Why a 370 if Roger only uses 1 pickup

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 1:06 am

I read an article in which Roger McGuinn said he only used the treble (bridge) pickup. He said he never uses the other positions. I assume this is true because:

A) Why would he lie

B) I have seen him several times. Once I was about 10 feet away. And sure enough, he only used the down position on the selector switch.

So my question is this:

If he only uses the treble pickup, why have a 3 pickup guitar???

Am I missing something?

leep · Post by **leep** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 2:27 am

Because 370s are super-deluxe, sweet, and all around objects of desire.

FrankN · Post by **FrankN** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 2:44 pm

Well Rick didn't make a single pickup 360. so Roger started with two.

And he thought that John's 325 looked to cool with 3 pickups(don't we all). So he had one added.

Spyboy · Post by **Spyboy** » Thu May 03, 2001 7:25 pm

I also learned from an interview that he requested that his Signature 370RM have only one pickup. Rickenbacker negotiated with him to include the other two for authenticity sake.

rick12dr · Post by **rick12dr** » Fri May 04, 2001 5:07 pm

If Roger really only wanted 1 PU, I think Rick could have said," OK, just for You, we'll put 1 PU on it, but how about putting unwound coil PUs under the other 2 covers, just for aesthetics".
This could have been done easily, and would have
looked totally stock[appeasing the public], but
giving Roger all he needs at the same time.On production models they could have used 3 real PUs,
[as they did].