Chords for The Edge on the Telecaster | Fender

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There's very few objects that you can think of
that [N] influenced an entire movement of music
that if they didn't exist, could have
or probably would have changed the course of musical history.
I think the Fender Telecaster is one of those iconic objects.
I can't imagine rock and roll existing without it.
It was the first sort of widely available electric guitar
and it defined so much about that instrument
and everything else that happened as a result in guitar design
that it sort of stands out on its own
as being a kind of _ watershed moment in instrument design.
_ You just think of the music that came out of it.
_ Would there have been the great Rolling Stones songs?
Would there have been the great Johnny Cash country songs?
Would there have been _ the great early Led Zeppelin recordings? Jeff Beck?
You just think about all of the guitar players
that used [Dm] that instrument over the years.
[Eb] It's had an incredible impact on [Gb] music.
And me as a guitar player,
I'm more sort of famously used Stratocasters and other guitars,
but when I [D] picked up a Tele
that my good friend at Guitar Tech Dallas,
she bought for me a few [Eb] years ago for the first time,
I [N] was totally inspired,
and the song Vertigo came out as a result of
playing around with that particular guitar for an hour or two one day.
It had music in it, and that's, for a guitar [E] player and writer,
that's what [Eb] you're looking for in an instrument
to discover the songs [F] that have yet to be discovered in that guitar.
So I'm a fan, a huge [Eb] fan of the Telecaster,
as [E] I think anyone who [Eb] plays guitar should be,
and [N] I _ want to say congratulations to Leo Fender for the Fender Company
and all those involved in designing and manufacturing this [E] iconic instrument
on this particular anniversary of its [Gb] invention.
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