Lead guitarists playing a rickenbacker 6 string?

westtexasrickenbacker · Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:55 am

Such Beautiful guitars! I was wondering about great lead players endorsing Rickenbackers.

Huge fan of the company, but can anyone out there fill me in on great players cutting classic solos on a Rickenbacker?

If not so many, why not?

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:34 am

This topic has been discussed before. If you do a search you will find it.

A QUICK list off the top of my head - George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, John Kay, John Fogerty, Mike Campbell, etc. etc. etc.

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:43 am

ummm... just some more quickies: Pete Townsend, Peter Buck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kenny Howes (you owe me one Kenny).

...Dean

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:22 am

Joe Walsh on his 230GF. Paul Weller played some leads on his 330's. Me!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:58 am

Not a great lead player, but he manages.

nab · Post by **nab** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:45 pm

Dean,
What did Stevie Ray use RIC-wise? This is (cool) news to me...

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:00 pm

Jack: Stevie Ray played an old Capri. Someone has a photo that they've posted in several other threads.

nab · Post by **nab** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:08 pm

Thanks, will look. I'd love to see that!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:37 pm

I got these from this forum a while ago

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:54 pm

Don't tell anyone but I understand that guitar was the secret to his unique sound that nobody else seems to be able to precisely duplicate with a FFFFFFFender. Shhhhh! This has to be kept quite otherwise RIC will be inundated with orders and we will be left out in the cold.

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:00 pm

Marty Willson-Piper (the Church, All About Eve, Noctorum), Paul Weller (Jam, solo), Hilton Valentine (the Animals), Johnny Marr (Smiths, The The, Pretenders, etc.), etc...

I solo on mine all the time.

nab · Post by **nab** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:05 am

thanks for the pix, Jerry. Saw him several times, but no RICs around, unfortunately.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:19 am

Others have tried Rickenbacker from time to time as well.

woodsgirl · Post by **woodsgirl** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:44 pm

I ran onto this list
http://www.edromanguitars.com/guitar/rickenbacker/artists_ric.htm

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:39 pm

Some on that list are suspect in my view but hey, maybe old Ed knows something that I don't.