Folks! If I'm talking a little too fast for you, you can reduce the playback speed to your liking! thanks for the feedback! I'll try to speak a little slower moving forward.

Since I was 12 years old I’ve owned and played les Paul’s, strats, SG, Ibanez, Washburn. Many guitars. I never wanted a telecaster because I viewed it as a country guitar only. Some years ago I started to desire a telecaster sound. In 2019 at 45 years old I finally got my first telecaster. It fit like a glove and plays amazing! I could kick myself for ignoring this guitar for so long. Now with an arsenal of great guitars. I play only one and still no country. The twang from that big single coil with a bunch of gain cuts right through. Great guitar!

Iam 70 still playing my 66 Telecaster

Great video man! Thanks for spending the time!

The thing is that you can play any guitar in the world and they will never sound like a Telecaster but a Telecaster can sound like all of them

Wonderful video bro. I'm a music producer (drummer) and that knowledge is golden. Thanks for putting it together!

Gretsch DID NOT file a lawsuit against Fender. They sent a cease and desist letter. A C&D is NOT a lawsuit. Leo Fender and Fred Gretsch were friends, and it was a "gentleman's agreement" that Fender would stop using the name:: "Broadcaster". I wish people would do their research and stop perpetuating this misconception.

Dude, these are excellent! Do more!

My very first Tele was a 50’s model. I can’t recall the year, but it was from the 50’s when I purchased it brand new. Sorry, don’t remember year or cost. But it was beautiful. Blonde with maple neck and maple fret board. If only I still had it. Before I heard people calling the chrome bridge cover an ash tray, that’s exactly what I used it for. 😊

Tack för en bra informativ video! Överväger att slå till på en precis sådan.

It has been said that Leo "borrowed" the headstock design from Paul Bigsby. The design was originally sketched out by guitar legend Merle Travis, and Bigsby built it. When changing strings, Merle liked to lay the guitar on his lap. Having all the pegs on one side made it easier to tune. I heard this story from Thom Bresh (Merle's son).

Nice addition to the online history of the original mass-produced electric guitar. Thanks. PS the pace of speech was just fine for me. I read fast and listen fast, too.

The B-bender is older than 1996. Fender did make the "Nashville B-Bender" then, but the B-Bender goes back to the 70's I believe. Jimmy Page famously plays one on "All of My Love".

I'm 52. I have played for years. Just bought a Tele. Oh my my it's good!

Damn good and extremely informative video! Thank you 💛

It seems crazy to me now but I've played for over 40 years and only just now got a Tele (a very cheap Squier Bullet, made in Indonesia, but remarkable quality for its price - lovely tobacco sunburst, traditional pickup configuration, a superb neck and great quality hardware that's as good as the metalwork on my 88 USA Strat). While I love the Strat, this thing is different; it rings more in a bell-like way and the bridge pickup is a beast, capable of sweetness and snarl you just can't get from a Strat's pickup. I guess it's down to the metal mount, the wider coil and the more extreme angle, but it's a totally different sound and in a lot of ways more usable. Hard to believe that the basic design of the guitar is so unchanged from its origin all those years ago but still completely simple and perfect and versatile. Like some other commenters I'd always kinda written it off as a C'n'W guitar only, but I guess Prince, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Joe Strummer and countless others all knew better. I do now too. Long live the Tele!

great job man! thanks for the speedrun ;)

Yes all of his speech was the absolute truth. I started playing a fender Telecaster in 1972. And found that it was good for reproducing some 85% of what guitar sounds were on the airwaves.

Thanks. I knew some of these facts but learnt a lot. Did you (or I) miss the Boxer Tele (that's the "2021" name) also known as the Contemporary Telecaster made in mid 80s and the American Standard circa 1988 ?

I like my American Pro original Telecaster. It’s the first Fender I’ve owned and I just love it. I like the three brass saddles the bone nut and two single coil V-Mod pickups they really add that classic Tele tone and sound. It has become my main guitar and I have never been interested in Fenders due to the hum of the pickups but you can’t get that Tele sound anywhere else so I looked over the hum, got a noise suppressor and Bobs your uncle. End of story!!!!

Leo got it right from the start. I own 3 Telecasters, a Harley Benton, a Jim Root Mexi Model and a 75th Anniversary Commemorative Tele. I love all of them. And I don't play country 🙃

Good breakdown. Thanks

Interesting Fun Fact: "the Little Bastard" ( Cabronita) was the nickname actor James Dean had given his silver sports race car. While it wasn't technically seen in any movies, actor James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder could be the most iconic, and cursed car Hollywood has ever seen...Dean had raced in several races around California. He was driving near Cholame, California, in the Porche 550 when he was struck by a truck driver "who didn't see him" and passed away in September 1955. He was only 24 years old. Maybe Fender should have a James Dean Cabronita 550 model ?

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊

You can actually blend on those early. A match stick in between the 2nd and 3rd pos will give a blend

Telecaster's Rule!

My tele has a Gibson Humbucker in the neck.... perfect guitar

Awesome!

🔥 Good to know!

I don't think Gretsch actually filed suit. I'm pretty sure it was just a friendly cease and desist.

I think Gretsch is still family owned. Fender is in charge of manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

Fender got it right with Telecasters no other guitar sounds like a Tele even though Les Paul's try

Fender didn’t purchase Gretsch. They just produce them under a licensing and marketing agreement.

You seriously got all of your information from a narrative book almost word for word. Site (GUITAR FAMILY TREES the history of the wolds most iconic guitars. By Terry Burrows Foreword by Zakk Wilde) I believe they call this lyble.

You’re flashing through the pictures too fast and can’t get a good look at anything

I still love em, especially blondes.

If I don't have and don't own a Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, I'm gonna be angry like the Hulk. You don't like me when I'm angry!!!!

Ford=Gibson and Chevy=Fender

Telecasters are the daddies, but still strats are better

Gretsch NEVER sued Fender. This is an old tale. Simple research in one Google search will come up with the facts. Also, there's this article at reverb that says. Gretsch, "politely suggested that Fender change the guitar’s name, and Fender gladly complied."

Tweed amp and a Tele Like peanut butter and jelly

It should be “Cabroncita” to say it correctly.

The telecaster is the best for all rhythms players.

Nocaster all the way big udge neck !!

Leo Fender sold the company in 1965 to CBS. He was not there in 1967.

Cab ro nita🎉 easy

Is your talk tempo song fast because you want people to tune out??!!!!! I had to

You talk about telecasters and dont mention Buck Owens

argh! damn fast slideshow 😠

Talked too fast. What's the hurry?

Wow this has some serious inaccuracies and either bad reading, poor spelling and no pronunciations.

You're talking so fast, Sir...WTF !

To much faster the way to talk.....breathe friend....

You talked too fast, kind of ruining an otherwise solid presentation.

This would’ve been so much more interesting and easy to watch if the guy wasn’t trying to speed through it. my God slow down and just let us absorb the information you’re giving us it’s not a race