See thread title. Did Les Paul (the person) ever play / record on / say what he though of Telecasters? This question seems impossible to google. You get zillions of comparisons / videos of the the two instruments’ pluses and minuses, nothing about Les Paul (the person) and his opinions on Teles.
My guess is Les Paul thought Teles were too simple / not enough options. See the Les Paul Recording Model (yeesh!) for something Les thought was a proper guitar. :eek:
It’d be cool if there was a video of Les Paul playing a Telecaster!
I have nothing to add to the actual question, but I will mention that the display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the history of the development of the electric guitar is, in my opinion, the only reason to ever visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Wow, that is an amazing article, don’t ask. It took me like 30 minutes to read past the first 2 dozen entries and just skip to the LP Tele we were discussing. The top entries were predictable, but the writer had good info on almost all of them.
Um… Les Paul didn’t have that much to do with the design of the LP guitar. He was brought in during the prototype stage with the hopes that he would let them put his name on it, help market it, and play them. I strongly suspect if Fender was willing to pay Les a royalty on every broad/no/telecaster with his name on it Les would have been elated to play a Fender guitar.