Any videos of Jones playing a Ric live? Preferably where there aren't hundreds of teenage girls screaming?
Brian Jones and Rickenbackers
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Re: Brian Jones and Rickenbackers
Any videos of Jones playing a Ric live? Preferably where there aren't hundreds of teenage girls screaming?
Re: Brian Jones and Rickenbackers
The Ready, Steady, Go! performances where Jones played his 1993 are probably lost, along with great footage of The Who, Gerry Marsden, Pete Quaife and lots of other artists playing Rics when RSG was popular. At least according to my book Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who, only a small handful of the countless RSG performance (not just by The 'Oo) survived, the others were lost sometime after the show ended in December 1966/January 1967.
The guitar makes a cameo in this video, see if you can spot it:
If there is any more surviving video footage of Jones playing his '65 360/12 onstage at that Royal Albert Hall show in fall '66, Mick and Keith are the holders of it.
The guitar makes a cameo in this video, see if you can spot it:
If there is any more surviving video footage of Jones playing his '65 360/12 onstage at that Royal Albert Hall show in fall '66, Mick and Keith are the holders of it.
Re: Brian Jones and Rickenbackers
What was the date Brian got the Ric? I don't think it was a Ric on any of those early songs. They have a very distinct 12 string sound, but it's very loose and grungy, not really what I would associate with a Ric.
Keith said that Mother's Little Helper was some kind of cheap no-name 12 string:
"The strange guitar sound is a 12-string with a slide on it. It's played slightly Oriental-ish. The track just needed something to make it twang. Otherwise, the song was quite vaudeville in a way. I wanted to add some nice bite to it. And it was just one of those things where someone walked in and, Look, it's an electric 12-string. It was some gashed-up job. No name on it. God knows where it came from. Or where it went. But I put it together with a bottleneck. Then we had a riff that tied the whole thing together. And I think we overdubbed onto that. Because I played an acoustic guitar as well."
And Brian was playing Sitar.
Keith said that Mother's Little Helper was some kind of cheap no-name 12 string:
"The strange guitar sound is a 12-string with a slide on it. It's played slightly Oriental-ish. The track just needed something to make it twang. Otherwise, the song was quite vaudeville in a way. I wanted to add some nice bite to it. And it was just one of those things where someone walked in and, Look, it's an electric 12-string. It was some gashed-up job. No name on it. God knows where it came from. Or where it went. But I put it together with a bottleneck. Then we had a riff that tied the whole thing together. And I think we overdubbed onto that. Because I played an acoustic guitar as well."
And Brian was playing Sitar.
Great Ramp In My Opinion.
Re: Brian Jones and Rickenbackers
At the 47 second mark?!JakeK wrote:The Ready, Steady, Go! performances where Jones played his 1993 are probably lost, along with great footage of The Who, Gerry Marsden, Pete Quaife and lots of other artists playing Rics when RSG was popular. At least according to my book Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The Who, only a small handful of the countless RSG performance (not just by The 'Oo) survived, the others were lost sometime after the show ended in December 1966/January 1967.
The guitar makes a cameo in this video, see if you can spot it:
If there is any more surviving video footage of Jones playing his '65 360/12 onstage at that Royal Albert Hall show in fall '66, Mick and Keith are the holders of it.