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Uncle Buck and I have deduced it to be champagne. You can record directly through a DI or multi-effects processor. Fenders first Spanish-style guitar was a lesson in functional simplicity with its. You can go old school and mic up an amp (or even multiple amps). There's too many other color hues for it to be straight silver. There are so many ways to record guitar these days. That screenshot you used above does not point to silver. If you’re after Don Rich’s low-E string thwack, it’s here by the bucketful. One thing is for certain, the Vintera ’60s Telecaster twangs like a mother.
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From that moment I knew what I wanted to. More heavy rock-centric players may dig it less. To me, this again points to the champagne route. When I was 7 years old I asked my parents for a guitar after seeing Don Rich play his telecaster behind Buck Owens.
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I remember someone posted on here a while back about seeing a 1964 Champagne Sparkle J-Bass that Doyle used. Another reason that I think it's champagne. When you look at THE GUITAR it has a goldish hue but it's not gold. It is complete silver, at times it even had a subtle blueish hue. The silver Sparkle is very "cool" colorwise. When you look at camera close ups from the Ranch Shows on THE GUITAR and compare them with the later shows that have Silver Sparkle Teles, the guitars appear different. What's more, the Silver Sparkle Teles Don and Buck used all had plain black binding. There are pictures of Buck and Don playing sparkles Telecasters in 1965, so this tells me that it was not Silver Sparkle. The 4 way switching also adds another dimension to it. I love the feel of the 9.5 radius neck on my new 60s Baja Tele, so with the increased string gauge Im planning on spending a lot of time with it. Jerry Brightman has told me that Don's Silver Sparkle Tele (The main one with matching headstock) was a 1966. New V-Mod II Telecaster single-coil pickups are more articulate than ever while delivering the twang, snap and snarl that made the Tele famous. Telecaster Love Thread, No Archtops Allowed. I've always said that the Telecaster that you see on the early Buck Owens Ranch Shows (March 15, 1966) is champagne.