Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

egosheep wrote:I wonder if they would ever fix that neck angle?

What would be the point, really?

It's pretty much a museum piece from this point forward (literally at the moment...). Unless it got progressively worse to the point of being unplayable and Dhani decided he wanted to use the guitar, I doubt it would ever go into circulation and need to be playable.

My guess is that the neck had already shifted to that point by the 1970s, so it may not move forward much more. Still looks playable, but the bridge would be very low..

I was thinking the same thing. Even though Dhani plays them, it seems like it would be weird to do any major work to it and disturb such a historic instrument.

Then again, look what's in store for the Arden 12-string...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/arts/ ... tar&st=cse

for story on previously mentioned app featuring Harrison's guitars.

Last line of article will not please all here!

wilmingtonian wrote: Last line of article will not please all here!

For all the worship bestowed on the Harrison guitars, Mr. Campbell said his own encounters with the quiet Beatle suggested he was not especially precious about them.

“I was talking to him about how much I loved the guitar sounds on their early records, the Gretsches and the Rickenbackers,” Mr. Campbell recalled. “And he went: ‘Oh, yeah. They were kind of clunky and hard to play. If we had Fenders, we could have been really good.’ ”

Bwahaha!

sloop_john_b wrote:

wilmingtonian wrote: Last line of article will not please all here!

For all the worship bestowed on the Harrison guitars, Mr. Campbell said his own encounters with the quiet Beatle suggested he was not especially precious about them.

“I was talking to him about how much I loved the guitar sounds on their early records, the Gretsches and the Rickenbackers,” Mr. Campbell recalled. “And he went: ‘Oh, yeah. They were kind of clunky and hard to play. If we had Fenders, we could have been really good.’ ”

Bwahaha!

Before you get too chucklefussy, JB, consider that this statement was filtered through at least two levels before being put onto the page of the NYT. Harrison is on record as much preferring his Fender Strat to the Gretsches, at least for sound. That's obviously his personal taste, but I can't imagine some of the earlier Gretsch stuff without that juicy hollowbodied-Gretsch midrange. Additionally, a Country Gent reminds me of a double-cutaway sewer cover, size-wise. "Clunky" would be apt.

I don't think it applies to the "Rickenbacker" part of the statement. A properly-set-up Fender EXII and a Rick XII are equally easy to fret, but the Fender is a bit neck-heavy and has a longer reach than either Gretsch or Rickenbacker. The Rick has, of course, a much narrower fretboard than the Fender.

Additionally, the Fender EXII was not an option in early days, as it didn't come onto the market until the bloom was nearly off the 12-string rose, in very late 1965 (NAMM) with production actually beginning in 1966.

The only other Rick he could have been referring to was John's series of 325s. They are about as "clunky" as a potato chip.

Very nice.

greg_feo wrote:

Thats a nice shot of the back of the guitar! I wonder if someone would colourize it?

You can see the back of the guitar if you buy the app.

jwilli wrote:You can see the back of the guitar if you buy the app.

there are other things to see that the app does "not" have..i can say no more

greg_feo wrote:i can say no more

Before you get too "chucklefussy", JB

good "word" ...

Wish I had an iPad...I thought it was supposed to be a feature on the official GH site

JakeK wrote:Wish I had an iPad...I thought it was supposed to be a feature on the official GH site

It is a feature on the site... You don't need an iPad.

Could you post a link? When I tried searching for it, I just came up to little videos about the app and 4 screenshots... (Watch it have been right under my nose the whole time)