Go for the Night Rod.
Nice to see you have silencers on your (FLST?). Laguna Beach is sonic hell on weekends due to packs of straight-pipe-sporting Harleys blasting down PCH at 7 am. Impossible to sleep late.
I'm 6'0", 180 and a Duck 998 feels like a dirt bike to me...
My favorite bikes were my '82 GS1000SZ Katanas...had two of 'em, including the first one ever sold new in LA. Those bikes were silver supersonic freight trains...
Harleys and Rickenbackers - parallels?
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Nice problem to have Paul. I'm one of those guys who have to look for a low rider just so I can touch the ground.
As far as a Rickenbacker to compliment the Confederate I would suggest a chrome plated 330/6 guitar body and neck with gold pickguard and a gold TRC and all gold hardware.
If you leaned that against your bike in a parking you'd be a chick magnet.
As far as a Rickenbacker to compliment the Confederate I would suggest a chrome plated 330/6 guitar body and neck with gold pickguard and a gold TRC and all gold hardware.
If you leaned that against your bike in a parking you'd be a chick magnet.
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I was a bit more serious there, Brian...looking for a "basic" design metaphor that would be Rickenbacker without being too conservative. Maybe we should start a thread on "What makes a Rick a Rick?", on Rickenbacker styling!
Personally, I think guys (not chicks) are into shiny chromey things. Monkeys are we. How many of us have bought that 1/4" drive, 11/32" twelve-point socket, just so we have the whole set completed?
Ricks are enough of a chick magnet with their gorgeous colors and woodgrain. And shiny fretboards, of course.
Maybe all that gelt is supposed to remind them of the color of commitment? Works for me...(shiver)
In the end, if you wanna have fun like Jones next door, chick magnets are OK. If you want to feel like there's nothing missing, it's the mind, gift of gab, and sense of humor, especially the ability to laugh at one's own foibles, that gets 'em every time.
Just like Andy Warhol's "fifteen minutes of fame", most of us have had more than our "fifteen minutes of Alpha Male", thanks to our Ricks!
Sorry to go all serious on ya, Brian!
Personally, I think guys (not chicks) are into shiny chromey things. Monkeys are we. How many of us have bought that 1/4" drive, 11/32" twelve-point socket, just so we have the whole set completed?
Ricks are enough of a chick magnet with their gorgeous colors and woodgrain. And shiny fretboards, of course.
Maybe all that gelt is supposed to remind them of the color of commitment? Works for me...(shiver)
In the end, if you wanna have fun like Jones next door, chick magnets are OK. If you want to feel like there's nothing missing, it's the mind, gift of gab, and sense of humor, especially the ability to laugh at one's own foibles, that gets 'em every time.
Just like Andy Warhol's "fifteen minutes of fame", most of us have had more than our "fifteen minutes of Alpha Male", thanks to our Ricks!
Sorry to go all serious on ya, Brian!
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Jeez Paul I figured that if Paul Stanley could break a mirror and stick it all over his Iceman then at least we could get a little more classy with our Ric invention. LOL
Gene Simmons also still packs them in with his glitter.
But hey, If it's better to be more conservative to own and play a Ric I'm in.
Still can't see a conservative Ric next to a Hellcat though.
Gene Simmons also still packs them in with his glitter.
But hey, If it's better to be more conservative to own and play a Ric I'm in.
Still can't see a conservative Ric next to a Hellcat though.
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Brian:
Let me quote myself to clarify here:
"Let's dream up a Rickenbacker counterpart to the Hellcat".
Not, "let's lean our 330-12 up against a Hellcat and wonder why nobody notices the guitar"...
It's a hell of a design challenge to re-think a Rickenbacker's essence and translate it into a current-day idiom, as Confederate has done with their bikes.
I wonder if it could be done, and what it would look like, that's all.
Let me quote myself to clarify here:
"Let's dream up a Rickenbacker counterpart to the Hellcat".
Not, "let's lean our 330-12 up against a Hellcat and wonder why nobody notices the guitar"...
It's a hell of a design challenge to re-think a Rickenbacker's essence and translate it into a current-day idiom, as Confederate has done with their bikes.
I wonder if it could be done, and what it would look like, that's all.
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.”
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Of course, everyone will have a different solution to this quandry...my own opinion is that a '74 JG 4001 fretless would be the perfect thing to be seen wearing, across the back Johnny Cash-style, whilst piloting the Hellcat to the gig...
...but maybe that's just 'cause I have the right boots to go with 'em...
...but maybe that's just 'cause I have the right boots to go with 'em...
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Sort of a cleaned-up Raising Arizona scenario on steroids with bass accompaniment, huh?
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I'm not sure if I'm a pu*** (whatever that is) or not. I have a handful of Ricks (good!), a Honda CBR600 (good or bad?) and a Strat (bad?). I also have a 60's Rock-ola (good! - I think) and an interest in Japanese maples and Koi carp (good or bad?). Am I one of the boys? or do I need counselling?
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Sheesh, the broad-brushed generalizations of harley owners is sickening. makes me wanna keep mine just to prove it wrong.
baby boomers...outlaws...blah...i looked like this long before i owned a harley!
how about just someone who prefers them over other bikes? i've ridden tons of different bikes but H-D is the one that suits me best. i love my 1200 Skirtster and will miss it when it's gone. i loved my 883 and cried when i totaled it. i'm not a HOG member or a "club" member and despise riding in big groups to go eat and drink as "brothers". i rarely ever ride with another bike and sometimes, if a girl is lucky enough, she'll be invited to ride on the back with me. it's a brotherhood of bikers as i see it, not to just one specific brand.
crisman likes the fatboy and v-rod...my 2 most hated H-Ds, but hey, that's his perogative. this spring i plan on picking up a wide glide or roadking. i toyed around with the new Triumph cruiser, but my heart wasn't in it.
H-D has a torrid past, especially those AMF years (much like Fender's CBS years, eh?) i grew up around harleys and BSAs. their style, their sound, their wrenchability is in my blood.
i rememeber hearing speak about Rick's not-so-customer-friendly era in the mid-90s from a few local dealers.
it's all about what one likes, not about what one cares about what others think they should like.
back to the subject at hand...the biggest similarity between ricks and harleys is that neither depreciate that much in value.
Dane? Right on...brother.
baby boomers...outlaws...blah...i looked like this long before i owned a harley!
how about just someone who prefers them over other bikes? i've ridden tons of different bikes but H-D is the one that suits me best. i love my 1200 Skirtster and will miss it when it's gone. i loved my 883 and cried when i totaled it. i'm not a HOG member or a "club" member and despise riding in big groups to go eat and drink as "brothers". i rarely ever ride with another bike and sometimes, if a girl is lucky enough, she'll be invited to ride on the back with me. it's a brotherhood of bikers as i see it, not to just one specific brand.
crisman likes the fatboy and v-rod...my 2 most hated H-Ds, but hey, that's his perogative. this spring i plan on picking up a wide glide or roadking. i toyed around with the new Triumph cruiser, but my heart wasn't in it.
H-D has a torrid past, especially those AMF years (much like Fender's CBS years, eh?) i grew up around harleys and BSAs. their style, their sound, their wrenchability is in my blood.
i rememeber hearing speak about Rick's not-so-customer-friendly era in the mid-90s from a few local dealers.
it's all about what one likes, not about what one cares about what others think they should like.
back to the subject at hand...the biggest similarity between ricks and harleys is that neither depreciate that much in value.
Dane? Right on...brother.
Sean, I'm guilty of generalizing sometimes, as we all are...it's always good to be called on it...
Baby boomers...outlaws...that takes in most of my 'contemporaries'. We can't help what time frame we got boomed into...
I have a friend who told me (when I was trying to work my way into it 20 years ago) that the Denver Music Scene was made up entirely of two 'types': 'Hair Farmers' and 'Lice Ranchers'.
I don't care much for lice, sooo... 'Hair Farmin' is the life for me...'
Baby boomers...outlaws...that takes in most of my 'contemporaries'. We can't help what time frame we got boomed into...
I have a friend who told me (when I was trying to work my way into it 20 years ago) that the Denver Music Scene was made up entirely of two 'types': 'Hair Farmers' and 'Lice Ranchers'.
I don't care much for lice, sooo... 'Hair Farmin' is the life for me...'
I didn't get where I am today by being on time...
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I admire individuality in any form, probably because this "culture" homogenizes personalities to a greater extent each generation. So, although phrases like, "right on, brothers!" make me shiver with their fake-bonhomie-good-fellow-well-met-hoorah nonsense, I've gotta say, right-on brothers...
It's easy to paint any group with a broad brush, and we as Rickenbacker people suffer much the same characterizations: "snobs", "effete", blah blah blah. I realized this before I posted, but also thought, "hey, let's see what others say about this issue."
So, it's neither Harleys or Ricks that I was commenting upon, but rather the tendency of some people to take the easy road to acceptance by their peers, rather than striking out on their own to develop some sort of personality in this drone universe of ours.
Peter, Dane beat me to the punch.
It's easy to paint any group with a broad brush, and we as Rickenbacker people suffer much the same characterizations: "snobs", "effete", blah blah blah. I realized this before I posted, but also thought, "hey, let's see what others say about this issue."
So, it's neither Harleys or Ricks that I was commenting upon, but rather the tendency of some people to take the easy road to acceptance by their peers, rather than striking out on their own to develop some sort of personality in this drone universe of ours.
Peter, Dane beat me to the punch.
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
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