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40 Years Ago Today
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:26 am
by sneakers
It was 40 years ago today that I saw my very first Rickenbacker guitar. It was also the first night I spent wide awake because I couldn't get those Beatle songs out of my head. I've been playing music for 40 years! OMG.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:16 am
by doctorwho
It took me three years after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan's show to get my first guitar, a GE Guitarmate set-up (record player+guitar). Two years later, I got my one-owner 1967 Gibson ES335TDC. It took another 26 years for me to get my first Rickenbacker (a 1992 360/12 MG) and become afflicted with The Rickenbacker Addiction instantly upon touching it. Now, eight years later, I have many!
Here's to the Beatles, the greatest band in the world!
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:38 pm
by bottom4
It is because of this day - 40 yrs ago, I have 4 Ricks to play!
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:27 pm
by rictified
I remember watching them with my parents and my father saying: "they're not playing those guitars"
haha!
I was actually aware of them a little bit before because one of my cousins had "Meet The Beatles"
I thought they were funny looking, I was ten. I loved them, they changed my life.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:38 pm
by shamustwin
At that moment, 50 years of show buisness, out the window. The rules had changed.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:39 pm
by jnbass
Wasn't 40 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play, they've been going in and out of style...
You get the picture
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:45 am
by rob
40 years ago, I wasn't even born yet.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:47 am
by admin
Rob: The fact that you are here today may be an argument for the Rickenbacker gene. I am betting that your parents saw the Ed Sullivan Show.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:39 am
by rob
"That man (Ed Sullivan) can smell talent."
Quote from my dad.
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:09 am
by rictified
That show was great in part because Ed had such a bumbling style, nowadays he wouldn't be able to get a job on a 1000 watt radio station, I miss stuff like that, everything is so polished now.
We're going to have a really great shew, tonight.
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:28 am
by rob
Everything is so polished now?
Every time I start to watch one of those reality shows, they have to bleep out the swearing 10 times in a 4 word sentence! (The Osbournes, for example)
If that's called "Polishing", then I don't know what's good entertainment on TV anymore.
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:20 am
by sneakers
Off topic, but Soupy Sales was way ahead of his time. Anyone remember him? White Fang, Black Tooth, naked women at the door, fantastic!
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:49 am
by 360dave
Sure Joe....Every day after school (I was a Sr.) I remember watching Soupy....he was cool and I really enjoyed the show. At least you could understand what he was saying, unlike the incomprehensible mumblings of the Osbourne shew.
Fortunately, it was cancelled....what a waste of air time.
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:06 am
by rictified
Maybe polished was the wrong choice of words, slick would have been better. I'm talking about hosts of shows, Ed was just a regular guy up there.
I only watched The Osbournes once, thought it was kind of boring. I vaguely remember Soupy Sales, watched him at my cousins house on Long Island. Who was that guy from New York, Uncle Wiggly? He had puppets and was a riot, lots of off color stuff, he was on right before the David Lettermen show when it first came on the air, in 1981 I think, I remember the first David Lettermen show too.