Best uses for a Rick 6-string

drumbob · Post by **drumbob** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:20 pm

I could use a little refresher course on the best uses in rock music for a Rick 6-string, now that I'm getting one, I think it would work well on some of the sixties tunes my band plays: Love, Troggs, Buffalo Springfield, Standells, Beatles, Small Faces, etc. I never see guitarists using Ricks for blues or hard rock, so I'm assuming they're not the ideal instrument for those styles. I have Les Pauls, Strats and an SG for those, if need be.

Your opinions?

Also, what is the general ohm output on Hi-Gain pickups?

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:01 pm

Early REM, Smiths, Church?

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:32 pm

The BEST use is ALL the time!

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:55 pm

I agree, they can be used for any kind of music.

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:15 pm

Bob, the Rickenbacker 6 string is my go to guitar for everything from beautiful arpeggios to crunched power chords to lead work.

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charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:21 pm

Ok Noel. You got me in your profile...... Wouldn't post contemporary be in the future? Please to 'splain!

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:05 pm

LOL...that reminds me..my architect designed me a post-contemporary home...unfortunately as such it needs to be constructed in the future, which is never quite here, so I'm still living in a van by the river.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:26 pm

Bob, perhaps a toaster-equipped Rick would not be my first choice for hard rock, but a Rick with Higains will do the job and then some!

With the gain cranked up, my Higain-equipped 330 reminds me of am ES- 335, with just a little more of that great single coil bite.

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:47 am

I've used both my 1997 and HB equipped 360 for blues and rockabilly. I've also used them along with my 360/12CW for some classic country.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:44 am

Also, Brian Medway posted a clip of 'Crossroads" a while back. Sounded very much like Freddy King, who was best known for using a Gold Top Les Paul, so I'd say a Rick is fine for blues.

A little experimentation will prove just how versatile a Rick is!

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:38 am

I never see guitarists using Ricks for blues or hard rock...

So, why don't you be the first on your block?

JimK

charliesharkey · Post by **charliesharkey** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:45 am

I'd second poster Richard above, my 330 with Hi gains rocks the legs off anything else.
It was the Jam's In The City that made me first look at Rickenbackers, that barking dog/steel against steel tone makes me do a wet one.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:00 am

A wet what, exactly, Charlie?

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:19 am

Also, Brian Medway posted a clip of 'Crossroads" a while back. Sounded very much like Freddy King, who was best known for using a Gold Top Les Paul, so I'd say a Rick is fine for blues

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BUT... 9 times out of 10, Freddie King's tone is terrible (to my ears anyways)

he's the kind of guy you gotta listen to the notes, and not the tone...

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:42 am

Drumbob: best uses in rock music for a Rick 6-string, now that I'm getting one

Which model? You didn't say.

Charley: The BEST use is ALL the time!

Amen.

John B: With the gain cranked up, my Higain-equipped 330 reminds me of am [sic] ES- 335, with just a little more of that great single coil bite.

Exactly!