'53 Re-Issue Fender Telecaster (2-color-sunburst) Fender Telecaster with a Bigsby tremolo (2-color sunburst) '52 Re-Issue Fender Telecaster butterscotch blonde (this is one of Springsteen's best known guitars) '52 Fender Telecaster Esquire (natural) We'll try to give you a good feel for what he's played here, but aren't going to show them all.įender Stratocasters (cherry red, white, natural, silver) Note: Bruce Springsteen has played a ton of different guitars. Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Bruce Springsteen's Guitar Rig.Ĭlick the gear images for more info and specs at Guitar Center and Amazon If anyone can add to this, please post a comment We have a good collection of stuff he has reportedly used and currently uses. Surprisingly there is less info out there than one would think. We spent tons of time researching Bruce Springsteen's guitar gear rig and equipment. With a name like that he must have one hell of a guitar rig. Playing with the E Street Band, Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered around his native New Jersey. For now, that’s not going to happen, since the Tele has been Bruce Springsteen’s partner for more than 40 years now, and that partnership shows no sign of ending.Bruce Springsteen, is one hell of a singer, songwriter and guitarist. It’s been estimated that the guitar is worth anywhere between $1 million and $5 million, depending upon the collector that could manage to get his hands on it. He now plays clones of his original Tele on tour, but still uses his favorite when he records. He added his patented triangular Precision Frets, a six saddle titanium bridge, and custom hot-wound waterproofed pickups and electronics so they could better survive a sweat-soaked 4 hour show.īruce played the guitar in virtually every live show until around 2005, when the wear and tear of the road finally took it’s toll and the guitar was retired. Petillo removed the extra pickups and returned the guitar to original Telecaster shape before he sold it Springsteen, but a huge side effect of the routing was that the Tele was now really light, giving it a sound a feel unlike any other (see the picture on the left).īruce wasn’t one to sit still with one version of the instrument however, and over the years had it significantly modified, all personally done by Petillo. As a result of the modification, a lot of the body underneath the pickguard was routed out for the extra electronics.
The thought behind this wasn’t so much for the sound, but so that the session player original owner could collect four times union scale for playing four slightly different versions of the same guitar part.
The Telecaster body was originally jury-rigged with four pickups wired into extra output jacks so that each could plug into a separate channel of a recording console. Like “Blackie,” Bruce’s Telecaster is a hybrid of parts collected from at least 2 other guitars. It’s a 50’s Telecaster body with what looks to be a 57 Esquire neck originally purchased from Phil Petillo’s Neptune NJ guitar shop for $185. But there is another that fits nicely into this category and deserves equal attention because of its backstory, and that’s Bruce Springsteen’s very unique Telecaster. King’s “Lucille” ES355 are just a few that come to mind. Eric Clapton’s “Blackie” and “Brownie” Strats, Brian May’s home-built one-off, Neil Young’s “Old Black” Les Paul, and B.B. There are some guitars that are forever linked to certain musicians. The Story Behind Bruce Springsteen’s Iconic Hybrid Telecaster
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