Oh yeah @artemus_5, I forgot Albert played a Tele, not that common amongst Blues players (though Mike Bloomfield played one in The Butterfield Blues Band.). The Tele is just about the ipso facto standard in Country, of course. I’ve played with a lot of Tele players (I too am a drummer), and though it often sounds thin (in comparison with double-coil pickup guitars such as most Gibsons), that is affected by the player’s choice of amplifier. When I recorded with Evan Johns (his Moontan album), he plugged his Tele into a blackface Fender Super (four 10" drivers, 65 watts. Steve Ray Vaughan’s standard amp.), cranked up to 10. Massive sound, though you wouldn’t know it to hear the album (not a good mix, though my drums sound great! 60’s Ludwigs, modern Ludwig chrome-over-brass 14 x 6.5 snare, Zildjian and Paiste cymbals).
The most piercing guitar I ever heard was Ray Davies’ Tele, live in 1970. The guitar was plugged into a HiWatt stack, and MY GOD was it loud. Far louder than Pete Townshend when I saw The Who in ’68 and ’69 (Gibson ES335, one of my favorite guitars), and Clapton in Cream (a Gibson SG into a Marshall stack. Mediocre tone imo, though not nearly as bad as Jack Bruce’s Gibson bass, about the worst I’ve ever heard. The Best? John Entwhisle’s Fender Precision, and Jack Casady’s Guild.).
