Is Fender working on a Tom Morello Soul Power Telecaster?
2020 held a lot of surprises, but one of the gear worlds biggest shocks was the arrival of an official signature guitar from Tom I dont do signature models Morello: the Fender Soul Power Stratocaster. And now that door is open, it seems Fender could be lining up another collaboration with the Rage Against the Machine guitarist  but it might not be the model you expect. In a new video posted to his social channels, Morello tears through the main riff from Lightning Over Mexico, taken from The Catastrophists EP, his new collaborative effort with EDM mainstays The Bloody Beetroots. But the guitar hes using for his playthrough is most definitely not his go-to Sendero Luminoso Telecaster. With its double-bound black-finished body and mirror scratchplate, the guitar in Morellos hands is essentially a Soul Power Telecaster, minus the Sharpied slogan  such a guitar never existed during his tenure with Chris Cornell-fronted supergroup Audioslave, and points towards a new collaboration with Fender. Other notable features include a killswitch mounted on the guitars lower horn, a six-saddle hardtail bridge, non-locking Fender tuners, The Atlas Underground sticker and what appears to be a Fender Vintage Noiseless bridge pickup  of course, two VN single coils previously appeared in the SP Strat. Sure, it could be a one-off custom job. But given Fender CEO Andy Mooney has previously stated that Morello has signed on to recreate all his guitars, we wouldnt rule out all-new designs, either. And while the Sendero Luminoso Telecaster is the guitar that lit the drop-D flame in Killing in the Name and a host of incendiary RATM and Audioslave jams, it was nothing more than a stock 1982 Tele  an all-new Telecaster offering is arguably a more enticing proposition. Suffice to say, were looking forward to Morellos future collaborations with Fender, and well be bringing you more news on the Soul Power Telecaster as soon as we have it.