One of the Original Rickenfakers
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:39 am
Shame on Pete...
OK, I don't get it.
JimK
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:35 am
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:06 pm
Pete is playing a guitar that is obviously not a Rickenbacker but has a Rickenbacker nameplate affixed to its headstock and three Rickenbacker pickups.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:14 pm
It's actually a Grimshaw guitar, with a Rick TRC.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:45 pm
It was by most accounts a wicked good guitar. It got lost or stolen or smashed at some point. But what makes me wonder is: why did he bother to put a Rick TRC on it?
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:50 pm
The slant of the pickups is certainly unique.
Here is a neat little link to Pete's Grimshaw.
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equip-grimshaw.htm
Here is a neat little link to Pete's Grimshaw.
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equip-grimshaw.htm
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:12 pm
Mark wrote:
"It got lost or stolen or smashed at some point."
Most likely smashed.
"It got lost or stolen or smashed at some point."
Most likely smashed.
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:44 pm
"Smashed, lost, stolen, fell over, burned down and then sank in the swamp."
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:49 am
But the THIRD one stayed up!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:44 pm
Pete is playing a guitar that is obviously not a Rickenbacker but has a Rickenbacker nameplate affixed to its headstock and three Rickenbacker pickups.
Well I thought something looked rather odd about the sound hole in the upper bout.
JimK
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:00 pm
Great pic of the one and only Rickshaw guitar.
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:48 pm
I wonder if JH has a story? I'm pretty sure (well. not really) there must be one, as that is well before the PT!
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:27 pm
Photos of this guitar used to completely confuse me. In color, it even looks like MG!!!
Re: One of the Original Rickenfakers
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:29 pm
Big deal, it's not that confusing. I think I read somewhere that his guitar tech would collect the leftover parts from his smashed guitars. The pickups were used, and then the nameplate, because someone thought it would look cool or simply to cover the truss rod.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:48 pm
Strats have slanted pickups.buzfluhart wrote:The slant of the pickups is certainly unique.