Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Hang in there Jake. Without a few mistakes there is no learning.

sloop_john_b wrote:

JakeK wrote:My mom said if another Rickenbacker gets broken, no more guitars for me.

You could always buy your own...

Y'see, John, I should've explained that better: As long as I live with my parents, no more guitars for me if another one breaks.

wittyair wrote:You've got to capitalize that "W" Scotty.

I thought I would keep it small like your postage stamp pictures.My education is lacking somewhat I promise to Cap your W from now on Craig.

JakeK wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote:

JakeK wrote:My mom said if another Rickenbacker gets broken, no more guitars for me.

You could always buy your own...

Y'see, John, I should've explained that better: As long as I live with my parents, no more guitars for me if another one breaks.

Boy, that takes me back. I lived with my grandparents until age 20. I worked my butt off in college and got started collecting guitars and making a little money each time by fixing them up, and making just a tiny bit of profit each time, and also finding killer deals. I was buying Ricks on the internet starting around 1996 or so. There were a LOT less people doing so then. So by the time 1999, 2000 rolled around I had gotten up to nearly 15 or 20 instruments. I started running out of places to hide them. I started running out of stories like "it's a friend's, I'm doing a setup" and stuff like that. It's a shame, I didn't even realize it until years later but I had a successful business of sorts going, and couldn't even talk about it at home, they just wouldn't hear of it! Life's funny. Maybe I should have been nightclubbing and drinking instead???

PS I still keep that PO Box at the airport as a good luck charm and a reminder of very different times in my life.

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please look after this one!
Otherwise I will cry.

Any more Rickenbackers get broken - start buying Fenders.

s4001 wrote:Any more Rickenbackers get broken - start buying Fenders.

...or at least solidbody Ricks!

He could hammer nails with this one all day long, I bet, and still stay in tune

kiramdear wrote:

Yeah Kira, you're gonna have to let me know if you ever get tired of that guitar.

kiramdear wrote:He could hammer nails with this one all day long, I bet, and still stay in tune

Are you gonna leave it as is?
Could be fun to put some crazy colour on it.
Such a cool guitar.

Kenny, you'll be first to know, but don't hold your breath. We're still on the honeymoon.

Rob, I know this guitar is screaming for special treatment. I've been fantasizing for days but so far I can't think of a better theme for it than "Woodstock", or "Early Seventies Arts and Crafts Revival", which it does so well already. Maybe some paisley stickers and peace signs and a macrame strap would suit it.

I don't know why , but when I look at that guitar , Kira , I think / hear Steppenwolf riffs

Oh yeah, I can hear it too!

... Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space ...

... works for me!

Oops got carried away there

Wonder if there's any news on the Jake front?

Tomorrow, the 1997SPC and I head off to present what will count whether I graduate or not. I'm nervous as hell, but all my good friends and teachers tell me there's nothing to worry about.