Jerry Garcia used an SG in 1969/70. Listen to the Warner Bros Grateful Dead album(or CD as it is now) title “Live Dead’’ and listen to “Dark Star’’. Garcia did some amazing things with feedback and the SG. A Telecaster huh? Have you got a crane to pick it up? Those things are heavy! All those country music playing cowboys love that tele sound. It’s that tremlo in it.
Mine's not a heavy guitar at all. It weighs a little more than my Stratocasters because it's a natural Ash model.
My Tele's several pounds lighter than my Les Paul, ES-355, and Rickenbacker 381v69, and probably some other guitars.
It's notable for the country sound, but Keith Richards (a five-string Telecaster), Bruce Springsteen, and Bonnie Raitt play Telecasters.
Jimi Hendrix recorded "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" on a Tele. George Harrison's rosewood Telecaster is famous as the guitar he played during the Beatles' rooftop concert (Google "Get Back Beatles Rooftop"). Jimmy Page played "Stairway to Heaven" on a Telecaster. And let's not forget Muddy Waters, Robbie Robertson of The Police, and . . . well, some others.