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I don't think that "Ticket to Ride" was the last song George used the 360/12OS on. I was listening to It's Only Love, and I swear I heard some toaster jangle in there. Anyone think I'm hearing things?

I have no idea, but Tom Petty is great. Full Moon Fever is one of my alltime favorite albums.

"Full Moon Fever is the "solo" debut album by Tom Petty, though it actually features many of the Heartbreakers, along with members of the Traveling Wilburys. Due to this, the album is often referred to as Vol. 2 of the Wilburys."

I don't really hear a Rick 12 in there. To me it sounds like an acoustic 12 string (probably the Framus). I can get the same sound either using my Epi Hummingbird 12 or recording 2 acoustics, one playing the chords high up on the neck and then also down by the nut (which makes it sound like an acoustic 12). I believe the electric doing the riff is just one of their Sonic Blue Strats with a heavy-handed vibrato. IMO, anyway.

There's also some speculation that he used the Rick 360/12 in "Here, There & Everywhere", during the 2 little refrains where he sings "I want her everywhere, and if she's beside me....", and then at the end of the song. IMO, again, that's also a Strat double-tracked -- or possibly using their ADT method to make it sound doubled.

The only part I hear that *could* be the 360/12 are the guitar "stabs" during the verses - there's a certain Rick 12-esque quality to the tone that I can't quite describe, but is certainly there and therefore could make it the 360/12, but it could just as easily be a Gretsch.

As for that "vibrato" part, such a sound simply can't be done with "heavy-handed" vibrato use. It's got to be studio trickery.

hi,
to me there are 2 acoustic guitars (the 6-string and the twelve-string) (on the left channel of the
stereo mix) and 2 electric (the Strats) one playing the chords (probably John) and George on the other Stratocaster (right channel).
The signature lick are both guitars, one playing only one note, both with vibrato,
probably electronically.

So: the chord playing electric: to me the Stratocaster, not the Rickenbacker

Wolfgang

nyrkickazz1 wrote:The only part I hear that *could* be the 360/12 are the guitar "stabs" during the verses - there's a certain Rick 12-esque quality to the tone that I can't quite describe, but is certainly there and therefore could make it the 360/12, but it could just as easily be a Gretsch.

As for that "vibrato" part, such a sound simply can't be done with "heavy-handed" vibrato use. It's got to be studio trickery.

Actually doesn't sound like vibrato to me, sounds like the tremolo on an amp.

of course it may be too fast for me to hear the modulation.

I do hear single-coil bite in that song. Possibly it IS the Strats?

Another thing that's got me wondering. It's been said somewhere George first used his Strat on "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". I think it is his Strat. What do you guys think?

TomPettyandHeartbreakersFan wrote:I do hear single-coil bite in that song. Possibly it IS the Strats?

Another thing that's got me wondering. It's been said somewhere George first used his Strat on "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". I think it is his Strat. What do you guys think?

I'd definitely agree with this. It's a single coil tone on "You're Gonna Lose..." and it's too biting and not "woody" enough to be the Hi-Lo Trons on the Tennesseean. And this is despite the fact that he mimes to this song with his Country Gent which made a surprise appearance in Help!.

Thought I'd revive this with another question:

Is there slide guitar on "Run for Your Life"? There's no doubt it's being played on a Strat, if there is, and it's even been said that it's John playing slide. It COULD be George, too. Whoever it was, they must have been doing a lot of talking with Brian Jones of the Stones...