List of Telecaster players: Difference between revisions

* [[Jonny Greenwood]] (born 1971) of [[Radiohead]] has made extensive use of the Telecaster since the late 1980s. He notably uses a Telecaster Plus model with an added cutoff switch.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thekingofgear.com/post/54630205895/jonny-greenwoods-telecasters | title = Jonny Greenwood's Telecasters | access-date = Dec 3, 2013 }}</ref>

* [[Merle Haggard]] (1937-2016) - revolutionized country music with his twangy Telecaster sound, along with Buck Owens and Roy Nichols.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fenderplayersclub.com/artists_lounge/hall_of_legends/haggard.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913180459/http://www.fenderplayersclub.com/artists_lounge/hall_of_legends/haggard.htm |archive-date=2008-09-13 }}</ref>

* [[George Harrison]] (1943–2001) of [[The Beatles]] received a prototype Rosewood Telecaster as a planned gift from Fender in 1968, which is now the basis for a Fender George Harrison Signature Telecaster. Fender selected the better of two prototypes built, flew it to England in its own personal seat along with a courier, and hand-delivered the guitar to Apple offices in January 1969. Harrison used this guitar during [[The Beatles]] famous 'Get Back Sessions' as well as on the Beatles' 1970album ''[[Let It Be (Beatles album)|Let It Be]]. Of equal notability, Harrison used the rosewood Tele for the Beatles' last public performance in 1969, famously referred to as [[Let It Be (film)#top|'the Rooftop concert']]. Harrison subsequently gave this instrument after just 11 months to Delaney Bramlett.<ref name="Duchossoir_31" />

* [[PJ Harvey]] (born 1969) used to play a borrowed 1967 Telecaster (from friend John Parish) during her early career. In a 1995 interview to Guitar Player, she declared: "John's Telecaster is closer to my heart. It's on all my records&nbsp;— I used to nick it all the time."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://room509.net/sr/articles/interview/guitarplayer1095.html | title=Working for the Woman: PJ Harvey's 6-String Surrogates | date=October 1995 | access-date=2006-11-04 | work=Guitar Player Magazine | last=Gore | first=Joe | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928075509/http://room509.net/sr/articles/interview/guitarplayer1095.html | archive-date=2007-09-28 }}</ref> Later, in 2000, when she received the [[Mercury Music Prize]], she bought her own 1960s Telecaster.

* [[Jimi Hendrix]]. Primarily a [[Stratocaster]] player, Jimi used the Telecaster and he borrowed one from his bass player Noel Redding for songs on Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Fire, The Wind cries Mary and Little Wing. These facts are confirmed by Noel Redding. There is also an interview with Hendrix where he says he owned a 7 year old Telecaster. That might however Been a joke. There is a book out called ” The grail guitar, the Search for Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze Telecaster” by Chris Adams.

* [[Robyn Hitchcock]] (born 1953) has used a Telecaster since 1979 for his distinctive English electric psychedelic sound, and said that it "... chose itself for me as my favourite electric guitar, because so many of my favourite guitar riffs were played on it."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=155 | title=Fender News | date=2007-01-06 | publisher=Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | access-date=2007-01-06 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124233553/http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=155 | archive-date=2007-01-24 }}</ref>

* [[Steve Howe (guitarist)|Steve Howe]] (born 1947) has used a 1955 Telecaster, customized with a different toggle switch and a humbucker in the neck position for the first time in the entire 1974 [[Yes (band)|Yes]] album "[[Relayer]]", and after that frequently uses his Telecaster in various live performances and in several studio recordings.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=20 | title=Fender News | date=2008-02-14 | publisher=Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224065523/http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=20 | archive-date=2009-02-24 }}</ref>