Wednesday, August 23, 2006



My most recent acquisition, a Fender Custom Shop '63 Relic Tele. You can hear the '60's rosewood tele's in action with Phelps Collins' stabbing contribution to James Brown's "Sex Machine," everything Steve Cropper played on at Stax, Robbie Robertson's lead playing off Dylan's '66 European tour bootlegs, and Jimmy Page's defining solo on "Stairway to Heaven." I found this one on consignment at Guitar Rez after having spent about 3 months playing every tele I could get my hands on. It has a midrange spank and bottom guttural bark that would send the faint hearted clamoring for their Eagles records.