Yep, I have a 2006 Highway 1 Tele. I never really cared for the twangy country-western sound that the Telecaster is known for but the Highway 1 model is pretty versatile. I can get just about anything I want out of it by tweaking the tone knob. Country spank to just about the Clapton "Beano" tone.
Playing my Tele makes me understand how a Telecaster and a small amp produced the guitar sound on Led Zeppelin's debut album.
Of course I still have my Strats and Les Pauls too. You gotta cover ALL the bases!
right now, i don't currently have any telecasters, but i have had six or seven over the years ('65, '68', '78, am std tele, squier std tele, and a fernandez tele copy of a butterscotch-blackguard model that i can remember)
what i do now, to cover the current bases i am on, namely big band bebop (is why i have a hollowbody - ibanez with flatwounds) and on a rare occassion i have a punk band (which is why i have a solidbody with humbuckers - esp/ltd viper with emg hz's), but if i just had one guitar on a desert island, it would be an old pre-CBS telecaster
but the am. std tele was the loudest highest out put tele i ever had and that could actually handle the punk/metal music i play since that tele doesn't have the traditional tele twang of old, but a heavy midrange bridge pickup approaching that of a standard humbucker, especially when cranked with distortion through a marshall
a fender tele with a stock fender red lace sensor bridge pickup though is every bit as powerful and full sounding as any gibson humbucker and fender had some of those in the 90s...monsterous and gothic to the core
i had a friend put one of those fender red lace sensor pickups in his charvel V and that thing rocked hard and had more output than his charvel/jackson stock pickup
fender got smart starting in '85 with head honcho shultz and put more midrange into the fender and squier telecasters and listened to all the old school tele rock players who often put hotter pickups in their teles and traded twang for balls
even country players opted for hotter, fatter bridge pickups and bardens and texas specials are a testament to that trend
but i still kind of like the old, underpowered '65 and '68 teles i had and they had a surf tone that can't be replicated by the hotter stock tele pickups of today
