Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I was just watching an old VHS of 'YesYears'....this may have been brought up before but they were showing an acoustic version of Long Distance Runaround, probably a show from the early 70's....anyway, Chris is playing a Rick acoustic!!! Didn't see that before.

That acoustic is pretty interesting, too. It has a magnetic pickup hiding under the end of the fingerboard. It's actually inside the guitar, under the wood.

It's my understanding that Steve Howe has this guitar today.

I saw Chris play that in Pittsburgh!

I think the show is from Queenspark 1975, they did that and some other tune acoustically with Chris playing the Rickenbacker Acoustic guitar.

Somebody get a screen shot.

Is it a dreadnaught?

Yeah, this is from May 10, 1975 at QPR in London. I love that acoustic version of Long Distance Runaround - very wistful.

This cann't be it???

Is it????

No, it's a 6 string acoustic from what I can tell. The video is really blurry and I just saw the outline of the TRC to see that it was a Rick. I'll take a digital pic of it. I'll need the assistance from someone here to resize it to fit the forum. Anyone??

Send it to me. [email protected]

Looks like a Martin headstock from that shot. Pretty cool though.

From Scott:

Sorry guys, it's the best shot I could get on my screen...thanks to John for resizing the pic.

Scott, thanks for the pic. It clearly shows a rare Rickenbacker acoustic.

It looks like the tailpiece on it is pretty big.

That's cool..I believe it's the only Rickenbacker flat-top I've ever seen from the 70's....