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, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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)