AndrewGG

Who says you can't do high gain with a Tele? Tell Ritchie Kotzen! Find a good single-coil size 'bucker. Bardens, for example, are expensive (and fabulous), but there are some great Duncans which will do both twang and high gain without needing to be tapped.

This is the correct answer. It's pretty much a combination of old-school stamped steel bridge, with the pickup suspended from it, and a decent pickup. Brass saddles are a little less twangy than steel.

I've never heard of PG before I'd started posting here (if that says anything about his popularity outside of guitar circles) and I honestly can't say he does a whole lot for me. To add fuel to the fire, I have to say I find more to enjoy in Clapton's playing. I see why EC became a household name, and I can't say I see that in PG. PG is renowned for his finesse, taste, touch and tone, plus he wrote some brilliant songs. There was a point early in their career when Mac with PG were outselling both the Stones and the Beatles. That's how big they were. Green was the single outstanding Blues guitarist of his generation. Clapton et al merely walked in his shadow.

you see, i've never been a blues man in the past, but i really like alot of this material i'm hearing right now. It's great especially since i've not had much of any musical revelation at all since i heard joe pass when i 12, haha. I expect i'll be giving my local record store a visit before work tomorrow morning If you can find it 'Peter Green Fleetwood Mac Jumping at Shadows, the blues years', is a brilliant introduction. (Indigo Records IGOXDCD 2507.) Try also Fleetwood Mac, 'Blues Jam at Chess', vols 1 and 2. Fleetwood Mac, 'Live at the BBC'.

Yes, they're very impressive. I had an 012 from the original Newtownards factory a few years ago where Avalon now build equally gorgeous guitars very much to George Lowden's specs.

One of the guys I work with won one in a corn flakes competition many years ago but I've never played it. You sure it was a Steer? In the early 60's Burns ran a competition with Kellogs and I think you could win a Bison; the Steer was a late 70's model.

This bubbling and flaking of finish has been documented several times on the UMGF. It is a factory defect and Martin should be contacted about it.