Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The Band's Jim Weider bagged his career-defining '52 Telecaster, when he was broke and working in a car wash

“I went across the country to do my California road trip in my Volkswagen, and along the way, I was looking for a Tele,” he recalls in the latest edition of Guitarist. “I found one from the late-’50s in Oklahoma, but it wasn’t quite right, so I sold it to Jim Messina [of Buffalo Springfield]. I think I paid $100 or $150.”

Fast forward a few years, and Weider was out of cash and paying the bills “I was broke and working in a car wash in Santa Barbara and saw an ad in the paper for a ’52 Telecaster,” remembers Weider.


Yes, I read about car stuff everywhere

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