I’m thinking of changing telecaster pickups , any advice please ?!!

riffpowers

I’ve borrowed a nice mij tokai breezysound 62 custom style telecaster.
its a nice guitar , and I’ve been playing it a lot in the house , but I haven’t been gigging it .
one of the club bands I play in do punk / new wave stuff (stranglers , dickies, dead boys , buzzcocks, thunders , clash,stooges, damned , ramones  etc ) so I thought the breezy might fit . But the stock bridge pickup is a bit under powered for that type of thing.  
I wondered if it might be worth upgrading it to something more powerful and gigging it . It’d be good to get les Paul type output and crunch out of it (my other guitar is an lp custom ) but I don’t want to lose too much of the character of the guitar. 

What you guys reckon ?!

munckee

Tex Mex are quite punchy in a tele, I had them in a roadworn, they weren't vintage enough for me but sounded great with a bit of overdrive.

noisepolluter

[scratched record] Oil City Diesel Tap.

Full output gives a substantially fatter tele sound, and you’ve got twang when tapped. 

guitars4you

Oil City Honky Tonk last time I went down this route - pure vintage at its best - Does everything a great Tele should

stimpsonslostson

I was also going to suggest Oil City.
 A FortyNiner 

Chat to Ash, he'll see you right. 

springhead

Plus one for Oil City Honky Tonk Angel. Mine sounded fab with our band last week. No pedals, crunchy amp, glorious. 

blueskunk

Fender 51 Nocasters 

chris_john

Seymour Duncan vintage Broadcaster in the bridge does it for me. 

normula1

My dad had a Breezysound double bound custom in the late 80s that was an absolutely stonking guitar. Hope yours is as fantastic as that one was.

Roland

stimpsonslostson said:

Chat to Ash, he'll see you right. 

That’s the best answer. We all have our individual preferences

Warblington

Check out the Little Guitar Shop in Birmingham. Martin is a Tele player in a Quo tribute band.He hand winds his own pick ups.Let him know what you're looking.He made some for me for a Tele (non Fender relic) .Wonderful sound.It's an option.p.s. the video on his site doesn't do the pups justice.

meltedbuzzbox

Roland said:

stimpsonslostson said:

Chat to Ash, he'll see you right. 

That’s the best answer. We all have our individual preferences

If it was talk to Marc, at mojo pickups i would agree

Mojo broadcaster set all the way

Rocker

Gibson SC Melody Maker, the single pickup model.  As much punk rock as you can handle.  And some more......

merciful-evans

Why not just use your LP Custom?

Johnnyseven

Mojo Broadcaster or Esquire get my vote, the latter is slightly less trebly and a bit fuller sounding than the Broadcaster.

riffpowers

merciful-evans said:

Why not just use your LP Custom?

I do !! It’s for those times when it’s gettinf fixed or snapped a string .

Moleman

Deacci (Northern Ireland) have some hotter winds available for Tele bridge pickups that might fit the bill for the sort of sounds you are going for.

TTBZ

+1 for Oil City, the Wapping Wharf I had was nice and fat sounding, held up well next to my LP. It didn't quite have the midrange bite and top end I wanted though but may have been because it was in a telemaster which had a massive body compared to a Tele. In hindsight the Alligator 90 is probably what I should have gone for and if I get a Tele again it'll have one of them!

BloodEagle

Just turn the gain up on your amp or pedal, no one listening will give a shit anyway 

stimpsonslostson

TTBZ said:

+1 for Oil City, the Wapping Wharf I had was nice and fat sounding, held up well next to my LP. It didn't quite have the midrange bite and top end I wanted though but may have been because it was in a telemaster which had a massive body compared to a Tele. In hindsight the Alligator 90 is probably what I should have gone for and if I get a Tele again it'll have one of them!

The alligator is amazing. With the volume rolled off to 6 it sounds like a Tele, turn up the wick & you're in LP Jr snarl territory.
I've got one in my Esquire & love it. 

pintspiller

Are you sure it's a problem with the guitar? Some of the bands you cited had Tele players. Wouldn't the pickups have been similar/same as what we call "vintage"? Depending on your amp, wouldn't it be more a case of a bit more preamp gain or using a pedal?