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Rory acquired this Telecaster Deluxe around the time of the San Francisco album recordings in 1977/1978. It was also used on the Photo-Finish album sessions in 1978.
"I got a Fender Tele-Deluxe with the humbuckers, might as well see what they're like. There's no doubt they have that heavy fat sound the single-coils don't have, but the main problem with most guitars with humbuckers, until recently, is that they used to put the wrong values in tone pots and volume pots, so when you took your volume down to 8 the guitar went dead, and you couldn't get that natural fade away sound."
- Rory Gallagher, Guitarist magazine in September 1978.