Check THIS out !!! ( Vintage Tele contecnt )

[DANOCASTER]

I bought this recently but just today got it back from a refret / set-up and this thing is KILLER

It's a '74 I grabbed off Ebay. It was owned by Phil Spalding ( a british bassist who's played with a ton of people and was in the 80s Howe / Hackett band GTR ). It has the orig blonde finish underneath (in pretty nice shape) but was lightly oversprayed in black nitro ages ago and has been signed / doodled on by countless pub bands mostly. Holly Johnston (from Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and Paul Humphreys (from Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) both did their thing.. anyways. I was gonna "restore" it back to blonde but I cant bear to. In Person , it looks like Rock N Roll history incarnate

And it sounds CRAZY great - newly refretted w/ 6105s - it rings like a BELL !!

The orig guard ( routed for an 80s dimarzio humbucker ) , the original bridge ( which was nice ), the pickup (which I HATED- super thin and microphonic ) - and the orig 1 meg pots ( on a tele ? NO THANKS ) - were all sold back on Ebay and almost recovered every dollar I paid for the guitar

Now I can play "Rock The Casbah" in true Joe Strummer-style

And here it is w/ the AC-10 I just bought thru the Emporium ( BOY, that was a great move too !! )

 

[rastus]

Dano, that may be the coolest thing I have seen from you yet! Brilliant guitar! If there is more vibe than that, I don't wanna see it.

 

[brentrocks]

wow...that is sweet. lots of cool vibes going on there!!!

 

[Bonedance]

Very cool tele Dano and a very wise decision to leave the finish as is. Vibe galore! Oh yeah, the AC-10 is smokin' too! Congrats on two fine finds.

 

[sleis]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I slipped on to browse the forum while in a boring meeting at work and saw this. Cool thing to see in the middle of the most boring meeting ever. I am not much into guitars signed by people with a sharpie, but scratching through the black paint is a very awesome thing to see. It is a combination of seeing graffitti on a college bar wall from the past 30 years and a quick glance at the stuff on the walls at a Hard Rock. Awesome find.

 

[rastus]

Ya know, that finish actually does remind me of the bathroom stall at the Goldrush before it was bought and sanitized a couple years back-that or the bathroom wall and dressing room at the the Exit/Inn also before it was rehabbed.

 

[GP_Hawk]

WOW!

That has some history to it. I love it! Nice find.

 

[Soothsayer]

Tough call, a blond worn in 74 would be cool.

 

[noteethleroy]

That is awesome, and I'm not usually a fan of heavily worn guitars.

 

[doublee]

Now THAT is a relic I can understand,

 

[DANOCASTER]

Tough call, a blond worn in 74 would be cool.

yeah.. not a tough call if it would be your THIRD worn blonde though

 

[Trandy]

Now THAT is a relic I can understand,

Yessireee......

 

[Jahn]

A tele with an OMD mark on it. that's the coolness.

 

[Soothsayer]

yeah.. not a tough call if it would be your THIRD worn blonde though

That would make it easier...

In college I got to see OMD in concert, it was alot of fun. The crowd knew all the words and sang back to the band the whole show.

 

[Todd Lynch]

Freq-ing love it! Killin' vibe.

 

[walterw]

yeah.. not a tough call if it would be your THIRD worn blonde though

besides, you would probably still have a bunch of graffiti scratches, impressions, etc. if you did strip off the black, so it wouldn't even be that nice of a blonde anyway.

very cool!

 

[thewhit]

That's a much better look than the typical relic which to me looks phony.

 

[scanlory]

That has some serious cool mojo. :BEER