Your Favourite Guitar

[Steve P]

Mine will always be the Telecaster....Even though mine is a cheap Fender Squire..... I blame Chuck Prophet, he still uses his to this day, you very rarely see him use anything else.......Strummer as well, Hugh Cornwell too and Richard Thompson their all to blame.

[Rob Ross]

Count me in on that list--I've used Teles almost my entire guitar-playing life. Favoring a '72 Custom black Tele... don't say a word. My arsenal also veers towards my Gibson SG (had to do it), Epiphone Casino (sunburst, '66 model - very light and great action) and my Rickenbacker 330 (no Weller jokes, thank you very much). Occasionally I use a candy apple Strat to pretend I'm some guitar hero. But Teles RULE.

All my heroes use(d) Teles: Townshend, Weller, Marriott, Partridge, Mr. R. Gorman, J. O'Neill, Diggle, Wakeling, Alan Gill of the Teardrop, Cornwell, the good Captain Sensible, Syd--EVERYONE, so why not me?

I still use my Roland JC 120 amp, which I've used since '83, so it's a solid rig.

Still also have a Casio keyboard from those golden '80's!

Thanks to Mr. Gorman's prodding a few years ago, I finally got into the modern world and started recording digitally on a Fostex 8 track.

[Steve P]

Ahh the Gibson SG or as afriend of mine used to call it "The Devil Guitar", he always thought the body resembled 2 devil horns! Angus still uses his...though I doubt it's still the same one.

[Rob Ross]

I was hesitant for a long time on getting an SG as it was something of a '70's cliche, but then I remembered Harrison used one in the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" videos, Weller used one on the American T.V. show "Fridays" when they did "Start!" live, Brian James used one and I think Mr. J.J. O'Neill used one on "A Million Miles Away". Plus, I found a brand new one with split coil humbucking pickups in a worn cherry finish at a staggeringly low price, so I figured what the hell. Used it a lot recording The Punch Line album. Like the Epiphone, it's very light, which is good for me as I have a bad back.

[Rob Ross]

I can't believe I omitted one of the most important on my list of heroes/influences who used the Tele--the late D. Boon of The Minutemen (from whence The Punch Line got their name). His treble/scratch style with the Tele made me rethink my whole strategy in '84 after we'd morphed out of Two Minutes Hate...

[guy]

nothing beats the combined sound of a tele, and a les paul, plaued in glorious harmony, by men with heart,

[Sollophonic]

These;-



A squier standard and a squier affinity Teles, twoSquier 51s and an LP Jnr

Plus this beast

A Busker MM Blues resonator

I have a couple of Sollophonic reso conversions waiting new homes as well

[B. Hell]

The Gibson played by Geordie of Killing Joke makes a most excellent noise!