Αυτός την strat την είχε για ξεκαρφωμα...στα γεράματα γκεΥεψε ? και ΤΟΛΜΗΣΕ να παίξει την μισή reunion συναυλία με strat... ειδάλλως ...
Andy Summers=Τelecaster μη τρελλαθουμε κι όλας..
OK εγινε γνωστος με tele αλλα ...
Δεν ηταν tele η tele του.
Eπαιζε απο τη αρχη και με τη strat και ηταν η αγαπημενη του κιθαρα και ηχογραφησε και με αυτην πολυ.
Τη χρησιμοποιησε περισσοτερο στο “Ghost in the Machine” 1981 και στο “Synchronicity” 1983
“I’m not really a purist –
the standard Telecaster thing is not really my thing,” he explains. “A lot of guys who play Telecasters, their sound is very bright and twangy, which just isn’t really for me. So people associate me with it, but I don’t have the cowboy hat to go with it!
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My Telecaster was more of a hybrid, because somebody had replaced the neck pickup and put a
Gibson humbucker in there, but had also messed around with adding a drive switch into it, powered by a nine-volt battery – this was a period when people took their guitars and did all that sort of stuff to them! That guitar just had an incredible tone, and then it had what was effectively an in-built fuzzbox, which you could then switch on for solos.
It had something that was almost indefinable – what makes a guitar great? We could be here all day trying to analyse and quantify it, but that one had something magical – that’s why I kept going with it for so long!
The Telecaster is a wonderful instrument, but in the history of the marvellous creations of Leo Fender… it was his first attempt! Of course, it was an amazing breakthrough, but the Stratocaster was the elegant, refined version of that – and it really is the greatest solidbody electric guitar ever made. There have been a million different variations on it of course, but really Leo got it right in 1954.”
Andy Summers
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“If you went on stage or if you had to choose one guitar, one pedal, and one amp, what would you pick?”
That is pretty limiting.
I would probably play a Strat, which seems to be my guitar of choice. I like to use the whammy bar; I find it to be the guitar that covers all the ground one way or the other. Probably some sort of reverb, I suppose.