“Danny Gatton and Jimmy Bryant have the otherworldliness that I saw in Dimebag Darrell and Randy Rhoads”: Baroness shredder Gina Gleason on 75 years of the Fender Telecaster, the magic that binds its players, and why it works for metal

Gina Gleason and Fender Telecaster.

As Fender celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with five new takes on the design, they’ve hand-picked some key musicians to explain what the model means to them. Gina Gleason is one of them – but although she’s renowned for shredding blistering hybrid-picked lead lines on her Olympic White Tele, she didn’t always play Fenders.

When she joined Baroness in 2017, her gear reflected her apprenticeship in thrash, death and black metal bands, the tribute act Misstallica, and as a musician with Cirque Du Soleil.