40 Years Ago Today

sneakers · Post by **sneakers** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:26 am

It was 40 years ago today that I saw my very first Rickenbacker guitar. It was also the first night I spent wide awake because I couldn't get those Beatle songs out of my head. I've been playing music for 40 years! OMG.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:16 am

It took me three years after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan's show to get my first guitar, a GE Guitarmate set-up (record player+guitar). Two years later, I got my one-owner 1967 Gibson ES335TDC. It took another 26 years for me to get my first Rickenbacker (a 1992 360/12 MG) and become afflicted with The Rickenbacker Addiction instantly upon touching it. Now, eight years later, I have many!

Here's to the Beatles, the greatest band in the world!

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:38 pm

It is because of this day - 40 yrs ago, I have 4 Ricks to play!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:27 pm

I remember watching them with my parents and my father saying: "they're not playing those guitars"
haha!
I was actually aware of them a little bit before because one of my cousins had "Meet The Beatles"
I thought they were funny looking, I was ten. I loved them, they changed my life.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:38 pm

At that moment, 50 years of show buisness, out the window. The rules had changed.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:39 pm

Wasn't 40 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play, they've been going in and out of style...

You get the picture

rob · Post by **rob** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:45 am

40 years ago, I wasn't even born yet.

admin · Post by **admin** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:47 am

Rob: The fact that you are here today may be an argument for the Rickenbacker gene. I am betting that your parents saw the Ed Sullivan Show.

rob · Post by **rob** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:39 am

"That man (Ed Sullivan) can smell talent."
Quote from my dad.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:09 am

That show was great in part because Ed had such a bumbling style, nowadays he wouldn't be able to get a job on a 1000 watt radio station, I miss stuff like that, everything is so polished now.
We're going to have a really great shew, tonight.

rob · Post by **rob** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:28 am

Everything is so polished now?

Every time I start to watch one of those reality shows, they have to bleep out the swearing 10 times in a 4 word sentence! (The Osbournes, for example)

If that's called "Polishing", then I don't know what's good entertainment on TV anymore.

sneakers · Post by **sneakers** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:20 am

Off topic, but Soupy Sales was way ahead of his time. Anyone remember him? White Fang, Black Tooth, naked women at the door, fantastic!

360dave · Post by **360dave** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:49 am

Sure Joe....Every day after school (I was a Sr.) I remember watching Soupy....he was cool and I really enjoyed the show. At least you could understand what he was saying, unlike the incomprehensible mumblings of the Osbourne shew.
Fortunately, it was cancelled....what a waste of air time.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:06 am

Maybe polished was the wrong choice of words, slick would have been better. I'm talking about hosts of shows, Ed was just a regular guy up there.
I only watched The Osbournes once, thought it was kind of boring. I vaguely remember Soupy Sales, watched him at my cousins house on Long Island. Who was that guy from New York, Uncle Wiggly? He had puppets and was a riot, lots of off color stuff, he was on right before the David Lettermen show when it first came on the air, in 1981 I think, I remember the first David Lettermen show too.