Fender Telecaster (red)

Peter Gabriel has a Fender Telecaster electric guitar at Real World Studios in Bath.

It was left behind by producer Daniel Lanois, who recorded the Us album with this guitar. Photos indicate this was once a stock natural-finished Telecaster, but sometime after Up the guitar was refinished in red (with the neck pickup replaced).

Peter himself (who isn't a guitar player by trade) fiddled with the Telecaster on the Up album to generate odd noises with it on some songs. On "More Than This", he sampled the guitar and played it on a Kurzweil keyboard.

Quotes on the Telecaster
"'This came right at the end from a thing I started with guitar samples. I was mucking around with guitars and Daniel Lanois had left his beautiful Telecaster. I can't play guitar to save my life, but I can make noises on it. The first sound that you hear on this track is me manipulating my guitar samples on the keyboard. I'd always liked it, and I was driving through the Italian Alps and found this old cassette which had this stuff and I'd been playing around with a different groove, and it started to make sense to me at that point.'"