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They're so rad.
Was talking to Rickster last week and amongst other things we discussed our respective bag of stock "licks". Rick mentioned the standard 23 (or something) that every decent player has. I think my bag contains three at best these days. I've held such an aversion to dad-rock/blues rock Guitarist cover feature fodder for so long that I've studiously avoided learning any standard "licks" and in retrospect that was stupid and self-limiting.
The upshot is that I've been studying Albert King and SRV tunes and copping left right and centre. It's been fun!
As a side effect of trying to play along with Texas Flood I tuned my Tele down to Eb. What a difference! Holy shi*t. Suddenly I can bend with some degree of accuracy! I can bend up and add vibrato on the 1st string, something I never really had the strength or control to do on a Fender with 10s tuned to standard. It was always a bit hit and miss before but this is a world of difference.
I think I'm going to leave the Tele in Eb for a while....