN guitars and HAMER guitars history as it's a far less known story than the Fender and Gibson or Rickenbacker for example, they all have been done but the Dean guitars and Hamer guitars are the unsung heroes of the guitar world from the very beginning !

[@TheAdjacents-ABQ]

My Texas Tea Telecaster Ultra (I) is just great to play and listen to. It was first really high end purchase.

[@shanewalton8888]

Playing rockabilly gigs is how my father put himself through university. I vividly remember his two telecasters. Nothing seemed cooler at the time. When he died, I really appreciated the old gentlemen who came up and said he was the best player they had ever seen grace the Alberta music scene.

[@runabout76]

I'm one of the few who seem to prefer the top-load Teles. I prefer the feel. Great video as always. Teles forever!

[@LeStraTele]

I started loving the Tele in the early 80's when 15 year old me started listening to the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck (Esquire, close enough). Here I am, 40 years later, still a Tele fan.

[@wirthwhilemedia]

I love your history videos. Great job, as always!

[@BenFreund]

Hey it's Daniel! Good call on having a modern master of that instrument play :-)

[@janjosephmelenhorst1166]

Awesome history of… story again, Keith!!!!

[@NoNameNo.5]

I like that Keith seems to drop these on the weekend, I can ease into the guitars cocktails and gummies wit 5WW! Also, damn right Leo nailed it!

[@terryeaster1]

Great video. In my country band in the 90's I owned and played a black 78 tele custom. It was a great guitar.

[@artrogers3985]

Thank you Keith. I’m having a really bad day and I needed this ❤🎸

[@TobyWatkins]

WHOA! Look what’s just come out! Not watched it; I’ve got a gig and then when I’m winding down back home I’m going to pour a small whisky and put it on…… looking forward to this! 👍👍👍👍

[@estenray5385]

Thanks for this great video on Telecaster’s Keith! Pretty comprehensive for being short!

[@bruiserbrawler8054]

I just bought a second Tele. Historically, since 1985 or so I've been a Strat guy but I do like Telecasters.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

Snorlax plush on the Amp is a good sign of a good video :D My first electirc guitar was a cheapo harley benton Telecaster, which the pickups died around in 2016 and I gave the guitar to another student from the university. Later on I bought a cheap Frankenstein Tele, not a Fender, but it included Telecaster Body and Pickups but a Strat Mapleneck. The neck felt like a half baseball bat. Plays like a dream and got some issues how it was build together but I like it. Also the telecaster to me is the perfect allrounder for any style you wanna play. It's easy to pickup and play also the controls quite simple. Also in a mix of making records the tele is always good hearable :D So I don't wanna miss the Telecaster in the History of electric guitars :)

[@CrockettsCabin]

I really need to get a Telecaster again.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

I love my American Professional 2 Tele in the Miami blue

[@victorbeebe8372]

Mahalo Keith! Great video!

[@alasdairmunro1953]

5ww4k! Great update of the video Keith.

[@guiom77]

SUPER interresting vidéo ‼️ MANY MANY THANKS

[@castleanthrax1833]

I'm not a fan of country music at all, yet I love the music like in the intro... Albert Lee-type guitar music is awesome.

[@jurbroek8117]

Just today I was watching your Gibson history video, and wondering if you've done a telecaster one yet. What a coincidence.

[@AdamFague]

Don’t forget - Festus McKraken of the All Night Pounders played one

[@docdaytona108]

(Fozzie Bear voice) How about…“Fender Custom Shop Telecasters: a 4K Present.” Because they ARE ‘4K’ and it’s near Christmas?? WAKKA, WAKKA, WAAAKKAAA!

[@StarQueenEstrella]

14:08 small correction: Page’s is actually designed such that it had both top-loading and string-thru options. This is likely the way it left the factory, with a string-thru body and a top-loading bridge.

[@ILoveTeles]

I have one of these from 59. Top-loader hardware, but factory-drilled for through-body.

[@davidhamilton7780]

All the guitar I'll ever NEED WANT is perhaps another question

[@bradpittiful7288]

joe strummer played a 66 sunburst that he had a auto shop repaint in a gray primer then painted black over that

[@BTS4990]

Joe Strummers Tele sounds amazing on his albums Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

[@StephenGangi]

I have a MIM Standard Tele. It can do everything.

[@christopherjbutler]

No premiere? :) Love your work Keith, as always..

[@fivewattworld]

Late getting it out :(

[@chassisresearchkid]

At least Waylon got some recognition!

[@daemonspudguy]

I hope the overlayed audio on the calls to action at the beginning becomes a running gag on future videos. It would be funny.

[@mars6433]

Those old kids really knew what they were doing.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

Don't forget Keith Urban and his 40th anniversary sunburst tele named Clarence

[@kirkbolas4985]

This video brought to mind a question that I’ve had for a very long time…Why is the pickup closest to the bridge designated the rear pickup and the one closest to the neck designated the front pickup?

[@StarQueenEstrella]

16:50 according to Andy Summers the PAF in the neck position was added by someone else before the guitar got in his hands. I don’t recall if Andy found it that way in a pawn shop or if he knew the person who made that mod.

[@fivewattworld]

He bought it from one of his guitar students. See the top 20 Tele players video for the details.

[@jimilee459]

I hope you had a chance to go to Songbirds while it was open. I went a couple of times. They had one of the 2 original Rosewood Teles. Those things were ungodly heavy, I don't know how George was able to hold it for more than one song.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

for me the iconic tele players are joe strummer and bruce

[@StarQueenEstrella]

10:58 interestingly enough, Vince Gill has refused multiple offers from Fender for them to make a signature model for him. In Gill’s own words, Fender simply can’t make a better version of a Telecaster for him than the one he already has and loves.

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

Good shot, old boy.

[@guitarjeff55]

Nice job on vedeo. Keith My Waylon. Has flat radius neck. Big C large neck.

[@coneyislandguitars]

The usual story of why Fender went with rosewood fretboards is that Leo saw a country act on TV with a maple neck Tele where the finish had worn off and hated how it looked dirty. The F stamped tuners on CBS Fenders were made by Gotoh. The Thinline Tele was designed by Roger Rossmeisl of Rickenbacker fame. Also the much maligned 3 bolt neck with micro tilt as seen on many CBS Fenders was designed by Leo himself! So not really a CBS thing.

[@markkasick]

and Don Rich, probably Buck Owens too.

[@Gene_Cali]

It's Always 'T' time. 😁🎸🍵

[@Rudy-r8v]

335 please and or another type of guitar how about an acoustic episode maybe?

[@Threeflip]

For me, Tele means John 5 and Jim Root.

[@nedludd3641]

I've got a Fender Telecaster Professional II and I just can't get a sound out of it that I like. Stringsteen & 'Danish' Pete swear by them. I wish I could work out what they're doing that I ain't. I love the Strat & LP, but the Tele.....?

[@ToddHavel]

Sorry to hear that. Fwiw, try rolling the tone control to 7 or 3, keep it off 10. I will do the same with the volume, it becomes more dynamic when you do that. Good luck!

[@nedludd3641]

@@ToddHavel - I'll try that. Thanks :)

[@Thurston86]

🤘👽🎸

[@A.G.137]

Any “”shortlist” of great Telecaster players who helped give the guitar its historical status that doesn’t put Roy Buchanan somewhere near the top is a near unforgivable oversight.

[@fivewattworld]

Have you watched the video yet?

[@kevingates503]

If you like jangley twangly tele is the guitar for you

[@joshuagibson2520]

That's what pedals are for.

[@joshuagibson2520]

And pickups.

[@kevingates503]

@joshuagibson2520 no pedals are for when your guitar and amp can't get it done

[@michaelmeehan9083]

Louis Shelton....

[@romeou4965]

Tele HH 🤤

[@mrwhite6743]

Two twangin teles

[@BrazenNL]

Robben Ford, Mike Stern. 😔

[@kevingates503]

Twang!!!

[@jvbluesville3426]

Get rid of the middle pickup or better yet get a strat

[@fivewattworld]

Hey that’s my current Tele, you configure your own, :).

[@donknotts5625]

I have 5 guitars I play the tele