Notable Users
- Sting plays a Telecaster Bass. It first appeared in the music video for The Police's 1981 single "Demoltion Man". Fender has made a signature bass in his honor.
- Mike Dirnt from American Punk Rock band Green Day has been noted to use a Telecaster Bass
- Charlie Tumahai, from English progressive rock band Be-Bop Deluxe and New Zealand reggae band Herbs, played a 1968–1971 version of the Telecaster Bass.
- Paul McGuigan, original bassist of britpop band Oasis, also played the 1968–1971 version.
- Victor Damiani, bass player on the first and second Cake albums, used a second version Fender Telecaster Bass on the Fashion Nugget album.
- Dusty Hill, Bassist of ZZ Top
- George Porter, Jr., of The Meters, used a '68-71 Telecaster Bass in the band's early years.
- George Nowicki, bass player for The Substitute Preachers plays one of the earliest known 1968 Telecaster Bass Prototypes, which was manufactured in March 1968.
- Ronnie Wood played bass for The Jeff Beck Group and used a 1968 Telecaster Bass to tour and record the band's first two albums: Truth and Beck Ola.
- Lou Barlow has been playing a black Telecaster Bass in Dinosaur Jr since 2007.
- Jeremy Davis of Paramore has been playing a Telecaster bass since 2011
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