Fender Custom Jazz Telecaster - Single Pickup vs Fender Danny Gatton Telecaster
The Fender Custom Jazz Telecaster - Single Pickup and the Fender Danny Gatton Telecaster are both electric guitars sharing bright. The Fender Danny Gatton Telecaster leans full and smooth.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.50% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Jazz
- Blues
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- bright
Fender Custom Jazz Telecaster - Single Pickup
Fender · electric guitar
Fender Danny Gatton Telecaster
Fender · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$4725via Reverb
Ritchie Blackmore has been photographed and filmed playing a black custom Fender Telecaster with only a single pickup and a vintage bridge cover, most notably during Rainbow's 1997 Shadow of the Moon tour in Yokohama. Blackmore is overwhelmingly a Stratocaster player, so this stripped-down Jazz-bodied Telecaster is an outlier in his rig rather than a mainstay, and detailed build records for the instrument are sparse compared to his numbered Strats. The single-pickup layout and vintage-style ashtray-style bridge cover give it a leaner, more direct output than a standard two-pickup Tele. It surfaces in his live history as a change-of-pace instrument rather than a guitar tied to any particular studio recording.
The Fender Custom Shop Danny Gatton Signature Telecaster recreates Gatton's heavily modified vintage 50s Tele with swamp ash body, maple neck, and dual custom Joe Barden pickups modeled on his original guitar's specs. The Barden pickups deliver bright, twangy, biting, and crystal-clear tone with warm snappiness and full humbucking without true humbucker harshness, noiseless and handling everything from twangy country to smooth jazz to gritty blues. A fat custom 50s U-shaped neck with 9.5-inch radius and vintage frets enables big pedal-steel bends and chords alike.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Smooth Jazz
- Country
- full
- smooth
- transparent