Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

There are 3 twelve strings on Take Me Back. Besides my 450, there is Chris Wilson's Gretsch 12 and Cyril's 360. I believe Cyril also recorded another very sparse overdub part on the 360-12, just a few notes here and there where he felt it needed a bit more. There's a whole lot of chime there with al...

My rig in Flamin' Groovies: Twin Reverb and Dual Showman amps w/JBL speakers. Stereo guitars: Ric 450-12 w/toaster PUs, '54 Gretsch Country Club, Ric 360 w/button PUs & Bigsby B11 tailpiece.

I've played a 450-12 for many years. I've used it for Power Pop when I was with Flamin' Groovies and played hard rock and blues on it with Loose Gravel and the thing is really versatile as well as being a beautiful piece of really clean design, a nice, light, neck-through maple plank. My main compla...

Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, July 15, 1984. Mike Wilhelm [guitman] (The Charlatans), guitar/vocal; Barry Melton (Country Joe & the Fish), guitar; John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service), guitar; Peter Albin (Big Brother & the Holding Co.), bass; Spencer Dryden (Jeffer...

IMO, the Gretsch guitars being built at the Terada Factory in Japan may be the best made mass produced hollowbodies today. You might prefer the looks, feel or sound of a Gibson, etc but from a consistant quality of build and workmanship, the Terada Gretsches are really outstanding. My opinion exact...

I see a lot of misinformation being given out in this thread by people who don't really know what they're talking about. OK, I own a real Gretsch Country Club, made in Brooklyn in late 1953 for the 1954 model year which was the first model year for the Gretsch Country Club. The serial # indicates it...

I play my 1954 Country Club in Golden Gate Park. July 15, 1984, Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Mike Wilhelm (Charlatans, Flamin' Groovies) jams with the Dinosaurs, Barry Melton (Country Joe & the Fish), John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service), Peter Albin (Big Brother &...

Congrats on the new guitar! I just bought a Gretsch 6119 Tennessee Rose from a friend. From what I can tell, it was made around 2004. It's the more "modern" version, with real F holes and no zero fret. It has Filter Trons on it. The bridge isn't the metal bar--closer to an Adjust-O-Matic....

Because you don't want to have to super glue your fingernails to make them last? :mrgreen: A lot of these guys don't use picks or fingernails, they have callouses built up so their fingertips are hard. The other guitar player in my band plays bare finger with no nails. I've never been able to get t...

As a long time user of fingerpicks for acoustic, Rick 12 and Gretsch...I'm about to say something that is counter-intuitive. Plastic fingerpicks actually produce a harder attack than metal fingerpicks. Metal fingerpicks give a sort of soft "ching" as opposed to a harder "clang" s...

Hey Kira, can you tell me why the youtube imbed feature doesn't work for me? Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

Been awhile since I posted a vid here. This song by Willie Cobb was an R&B club band standard in the early '60s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYO9yJM66I8

Here's a jam in Kyoto back in 1995 with some Japanese musicians. I'm playing my Rick 450-12 and singing.

http://www.flyingsnail.com/Podcast/TwoTrainsRunnin.mp3

Baby Please Don't Go, Flamin' Groovies live in San Francisco, 1979. 3 twelve strings, a Ric 360, Ric 450 and a Gretsch.
http://youtu.be/sfvEqPQnNsQ