WonderCouncil wrote:I'd like to see a Toronado with single coils though. Not sure if it would look too sparse with the HUGE pickguard. Perhaps with a Tele bride and single coil in the neck it could work. One of the Fender Bigsby style plates and foaling trem. Like the Jimmy Page Bajo Sexto. A Telenado!
Aesthetically, it could probably work with JM pickups or a three PUP Strat configuration. Then again, Jags have a large pickguard and make two single coils work just fine, from a visual stand point.
But I'm fine with Toronados having humbuckers. I still tend to think of Fender as the single coil guitar, and think they should embrace this legacy more than they have in recent years, but it's good to embrace a few HB models, the Toronado being one of few I consider a success. I think Fender's business model is totally fucked, they need to embrace their classic models, but also introduce some inovation... right now, their business model (like most guitar companies) is based on appropriating tride-and-true, pre-existing models, and advertising it as innovation, when really they're just negating the "if it's not broke..." theory. Then again, I think some of the CBS era Telecaster concoctions are amazing, so maybe I'm generalizing.
But screw company politics. That band/Toronado look like a whole hell lot of fun. I'm curious how he was using that saw and what kind of sound it produced. All I can think of is GY!BE and their use of screwdrivers.
