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(More customer reviews)I bought this one a few years back after seeing Jonny Greenwood (Coldplay) play one in concert. (He's probably better known for playing the '72 Thinline, but he played one of these as well. And I already had an SG, so I wanted something different.) And I heard that the guys in Radiohead have a thing for Thinlines as well. This guitar definitely does alternative rock; it's still a Tele, but it has a certain airy funkiness that regular slab Teles don't.
Let me be clear, though: the '69 Tele out of the box is nice, and it plays great. But the tone isn't awesome. The bridge pickup is OK, but very, very trebley, even for a Tele. The neck was just muddy, and largely unusable for me. The reason to get this guitar is that it's put together really well for a sub-$1000 guitar, it has a great wide neck, it's super light, and its really easy to swap out the pickups to make this into a truly world class guitar for a very reasonable price.
I swapped out my electronics for Duncan Alnico II's and 250k pots (about $300 installed, including a quality set up for the guitar), and this is now an absolutely killer Tele. It still has a lot of treble and Tele twang, but all the mud is gone. In fact, I think it's better sounding than my stock American Tele. I can still do alt rock, as well as jazz, blues, funk or anything else that you can do on a Tele. No question it's substantially cheaper (even after the mods), and it's a whole lot lighter as well.
So now I've got clean classic Tele tone in a very well built box that I can hold all night long, and at a great price. Viva Mexico!
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