Don't sell rhythm short! Here's a great video of Danny Gatton playing both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSvWrendeE&feature=related (on a rhythm guitar no less!) he's generally a tele man. BTW he had a video in the Arlen Roth Hot Licks Series.



Ah don't get me wrong. Rhythm is great and in a sense is the basis of guitar playing being able to back your own and everyone's songs (in my case if I know the right chords to play as I know quite a few of basic ones and practice them often) Its just that a good lead player will stand out. If a person only plays chords and is not a gret singer he/she will sometimes find themselves in a situation where someone says "play us a song" and will find himself stuck. I think to a lot of non musicians chords don't mean anything, they will just say "ah that sounds very nice but now play us something we know"

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