Lead Guitar Solos on 6 String Ric's

[trosse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WcwX3NzZPg

I did this to show what you can do on a 360.

..but missed all in between... I use mine fopr just about everything. Great sound and great guitar - my 360.

The clean sound btw is instantly the sixties to me who grew up with the music and the brit invasion.

[Bucksstudent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WcwX3NzZPg

I did this to show what you can do on a 360.

..but missed all in between... I use mine fopr just about everything. Great sound and great guitar - my 360.

The clean sound btw is instantly the sixties to me who grew up with the music and the brit invasion.

When I think of sixties music, I think of all the tax attorneys who were once hippies - They own Rics too.

[jingle_jangle]

...and your point is...?

[Bucksstudent]

...and your point is...?

I think you get it. The Ric is a fascinating instrument in many ways, but the fact that it's pigeonholed by the majority of guitarists, means that there's a limited market. Maybe you should encourage otherwise?

As I have said on other boards, there's a reason why George/John stopped using them when the Beatles made their best albums. There's a reason John McGuinn became less prominent in the Byrds on their last few albums - When they were diversifying themselves. What's the ratio of older Ric players versus younger ones?

Maybe you'd see more young kids, who want to be the next Jimi Hendrix or just an innovator, picking up a Ric if they were shown that it was more than just "sixties" music their dad listens to (Not just the Beatles - The sixties had it's fair share of really bad music too, just like any decade). I tried to do that with my Youtube video, but I also pointed out the negatives of the guitar, brand, etc because of my own experiences. Maybe I would not have done such a harsh thing if not provoked. I might even still have my Ric if I was shown a little more kindness from the Ric community (Excluding here - People have been tolerant so far; so far...).

[jingle_jangle]

I think you mean Roger McGuinn, or possibly Jim before that...

Which is a part of my implied point--there's always going to be a generational thing, and to paint any generation with a broad brush, or draw conclusions from narrow samples for anything excepting humorous or ironic purposes, serves nobody well.

I've got no problem in admitting that it's tougher to keep up with a world that moves very quickly, than it is to try to understand the history that brought us where we are, whether it's referring to music or culture in general. Ignorance, taken as a temporary state by open-minded people of any age range willing to open up and learn things that they didn't know.

I have known people who were 20 physically, but had the close-mindedness of a senior citizen...and vice versa, too!

[Bucksstudent]

I think you mean Roger McGuinn, or possibly Jim before that...

Which is a part of my implied point--there's always going to be a generational thing, and to paint any generation with a broad brush, or draw conclusions from narrow samples for anything excepting humorous or ironic purposes, serves nobody well.

My tax attorney comment was a generalization, but a joke in some sense. I don't like the vibe I get from a lot of players - Gibson, Ric, Fender, whatever. For some reason, though, I always get trashed more when making a statement about Ric, and usually by someone who was old enough to go to Woodstock.

As a fan of REM, these days I say more negative things about them than positive, but I still really love them. I still love the sound of a Rickenbacker; especially once played in the twenty-first century.

But to be fair, the 360 didn't have what I was looking for. I find more pleasure in emulating the classic sound on another guitar, but there's only one way to GET the sound - Buy a Ric.

[trosse]

...and your point is...?

I think you get it. The Ric is a fascinating instrument in many ways, but the fact that it's pigeonholed by the majority of guitarists, and even John Hall himself (Look at the AD Campaigns), means that there's a limited market. Maybe you should encourage otherwise?

As I have said on other boards, there's a reason why George/John stopped using them when the Beatles made their best albums. There's a reason John McGuinn became less prominent in the Byrds on their last few albums - When they were diversifying themselves. What's the ratio of older Ric players versus younger ones?

Maybe you'd see more young kids, who want to be the next Jimi Hendrix or just an innovator, picking up a Ric if they were shown that it was more than just "sixties" music their dad listens to (Not just the Beatles - The sixties had it's fair share of really bad music too, just like any decade). I tried to do that with my Youtube video, but I also pointed out the negatives of the guitar, brand, etc because of my own experiences. Maybe I would not have done such a harsh thing if not provoked. I might even still have my Ric if I was shown a little more kindness from the Ric community (Excluding here - People have been tolerant so far; so far...).

Well it's not a crime not to like Rickenbackers. But these high quality build and well sounding guitars have a significant role in the history of popular music - probably mainly because of The Beatles.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about Beatles using other guitars in their later best albums... as... the best album was alwas the new one starting with Please Please Me. There would be no Sgt. Pepper (which lead guitar voices are basicly Stratocasters btw) without Revolver and no Revolver without Help and so on. I did myself swap guitars with speed of changing underwear in the early days - but I've never sold or swapped a guitar because I didn't like it - but because I began liking another brand and type more. I don't think Beatles were any different on that particular point. They were in their early twenties when recording A Hard Days Night mid twenties+ when they recorded Sgt. Pepper. Not many have reached any kind of conclusive state at that age...

I personally don't understand why not many more players use Ricks these days. They are arguably better build than any modern Gibson and Fender guitar - and sounds equally good or better- and I don't understand the idea of getting rid of a Rick because of other peoples reaction to you: "I might even still have my Ric if I was shown a little more kindness from the Ric community". Wonder if John, George, and Paul had the same reaction to something said - or it was because they made an endorsement deal with Fender or Gibson like the the deal Brian Epstein made on behalf of them with VOX amplifiers - never performing live with other brands.

[larsongs]

Thanks for sharing Buckstudent.

Would like to hear more of our Forum Members performing Lead Solos on Ric's & sharing Gear what they use to get their Sound.

Thanks again,

Glenn

[jingle_jangle]

I still love the sound of a Rickenbacker; especially once played in the twenty-first century.

Could you translate this, Patrick? My Woodstock-polluted mind can't quite wrap itself around this turn of phrase...

[8mileshigher]

Here's a list of some of the better known Ric guitarists and bassists.
Take your pick !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ri ... er_players

[paologregorio]

Thanks for sharing Buckstudent.

Would like to hear more of our Forum Members performing Lead Solos on Ric's & sharing Gear what they use to get their Sound.

Thanks again,

Glenn

Here you go:
"The Way that I Was"(video shows a Gretsch, but the song was recorded on a Rick. The solo is on a Rick 381/12, and it doesn't sound like the 60s. .. not that there's anything wrong with one wanting to sound like the 60s):
"

"My Desire":

[brunfox]

Sweden's Per Gessle gets a mention from me. For those that don't know, he's the guy from Roxette

[scotty]

Just spent the last 10 minutes running over BIGBANG on YT and had a ball listening what a top band. Øystein Greni is a top player.
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=393249&hilit=Bigbang

[larsongs]

Just spent the last 10 minutes running over BIGBANG on YT and had a ball listening what a top band. Øystein Greni is a top player.
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=393249&hilit=Bigbang

There are alot of great lead players playing Ric's! Great stuff! keep 'em coming.

Lucky

[fireglo67]

I really like Paul Weller's solo in "Start!"

'Tis great, but unfortunately played on a Gibson SG on the record....

It looks cool on a RICKY in the video though.