Chords for Jim Campilongo on His '59 Telecaster

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_ _ Hey Barry, well I'm Jim Campolongo.
I'm here with Barry Cleveland and Tim Saruta _ and Bill Brady and at Guitar Player Headquarters.
I'm [G] going to talk about Dream Dictionary and Telecasters.
_ _ _ I guess first off I could talk about my guitar and that's my 59 Telecaster. _
_ It's a top loader.
It's got a maple neck.
A lot of times people think it's a rosewood neck but it's just everything came off it.
Which is kind of nice.
_ And it's a top loader which I didn't know.
I mean somebody actually gave me this guitar _ about 20 years ago.
_ And I loved it.
I just loved the guitar.
And then about 6 months later somebody goes, oh that's a top loader.
That's kind of a dog.
And my feelings were hurt.
I was like what do you mean?
And they go, well the strings don't go through the body.
They just go through the end here.
And _ _ that's what makes this guitar unique and that's what makes a 59 unique.
[E] But I like it and when I play a Telecaster or when I play a Telecaster that [G] isn't mine,
the first couple notes I play _ _
_ [D] are those.
Because I think those really tell and I'm in treble position.
Those tell if it's like, _ _ sometimes you [C] feel like somebody slapped your ear [Eb] when you play C sharp.
[D] _ _ _ _ I mean I don't know why it's those.
You would think it would [Em] be that one.
But it's like right around here it's like they're really [Ebm] particularly abrasive.
And on this guitar they're not at all.
You [A] know it's like, got a [B] really nice response. _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ And that's treble [E] position.
And that's very mellow. _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Everything's stock.
Well everything's replaced and stock.
These have been replaced at least a couple of times.
I replace this one probably every couple of years.
I have a couple extra _ in my case.
And there's like _ real wear mark.
You could see like, that's what's so fascinating about old guitars is you see,
oh I must do something there.
I must do something here, obviously.
But _ _ _ there's these marks where the tuning pegs are.
And you could see my hand, I don't know, I'm not quite sure what I do.
But I'm wearing something out there.
And you could see, [Em] I don't know if you could get this Tim,
but the back of the guitar is very, it almost looks frail.
I say it looks like an old lady's wrist.
You know it really does, doesn't it?
To me. _ _
Really?
Yeah.
_ Really old lady.
[Gb] _ _ [A] Yeah. _ _ _
About how old?
_ _ _ _ Anyway, so, but it does.
And I kind of like that.
It's like kind of poetic to me, just like we all feel about Telecasters.
I mean, gosh, you know, I've been looking at this guitar for over,
maybe 20 [E] years, over 20 years, and I still marvel at it.
You know, there's something just eternally beautiful about a Telecaster.
To me anyway, and I think to all of us.
_ But, oh, is it stock?
The pickups, both within a few months, snapped internally. _
Yeah, and I was doing a gig, and all of a sudden, [G] you know,
what sounds normally [A] like this, you know, I can't really approximate it,
but it just sounded like, you know, maybe something like,
[E] like it sounded really thin and [G] weird.
And I took it _ to Gary Brower, who I know writes an [E] article for you guys.
And, you know, he said, I think the pickup snapped internally.
And so he sent it to Seymour Duncan.
_ And I got a Seymour Duncan replacement, and I really liked it, actually.
_ And I forgot what it was.
This is a long time ago.
This is probably 16 years ago.
And so anyway, Seymour Duncan rewound it, and I really liked it.
And [G] then it happened to this pickup about a few months later.
So they're both rewound pickups, but for many years ago.
I mean, prior to me recording any records or anything, these were.
So, but it's still stock.
Everything's stock on it. _ _