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    I really wanted Fender to create a tribute Tele in Terry Kath’s memory, but the wife does not want me refinancing the home to buy it.



    The example looks soooo authentic and I have to bet any of them sold will be decor rather than musical instruments.

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    If I had 20k to blow on a guitar it sure as heck wouldn't be a plank

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    What's a Terry Kath?

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    P.T. Barnum was right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pcjazz
    What's a Terry Kath?
    Former lead guitarist of Chicago, he passed away some years ago. You can hear him on "25 or 6 to 4". Jimi Hendrix famously called him the best guitarist in the world back in the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pcjazz
    What's a Terry Kath?
    Just in case this was not sarcasm, he was lead guitarist and founding member of Chicago. In addition to being an innovative guitarist, he was a talented songwriter. The first tracks on the first and second Chicago albums were his tunes..

    He was also a founder/endorser for Pignose.

    For some reason he is known for this modded Tele, but the three time I saw him he played a Strat and Les Paul Recording.

    Stupidly blew his own brains out in what the LAPD called an accident.

    He was of course known in jazz circles:


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    My pocket is small, and only has about $20 burning a small hole in it. No reasonable person is going to pay $20,000 for a Tele and play it. So of course it's going to be decor, in a mansion or penthouse somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim777
    ... Jimi Hendrix famously called him the best guitarist in the world back in the day.
    Maybe he did that only to annoy Clapton.

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    I've always felt that Terry Kath was the rock equivalent of Coltrane - unbridled virtuosity and raw emotion - Regarding Clapton, Hendrix and Kath... Terry was the man, by far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Neverisky
    Maybe he did that only to annoy Clapton.
    As I recall Jimi was enamored of Billy Gibbons and Dave Mason as well.

    Wonder what he would have thought of Stevie Ray.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alder Statesman
    Just in case this was not sarcasm, he was lead guitarist and founding member of Chicago.
    No sarcasm intended. I had never heard of him or listened to Chicago. Rock and pop just passed me by. No judgment intended.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Neverisky
    Maybe he did that only to annoy Clapton.
    It may well have! But I doubt that was it

    Anyway, here's a solo from 23 year old Kerry in a song about running out of cocaine at oh, somewhere around 3:35 AM or so....


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    TBH I barely knew of him in detail until the Chicago documentary showed up on Netflix about 2 years ago. That gives a good look at his and the band's career.

    Though when a great guitarist says so-and-so is a really good guitarist, one should pay attention.