Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Hey fellow rick fans!!! I am 16 now and I am also a proud owner of a 4003 bass that I got when I was 15...I was just wondering... are there any other Rick users who are...like...around my age? Because a lot of my friends have the cheapy fenders (...ahem...squiers..) or some off-brand like the peavey raptor which is just a Strat copy, alot of em' have never even heard of a Rickenbacker...and I just tell them that they don't know what a real guitar is...

It's good to hear there are young people with that elusive (and rapidly vanishing) quality known as TASTE! I guess I was 23 when I got my first Ric, a 360V64, but that was 9 years ago, so I don't qualify as young anymore. My girlfriend is young if that counts for anything.

There is a 16 year-old girl who posts at Voxtalks who proudly plays her Ric 325.

Keep playing Patrick!

Cheers, Noel

Rock On!

I had wanted a rick since I was 13. . . .just got one . . . 18 years later. Time wasted.

You are a lucky kid - That's what you are.

Have some fun - and thanks for playing bass -
Us guitar player guys are a dime a dozen.

I always knew that Rickenbackers were somewhat different, in a good way of course, since I was 13. It wasn't untill I was 24 when I bought my first.

I bought my first three years ago, when I was 18. I worked harder for that guitar than I ever thought I could.

I got my first 4001 when I was 16.
I still have it at 34 along with 2 other Ricks.
What I remember most about having one that young is that I would jam with guitar players who had Kramer/Ibanez/Hondo type instruments & they would flip out over a "real" & beautiful instrument like a Rick bass.

Come to think of it, that reaction hasn't changed much as I've gotten older!!

Congrats on your 4003 Patrick & welcome to the club. It's nice to know that some of todays youth has taste in instruments...I was getting worried for awhile!

I got my first ric when I was 19 ... been playing rics ever since ... uh ... that first ric was a 1968 purchased in 1973 for $150 ...

Hey Pat.
I bought a '79 370 in March while I was 17, but I'm now 18. So yeah, I guess I'm pretty young too.

God does it ever take time to be able to afford these kind of things at minimum wage...

My first Rickenbacker was my '67 4005WB that I got when I was 17; 31 years later I still have it! I'm glad you know what real quality is, not too many your age do these days. Enjoy it, and someday I hope you can get a vintage one.

My daughter has a good friend who really wants a RIC guitar (he's 16); I was curious why, as I don't hear many RIC sounds in my daughter's music, he just thinks they're "cool". I gave him the catalog that came with my 330/12, hopefully he'll be joining us soon. Oh, yeah, his current guitar is a Schechter with Truckstop Tammies on it, so I'm very optimistic.

The mudflap tammy has a noble history with ricks, as any fan of Peter Buck should know!

Jeffrey Scott - How did you end up with a 4005 at age 17, and did you have any clue that it would become the highly sought after collectible it is today??

Glad you should ask! When I was 15 I got a '72 Jazz Bass and then I met another High School kid who had a 4001, plus I had recently got turned on to Yes, and in April '72 I saw Genesis on their first US tour, as an opening act for It's A Beautiful Day. This is where I saw my first Rickenbacker in concert, Rutherford's 4001 as they opened the show with Watcher Of The Skies, and also his custom made 4080/12. Well all this was just too much for me and I had to get a Rickenbacker for myself. I found out about a bass player in a local band called Snafu who wanted to sell a Rick, so I talked to him and he was interested in getting a Fender. Cool! We got together and when I saw the 4005WB I was disappointed as I didn't know what this was and it was not the 4001 I lusted after. After playing it for a while I decided to get it anyway and we just straight swapped instruments. Now mind you, I paid $175.00 for the Jazz Bass so in effect that is what I paid for a '67 4005WB! I never had a clue that I had a gold mine in hand. I do like playing out with it and it has been out recently on some gigs.

Here is Mike Rutherford's 4080/12:

I've wanted a Rick since I was 16 or so. I first really liked the unique style (the lines and strange wave-like points) - very different from the usual "strat" or "les paul", but once I heard how they sounded, and what kinds of bands had used them (Beatles, Who, Byrds...) I was obsessed. I'm 19 now, quickly approaching 20.