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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sV2RUm1jgw Paint it Black

Looks like an electric sitar to me...

sloop_john_b wrote:Looks like an electric sitar to me...

He has a sitar sound but it looks like a Ric to me

looks like a Ric to me

Is it a 6 string Ric? Isn't the fellow off to our right playing an electric resonator guitar?

Electric sitar


About 41 seconds in, he talks about a similar instrument. The only Rolling Stone who has played noted playing a real Rickenbacker was Brian Jones.

http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/brianjones.html

woodsgirl wrote:like a Ric to me

I don't see it.

Grey wrote:

woodsgirl wrote:like a Ric to me

I don't see it.

Well, not that weird as there isn't a Rickie in that video - just look at that maple headstock - it's some sort of electric sitar where the black body & white scratch plates make it look slightly like a Rickie.

electric sitar used on Paint it Black...from a distance vaguely reminiscent of a Rick

I remember he played that instrument at the SARS concert in Toronto back in '03...and until I read this thread I'd always thought it was a Rickenbacker bantar or banjoline. I guess it helps to a) be closer than half a mile from the stage, and b) not drink so heavily in the sun.

That's a Danelectro Sitar.

I didn't get a real good look at it on my small screen. Sorry

Thanks for this

Sorry to dig this up, but while googling pictures of Brian Jones on a Rickenbacker, I found this. It's Brian's, but still, it can go on record that Keef has at least HELD a Ric...

Go to about 4:15 on this and you can see it is the electric sitar head. Looks like a RIC PG from far way but is not when you look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6MsdoJ9V3E

It may be time for big John to get his "skunk works" to build ole ronnie a sitar unit of quality and delete the mail order dan! Then everybody could be right!