Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

scoobster28 wrote:I have a question, JimK. Based on your 1500+ posts you surely have been here a while, but in that time you have NEVER played a Rickenbacker guitar? Are you primarily a bass player or something? Or just more a fan of the 600 guitar series?

Until yesterday I have never picked up a Rickenbacker, is true. I've been primarily:
1. an acoustic guitar player (finger picker, mostly, for 40 years, nearly)
2. a banjo player (claw hammer style, for 30 years thereabouts)
3. a fiddler (old-timey, and C&W also for nearly 30 years)
4. a mandolinist (since 1995).
I've been taking drum lessons for about three or four years. I can find my way around on a bass guitar, and know one or two blues grooves. Bass is probably my weakest instrument, along with mandolin. In reality, I've always regarded myself as a singer (was a voice major in college).

So why the sudden interest in Ricks? Because two friends, independently of each other suggested that what I needed was to add an electric guitar to my stable. Seeing that the suggestion was reasonable, I started looking around for something that was a little off the usual, would inspire me, and is an instrument where I felt comfortable applying what I already knew about playing guitar. Bingo! The Rickenbacker 360 12 string guitar.

JimK

We`re inspired by you too Jim!

Aw shucks, Scotty, thanks.

JimK

jimk wrote:Oh Jake....do you promise?!?

And Frank, ....well....ummm....I eh...you see....Oh God, I'm a Rickoholic! I admit it!
After that new FG 360 12 string arrives, I know I'm going to want the 6 string version! And ...and I can see it, then a 4003 bass in FG too........Oh where does it end???

JimK

Knowing you have a problem and admitting it is the first step to.....MORE RICKS!!!

Well Frank, as it would so happen..........I just got the news that this POS bass I just took into the shop isn't really worth all the money to make it play up to spec. So.......that means ...................YES!

The next Rick might be a 4003 bass!

JimK

jimk wrote:Well Frank, as it would so happen..........I just got the news that this POS bass I just took into the shop isn't really worth all the money to make it play up to spec. So.......that means ...................YES!

The next Rick might be a 4003 bass!

JimK

Gee, Jim, a group of us forum members should have been there when you received this news , so we could have done an intervention. Problem is we would have been causing an uproar in the store as we wrestled that 360 from each other screaming "No,it's MINE"

Jim,

Oh my. You've got it bad. Very bad. Pretty soon a little figure will be sitting on your shoulder saying, "Go ahead, buy it. It won't hurt. You deserve it. You've been a good guy." Oh, sorry, I guess that was my story.

Resistance is futile, or so I'm told.

dinorock wrote:Resistance is futile, or so I'm told.

By who? Her?

Jim, I was once in a similar situation. I had a F3nder. I had a Ibby. Then I found the bass that reclaimed my lost youth (yoot!) - a 4001V63.

Then came the first 4003.

Then another.

Next it was one of those things with too many strings - a AFG 330-6. Oh great, now I'm hooked on TP power chords.

After witnessing the recent flood of 4004 CII's they're whispering to me, but alas my funds recently were poured into my fuel oil tank

But I could swing a 650 if the price is right....hmmmm....

So, sorry to say....in my case anyway...

Jeff has it...

...resistance is futile....

...you will be assimilated

Ehh, not bad, but I could probably resist... wow, I MUST be gettin' old...

Now, with Ricks, well...

OK, well since I'm out now, I may as well fess up totally. I've been watching ebay auctions for Rickenbacker lap steels.

I guess I'm hopeless.

JimK

That's really hardcore, Jim. You're way past hopeless now.

there is absolutely nothing hardcore about lap steels! if someone knows how to play it well i think it is about the most pleasing sound out there.

Jim,

At least you've now played one of the guitar you have on order. Wish I could say the same. At least I have one tattooed on my arm that I can look at any time I want.

dinorock wrote:Jim,

Oh my. You've got it bad. Very bad. Pretty soon a little figure will be sitting on your shoulder saying, "Go ahead, buy it. It won't hurt. You deserve it. You've been a good guy." Oh, sorry, I guess that was my story.

Resistance is futile, or so I'm told.

Did I say originally that the guitar was a 360/6 FG? I made a mistake. It's a 370/6 FG. And at 5:00PM Central Time USA, it was still hanging in the shop. I tried real hard to figure out how to snag it before some one else. Even toyed with the idea of putting it on layaway. I DON'T CARE if the fireglo ain't the prettiest....It played so nicesssssssly. It could be our Presssssscioussssss (gollum)

JimK