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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:30 pm
by ozover50
This is so far out of left field....
Did any of the 'Royal Guardsmen' play a Rickenbacker when 'Snoopy vs. The Red Baron' was recorded?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:25 pm
by 360dave
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:15 pm
by chronictown
How about the guy from Jefferson Airplane? Geddit?
Sorry....too much coffee today....
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:01 pm
by ibmindless
Wow - I actually saw the Royal Guardsmen in a live concert - and of course, they played Snoopy & the Red Baron. But I don't recall what guitars they used - sorry.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:12 pm
by ozover50
Never mind, Mark. Was seeing them a good or bad thing?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:28 am
by jingle_jangle
Never mind, Howard.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:44 am
by admin
Time for a hint guys. He was a pilot, played a Rickenbacker and is in Richard Smith's book.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:56 am
by jingle_jangle
Um, Ricky Nelson? He flew in more ways than one, too.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:30 am
by admin
Congratulations Paul.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:30 am
by johnhall
Well, I know it wasn't George Shearing.
But I'm thinking you don't mean famous as a pilot, just famous in any sense. Therefore, it has to be Jim Reeves.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:36 am
by admin
Yes John, famous in any sense.
Again your responses go well beyond the thoughts underlying my initial question and I like your answers better than mine. I had no idea that there were so many musicians who were also pilots.
John Denver would be another but no Rickenbacker connection to my knowledge.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:47 am
by johnhall
How about we take this thread in another direction as well.
As a pilot and general aviation enthusiast, I'd like to know how many of you are also pilots and what you fly.
Through the years I've noted a very large number of pilots among Rickenbacker owners, seemingly a greater number than the general population stat might suggest.
Doctors and lawyers seem to buy Gibsons . . .
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:18 am
by ibmindless
Well... I'm not a pilot, but I do tell them where to go. I'm an air traffic control supervisor and I've been talking to airplanes for over 25 years, many of which were spent at SNA (John Wayne / Santa Ana Airport).
Do you need a tour of SoCal Approach, John?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:37 am
by johnhall
Wow, then no doubt I've already spoken to you many times at either SNA or Coast/SoCal Approach! More often than not I fly off the roof of the Centreport/Helistream/Tridair building.
Indeed, I'd love to visit. In the late 80' I visited the old Tracon at El Toro since I have an appreciation of antiques but it'd be great to see the new place!
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:33 am
by jaybic
My father was a pilot. He flew his little Piper Cherokee off of a landing strip he had on our farm. He'd occasionally do flying for various ag companies that wanted to take over head photos of fields or various plots. He had a small acrylic window installed on the bottom of the floor so the cameramen could just look down instead of banking the plane and shooting out the side window.