And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"This is Danny Gatton’s 1953 Fender Telecaster. Danny installed the Joe Barden pickups and also had Willie Nelson and Roger Miller sign the top. The guitar was displayed by Heritage Auctions..."
Here's another classic and battered Tele, the late , great Clarence White's, also fitted with the first "B String Bender.
"...Country archivist and musician Marty Stuart has been the keeper of Clarence White’s famous Telecaster since the 1980s – he tells us all about how he came to own what he calls “The greatest Telecaster in the world…”
I never saw music as some kind of competitive sport.
There are just too many. "greats" to just pick one.
The real action in guitar current vintage guitar picking is down Nashville way, where total monsters like Bret Mason, Guthrie Trapp, Josh "Guitarzan" Smith, Tom "Uncle Larry " Bukovac and dozens of other magicians dazzle in bars all up & down Broadway when they're not making today's C&W stars sound great.
yes please
ReplyDeleteThat's one pretty Tele!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a "Partscaster" and almost too pretty to be a Fender.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, the best sounding guitars look like the never get put down.
Take a look at Telecaster Master Blaster Danny Gatton's battered 1953 Tele.
https://www.vintageguitar.com/22313/guitarlington-2016/gattons-tele/
"This is Danny Gatton’s 1953 Fender Telecaster. Danny installed the Joe Barden pickups and also had Willie Nelson and Roger Miller sign the top. The guitar was displayed by Heritage Auctions..."
Here's another classic and battered Tele, the late , great Clarence White's, also fitted with the first "B String Bender.
ReplyDelete"...Country archivist and musician Marty Stuart has been the keeper of Clarence White’s famous Telecaster since the 1980s – he tells us all about how he came to own what he calls “The greatest Telecaster in the world…”
https://guitar.com/features/artist-rigs/rare-guitars-clarence-whites-1950s-telecaster/
Lot of greats, but for Tele-master of the universe? I gotta go with James Burton!
ReplyDeleteI never saw music as some kind of competitive sport.
DeleteThere are just too many. "greats" to just pick one.
The real action in guitar current vintage guitar picking is down Nashville way, where total monsters like Bret Mason, Guthrie Trapp, Josh "Guitarzan" Smith, Tom "Uncle Larry " Bukovac and dozens of other magicians dazzle in bars all up & down Broadway when they're not making today's C&W stars sound great.