Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I thought this would be a photo that might generate some conversation.

John looks as though he's thinking,"I gotta get me one of these bloody things fo'meself"....

Looking at the strap, Id guess it was a pose purely for the photographer and the 330 was the first guitar at hand

I wonder how this instrument felt for John after playing his short-scale Rickenbackers for so long.

If the 'legend' holds true, John WAS acutally the first Beatle to try the 1963 360/12, and thought George may make good use of it...so they went back to The Plaza Hotel...The rest, as they say, is history.........

It's interesting to think how different all of our personal Ric model preferences would be if John and George had made other choices... (or the other usual supects, for that matter)

Great pic!

Special thanks goes out to Mark Vaquer for obtaining the original print of this photo and sending it along for all of us to share. Thanks Mark.

Corey: Right you are. Our preferences for guitars in general and Rickenbackers in particular are closely connected to our favourite artists. I suspect our preferences for certain chord patterns is also closely associated with our favourite performers.

Yeah Pete, I play in a praise and worship group and my friends will say "Hey, you played that progression like the Beatles" or "do that Creedence or Keaggy thing here". It's like nature or nurture---you play the way you were taught to play. Sometimes we all don't try to sound like that, it just comes out that way. However, sometimes I do come in with something that I feel would sound great in a certain place within a song, and it might be taken liberally from a solo within my CD collection.

Peter: That's a very good point. I know I can trace much of my chord progression habits to Mr. Peter Buck (and in turn, see how he was influenced first hand by George Harrison, Roger McGuinn and Neil Young).

"You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been."