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Many people buy their first Telecaster because of someone like Keith Richards, or Springsteen... maybe Prince. I got mine in 1999 because I saw Chrissie play one... it sounded killer... and looked bad-ass on her.
I bought my first telecaster in December I’ve always wanted one since I saw George Harrison playing the rosewood one on the roof top of the apple building
The bridge plate is shiny above the pickup and rough below it because Leo Fender was an extremely cost efficient man. Because those bridge plates had the cover, and it only reached the upper side of the pickup, leaving the plate exposed at the top. Leo instructed the people at the factory to only polish the top part, it was what could be seen. That saved a few dollars in the long run.
I have had mine for about 20 months now. Mine was perfect out of the box, literally number 22 of the run. No fret or neck issues. And it plays and sounds beautiful. Couldnt be happier with mine
He’s said he’s got a backlog of reviews to get out, so he might have a ton that just need editing and he’s not filming like a madman. (Or maybe he’s doing both.)
I literally spend all day watching your videos, found you your channel, you have sparked a interest in guitar in me beyond just playing them, thank you for all the hard work you do!
Chrissy is a kick a$$ writer and player....and her biography is a good read. Tough as nails, a strong work ethic, and never one to fall back on excuses, or look for a free ride. Trogly, I am surprised you weren't familiar with her....she's an Ohio native....from Akron. She even wrote a song about it "My City Was Gone".
Did you notice the end view of the fretboard? It's a slab board, accurate to a '65. Later Fenders used a thinner piece of wood which followed the curve of the fretboard. To collectors of vintage Fenders, this is important. Kudos to Fender for (A) doing a Chryssie model and (B) getting a detail like this right.
The bidge plate thing I remember somone saying is actually a Fender thing. Leo never polished the insides because he thought the ashtray cover would cover it anyway and people wont take it off. Then fender just did it as historic thing.
Chrissy the rock legend! I'm glad to see Fender has honored her with a signature model. Chrissy is a significant figure in Rock history blazing a path for future generations who pick up a Tele.
i took my kids to a bday bowling party today that had an anime theme, thanks to your recent anime sig model reviews i had something to talk about. thanks
If you eat and breathe music like I do, you would know the name Immediately and never forget it. Hell you could just say the name Chrissy. People like me know who that is. Legend, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Don't tell me you don't know who Keith Richards is but you only know of The Rolling Stones
It’s likely Fender just started using a formula of nitrocellulose lacquer with less plasticizers. It could be a heat differential treatment, either would need to be confirmed. Those are good sounding pickups. That’s what stood out the most to me.
It’s a really nice-looking guitar, and I always love the contrast of a dark fretboard and a lighter body. Sounds great, too! Chrissy is a genuine rock legend so it’s absolutely appropriate she gets a signature Tele. Good for her!
Oooooh, I'm such a sucker for Ice Blue Metallic! Swap that three way out for a four way with series/parallel wiring, and I'd never put that thing down.
Not a super huge fan of the understated look, but that thing sounds amazing! The distorted tones sounded more like Jimmy Page than the Jimmy Page tele. A little more compressed, but I could def hear some Led Zep 1 & 2 tones coming through! The low notes sounded so thick and heavy! Pretenders are not nearly as popular as they should be. First two records are great. Also learn how to play “Middle Of The Road” for some finger twisting string skipping, and try to nail the slight crescendos that happen in the riff. & the solo is money. Bonus points if you learn the harmonica solo on guitar like it did! Great video and keep up the great work!
She was also present at that disastrous Kent state anti-war demonstration and watched the 4 students go down. That's what motivated her to fly to London.
This model looks a whole lot closer to the one I thought they were going to build in Chrissy's honour. The finish on hers was a metallic green, but this otherwise takes it. It isn't just much about whether the person being recognised can play like Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughan. It is about name recognition, and people know her name and theirs. One of the mire ironic moments I have committed to memory was going into a pub in May 2016 and hearing "10,000 Miles" on the jukebox. Hearing a Christmas song in May is supposed to be awkward, but it wasn't. I blame that on Chrissy.
@@spadger9122 yeah, probably. Those Limeys pretty much stole everything they knew from the New York Dolls, Ramones, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders.....etc.
@@spadger9122 I think I remember something like that, but I was thinking one of the Stooges....but I might just be associating with "I Wanna Be Your Dog."
Strat switch tip on a tele is the way to go, in my opinion. Combine that with an angled switch control plate, it becomes much much easier to use than the traditional horizontal switch with a barrel switch tip. As far as the texture on the bridge plate, I think this is a pretty standard feature....at least most of the ones I've seen have this.
I am glad you mentioned the frets being scratchy. I had that same issue with the HER strat. The fret material that they are putting on the newer mexicans seems to be too soft. Older mex made guitars don't seem to suffer from this.
Her pickups in her guitar just maybe from the fifties as Fender always assembled their 60s guitars with 50s components; perfect case in point: the pickups and volume tone pots of Stevie Ray Vaughan's '63 Strat, previously owned by Christopher Cross, are from 1959 while the neck's from 1962. As much as I love Telecasters, that would definitely be rocked by me but not for $1400!
This is the first artist series Fender that I've seen with stock locking tuners. Hey, Fender, keep it up! (I pretty much refuse to buy any new electric guitar without locking tuners)
My respect for Chrissie Hynde not just as a musician, but as a person went up this past summer. Rush Limbaugh uses The Pretenders music (My City Was Gone), and when asked why she allows it to be used, she said, that despite her's and Limbaugh's vst difference in political beliefs she did it to honor her dad, who was huge RL fan.
Mostly all Telecaster bridge plates have the partial shiny, partial rough parts like that. One website thought maybe because Fender didn't want to waste time polishing the part of the bridge plate that you couldn't see much under the ashtray cover.
Chrissie was on the TV show ‘Friends’ playing at Central Perk. Worried and defensive, open mike regular Phoebe asks her, “So, how many chords do you know?” To which, Ms Hynde coolly replies, “All of ‘em.”
there's been a finish breakthrough in the last 5 years or so that's been really "hush hush" about how it's made. it's a modified formula in the nitro that checks as it cures and can be tweaked to make for some seriously authentic/realistic checking. this means not knives or cold air is needed. i know this because of a brief conversation that i've had with one of the guys a Pre-War Guitar Company in NC, (i have one of their gorgeous guitars), but they wouldn't say anything about the finish other than it had something to do with the formula. :D
I love it when my soldering jobs look better than the stuff coming out of the factories these days. Especially the routing of the wires. After 15 years I'm getting better!
I like that this isn't so heavily "relic'd" that it looks like it was dragged along behind a bus for fifty miles. While I normally don't bother with those or signatures, just for the overall look I'd actually consider this one. It's nice looking just on its own.
Tele bridges were only polished on one side of the pickup because the other side would be hidden by the “ashtray” bridge cover. That’s on all vintage style Tele bridges.
Next telecaster you need to get is: Charvel Joe Duplantier signature Pro Mod natural Telecaster. it’s only $899.99 (btw Joe Duplantier is the singer/guitarist for GOJIRA
Yes, I'd choose that one over Chrissie's, too; I've always liked Teles better than Strats anyway but also missed the whammy bar, and the ones that do have one usually have a Bigsby, which I'm not a big fan of.
This tele is defenently vining with me. Love the 60s style neck (those dot inlays 👏) and the tones sound great. Would sound perfect with some nice reverb for the cleans.
I did exactly that - not particularly a Chrissie Hynde fan but played it in a shop and loved it. Looks great and got a great price on it - I swapped out the scratch plate for a white one and that also looks great
I don’t think this is a pretty much standard Mexican tele as you state. The neck is old style deep C, and has a 7.25 radius. It’s rosewood rather than laurel. It’s a nitro finish rather than a poly finish, special pickups, etc etc
Interesting that this one has 2 different serial numbers, 1 on the neck plate and 1 on the headstock. Mine and all the ones I've seen pictures of online don't have a serial number on the headstock, only on the neck plate.
I read an article about Chrissy seeing the Violent Femmes busking in the street and asking them to open a show for them . End of todays Useless Information Lesson 😂
They bumped into each other again many years later; She had meanwhile forgotten all about the Violent Femmes and said to them with surprise, "Oh! So you guys are still going!?" 😄
The light relic is a bummer. I suppose its a good way to hide QC issues. 1400 bucks for a Mexican Tele???? As someone with 3 teles presently, as soon as I saw it I was excited but the QC, relic and price quickly killed the buzz. The Mexican Teles can be really good but not at that price point. . 700 bucks would be the sweet spot
I'm with you. I play teles more than other guitars ( mostly a 60s mim reissue in white) , like the pretenders and the sound of the guitar in this video, I would love a nitro finish tele . But paying that much for a guitar with defects is like paying for cold coffee, it just doesn't feel right to me. But I'm sure fender will sell a lot of these. Too bad I won't be getting one.
@@jonathanjohnson8656 yet people are paying $8K for Gibson Murphy lab relics...Go figure. This relic job is tasteful with room for it to change and improve organically.
@@moeb3325 my tele was left near the window of my practice room last winter and the finish cracked and lifted. Its been packed up for several months while I figure out what I'm going to do to fix it. I'm cool with the battle scar if I can glue it good enough to hold ( using a clamp is a must). I thought about saving up for a nitro refin, my friend got a strat done last year and I was talking to him Friday about his. His is already checking, which is cool but it is a defect technically lol. I was talking to my brother about what I was going to do with my tele, I was explaining to him that poly seals the wood while nitro " breathes " . My brother doesn't play guitar so he was really cool to listen as I speculated that the majority of the tone comes from the density of the body and the pickups . I was mostly just telling him nitro costs more for a less durable finish that is much harder to apply. And I still don't know what I'll do lol.
My step dad restored a 66 mustang many years ago and I bought a squire Tele w/ mirror pickguard and painted it with the color of the car. It looked very much like this...
Usually I'm not a fan of "signature" models but this one is just a drop dead gorgeous guitar! The metallic pick-guard and ice blue paint look incredible together...but I'd never, ever pay that much for a MIM strat.
I have one becuase it IS a faithful replica of a mid 60's Tele. I can't afford a '63 so I bought this online... totally love it. The 7.5" radius neck versus a 9.5" is so easy to play and the pups ARE killer. I don't care if it goes up in price... i will never part with Chrissie..
Wow thanks for reviewing this one Had no idea that it even existed . I think it looks fantastic and I agree with you the sound is killer . This ought to be a good seller for fender . Super sweet axe
