Fender Telecaster (red)

Daniel Lanois owned a Fender Telecaster electric guitar (possibly a sunburst, which he used during the making of Peter Gabriel's Us album between 1989 and 1992. The guitar, however, was left behind by Daniel at Real World and has remained there since the recording of Us.

Peter Gabriel later experimented with the Telecaster on the Up album, generating odd noises with it on certain songs (as he isn't a guitar player), which he sampled and further manipulated by using a keyboard. This can be heard on "More Than This".

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.'"