Getting a new guitar!?

[Tommygunn]

My parents want to get me something for my birthday, but I don't really want a new bass (well one that in their price range). And right now I have a squier bullet strat at my moms, and an Ibanez gio at my dads. Both are rather crappy. So I figured I'd get a guitar! ( dont kill me).

So I've been thinking, what do my favorite guitarists use? (Player-guitar-song)
Bradley Nowell/Rome Ramirez-strat-wrong way
Billy Joe (pre american idiot)-strat-welcome to paradise
David Gilmour-Strat-comfortably numb
Guys from 'The Strokes'- strat/tele/gibson es-under cover of darkness
(^I really can't remember their names, and I'm too lazy to google it)

Only thing is... I don't like strats, I like teles though.

So I wanna get a non-strat guitar (preferably a tele) for under $300 that will be able to nail all these tones.
Thanks.

[Coop Soup]

The Nashville Tele has three pickups. You can pull tele and certain strat sounds out of it. You might be able to find one used in the $300 - $400 range.

[TN WOODMAN]

Vintage vibe Squier tele, 3 color sunburst , bound body. Under 300 out the door including tax. Best guitar value available new at the moment. Or buy used.

[jollygiantchris]

XV-825 Solid Ash "KEEF" Model- Mini Hum neck Pickup Maple Fingerboard

Perhaps?

[BASSATTACK]

Check out the Squier VM Thinline. 299$, and it smokes.

[totallyfrozen]

Originally Posted by Tommygunn

My ...Only thing is... I don't like strats...

HERESY!!
BURN THE WITCH!

[Heathen]

Originally Posted by BASSATTACK

Check out the Squier VM Thinline. 299$, and it smokes.

Not in public places, I hope

[iamlowsound]

You say you don't like strats, is that how they look or how they play? If it is how they play, check out some G&L tributes, or any old G&L guitar, there was a beautiful one in the classifieds a few weeks ago. I would have bought it if I had the money.

lowsound

[Tommygunn]

Originally Posted by iamlowsound

You say you don't like strats, is that how they look or how they play? If it is how they play, check out some G&L tributes, or any old G&L guitar, there was a beautiful one in the classifieds a few weeks ago. I would have bought it if I had the money.

lowsound

I don't mind the looks, just how they play.



And I went to GC today. I found exactly what I want. A blacktop Jazzmaster HS. It had everything I wanted but the neck felt too thick, and the action/string spacing felt weird. If I could have that sound in the CV burst w/ binding tele I played (best feeling guitar they had!), I'd be a happy man.