What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:56 am
Does anyone know the model Pete Townshend is playing in these photos? It looks kind of cool.
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Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:57 am
It is not a Rick at all - it's a Grimshaw.
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:45 pm
I thought something was screwy. I guess I got fooled by the faux toasters & what looks like a Rick TRC although I couldn't make out the name clearly. Thanks for the info!
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:19 pm
No, your eyes are fine!Johnny_Voodoo wrote:I thought something was screwy. I guess I got fooled by the faux toasters & what looks like a Rick TRC although I couldn't make out the name clearly. Thanks for the info!
Pete installed a set of pickups and TRC from one of his smashed RM1998's, I presume.
Why, you ask?
According to Pete:
“I bought the guitar at Ivor Maraints, I’d always wanted one (was it because Joe Brown played one?). At the time I was used to Rick pickups so when I ran out of Rickenbackers one day I rigged the Grimshaw with the pickups and added the headstock blazer as deception. However, when people asked me what model of Rick it was, I told them it was a Grimshaw. It played beautifully.”
Pretty cool!
Apparently, these guitars are pretty rare, though I remember Kenny Howes saying he played one in London awhile back.
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:22 pm
I think the Rick TRC works well, aesthetically, with the Grimshaw headstock shape, but then, I seem to be the only one here who actually likes the headstock shape of the El Toro, too! 
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:29 pm
I agree Jeffrey.
The Grimshaw is a pretty strange looking guitar, but it's kind of Rickenbackish, in a bizzaro-world sorta way (like the reverse slash soundhole). It seems pretty Rossmeisl-esque.
The Grimshaw is a pretty strange looking guitar, but it's kind of Rickenbackish, in a bizzaro-world sorta way (like the reverse slash soundhole). It seems pretty Rossmeisl-esque.
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 2:56 pm
I just ran across a photo I took of said guitar in '08; it was a different model than the Townshend guitar, more like a Super 400. Still cool, and a decent price, if I remember right.collin wrote:Apparently, these guitars are pretty rare, though I remember Kenny Howes saying he played one in London awhile back.
Re: What Rick model is this?
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:06 pm
Pete makes it sound like running out of clean clothes. Oh no, I just ran out of Rickenbackers.collin wrote: According to Pete:
“I bought the guitar at Ivor Maraints, I’d always wanted one (was it because Joe Brown played one?). At the time I was used to Rick pickups so when I ran out of Rickenbackers one day I rigged the Grimshaw with the pickups and added the headstock blazer as deception. However, when people asked me what model of Rick it was, I told them it was a Grimshaw. It played beautifully.”