He tried to, but I was busy that night
with some of my celebrity mates: funnily enough I was only talking about this the other day with Dave Lee Travis.

I got the Tele by the way, it's fucking brilliant. My neighbours complained.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:15, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

You bought a telecaster?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:17, Reply)

I did. It's GRATE.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:19, Reply)

I like them the bestest

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:20, Reply)

I'd have preferred a Jazzmaster
but the Tele was a mere £200 so I jumped right in. It's been set up beautifully and apart from a tiny nick in the body looks brand new. It's 'candy apple red'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Did it belong to anyone famous?

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Lenny Henry.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Thud.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:28, Reply)

You should join Status Quo
I don't really like Telecasters that much to be honest, I think they look a bit boring.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:21, Reply)

I can't afford a Telecaster
So I have a Tanglewood Quomaster
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Haha! Is it actually called a Quomaster?

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Oh my god totally
It's green stained like Francis Rossi's!

faded.havocaos.com/pildikraam/tele/tele4.jpg
^ Not my actual guitar or vile sateen sheets, just got it from tinternet.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:25, Reply)

My flatmate - for some inexplicable reason - loves Teh Quo
He will be delighted if I tell him this. Plus, if I can manipulate it cleverly, since he can't play, it might encourage him to buy one for me in the hope that I will play him a couple of Quo riffs*.

*_{Highly unlikely}
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:29, Reply)

It wasn't pricey
I was 17/18 when I bought mine.
I mostly tried to play Belly songs on it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:31, Reply)

I have a copy of Star
I quite like it.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:39, Reply)

I still have it on cassette
*sighs*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:39, Reply)

I'm beginning to suspect increasingly
that by "Belly" you didn't mean Lead Belly...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:45, Reply)

Nopes
But he's a good'un and all
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I'll bet you do, you great bumlord
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKVas1Qozo4
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:43, Reply)

I love "Don't go breaking my heart"

(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:45, Reply)

u r bent

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I love the Quo up to about '73.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Why on earth is that not your screen name?
I'd 100% be Tanglewood Quomaster like a shot.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Know what, Mont?
I just might.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Good work, Quomistress.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Aw man!
I'm quizmistress and Quomistress!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:33, Reply)

For a second a thought you meant
one of these!
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:27, Reply)

NOOOOO!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:29, Reply)

They are fucking hideous
I know, I know, the sound is more important than the appearance. But if that is the case, then those guitars really do have "a face for radio."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:31, Reply)

I've played one - truely,deeply, shite.
The guitar too. The neck weighs three times the body, so it drops like a broken clock hand.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:32, Reply)

My SG does that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Yeah, they do - but sound a tad better.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I would love an SG

(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:42, Reply)

Mine’s only an Epiphone job
but it’s a special edition one in Antique Ivory with 3 gold pickups – it looks the fucking business if you ask me.

www.guitarguitar.co.uk/electric_guitars_detail.asp?stock=04041518452418
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:47, Reply)

Sorry, *wipes mouth* excess saliva...
This is why I shouldn't be allowed to wander around guitar shops. I only went in to get some strings yesterday.
"It won't hurt to have a quick look 'round the bass section," I thought. Fuck me, I had no idea Epiphone Thunderbirds were so affordable. Now a significant chunk of my brain's runtime is taken up by the possibility of flogging my Aria and getting a Thunderbird in its place.

(Not least of all because it's the bass equivalent of a Firebird, which would make Vipros insanely jealous.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:23, Reply)

Yes, do this.
Thunderbirds for Aria!
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:53, Reply)

It's awfully tempting
Though I don't know how much money I'd get back for the Aria. But worse stil, I'll get dreadfully sentimental about it - it was my first full-size bass, you see.

But it probably doesn't sound as good as a Thunderbird...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:18, Reply)

The solution is obvious, my man.
Keep them both.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:24, Reply)

I don't really have the space
And if I owned 3 basses then the Aria really would see no use at all and I'd end up flogging it anyway.

I probably shouldn't get so worked up about this. But I might go back to the shop and ask if I can have a play on it to "assist my decision."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Just one little waffer thin bass?

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:39, Reply)

I don't remember if it was a telecaster or a stratocaster, but I do remember that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:32, Reply)

I wish you wouldn't talk about your missus that way

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:32, Reply)

So ... I ... Took My Guit-Tar
and I smashed it against the floor, I smashed it against the wall, I smashed it against the hood of a car, smashed it against the body of a varsity cheerleader, smashed it against a 1981 Harley Davidson, The Harley howled in pain, the guitar howled in hate!
(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:41, Reply)

Bet you regret doing that now.
Silly Al.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:42, Reply)

I ran up the stairs to my parents bedroom
mummy and daddy were sleeping in the moonlight, I raised the guitar high above my head, and just as I was about to bring the guitar crashing down upon middle of the bed ....
(Bazongaloid, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:44, Reply)

My father awoke screaming:
STOP! WAIT A MINUTE! STOP IT BOY! What do you think you're doing? That's no way to treat and expensive musical instrument!

And I said:
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:46, Reply)

Daddy, you know I love you
but you got a hell of a lot to learn about rock and roll
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:54, Reply)

And Daddy, you know he said to me
"Oh grow up, you odious little turd."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:05, Reply)

And Daddy, you know he said to me
'I really regret adopting you, you nauseating little queer'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:10, Reply)

Does it sound as good as the Tele my old friend Mckinley Morganfield used to play?
Awesome, I'm glad it turned out to be the bargain it sounded like. £200 sounded almost to good to be true.

Cheers for those blues DVDs, by the way - I watched the Chicago/Electric Mud one last night and really enjoyed it. (Had no idea Koko Taylor was still alive. I must give her a call and see what she's been up to.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Ha!
I have a confession: one of those cases is empty as I found a disc in my DVD player last night, when I went to watch a film with my mate Zane Lowe.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:24, Reply)

Tut, tut
Andy Parsons warned me you were the forgetful sort, just before I made fun of his shiny head.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:27, Reply)

That's SO like Andy.
He's always coming out with that kind of thing down the pub.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 10:31, Reply)

Joking aside
Before you turned up the other night, there was a chap sat on the bench across from us who we suspect was one of the cast of The Office.

(Sad I know, but it's a slightly better brush with celebrity than my previous claim that I'd seen the woman who played Billie Piper's Mum in Dr Who outside the Albert Hall...)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:03, Reply)

NO WAY!!!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:08, Reply)

WAY!!!!
TRUFAX AND ALL.

I should have pissed on his shoes, then I might have a tale comparable to yours. As it was, I just thought I recognised him as one of the locals from the pub I worked in years ago, before my friend pointed out that no, he was an ack-torr.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:13, Reply)