Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Does anyone know if any of the players in either of these seminal groups played a Ric? If so, whom and what model?

Thanks

For a while Stills was playing a 370-12RG , I believe, with Crosby and Nash...they'd do Turn Turn Turn in their live sets...

Ive seen pics of Richie Furay with what looks like a Gibson 335-12...but Ive never seen a pic or heard of anyone in Poco or the Buffalo Springfield using a Ric regularly...unless Bruce Palmer, Randy Meisner or Tim Schmidt used one on bass...The BS were mostly Gibson-Gretsch, and Poco were Gibson-Fender...

The Buffalo Springfield did apparently use gear...amps etc, loaned by the Byrds in the early days...

A friend of mine is a big Neil Young fan, and I had a book of his a few years ago about Neil[unfortunately I can't recall the name of it...]
and there was a pic of Neil, pre Springfield, in some early band up in Canada, where he was playing, I believe, a double bound 360.

Oh, you are correct about Furay in Springfield; he had a black ES 335-12.

Didn't Bruce Palmer pass away last week?

I think Timothy B. Schmidt used one with the Eagles. Remember the Hotel California video?

Ken, that was Randy Meisner playing a 4001 in that video.

I thought he was gone by then, thanks for the correction.

Yes...Bruce Palmer passed away last week

It was The Dillards' abandoned electric instruments and equipment - not The Byrds' - that the group rehearsed with in the early days, according to John Einarson's book "There's Something Happening Here".

Although Richie inherited a Telecaster from the Dillards, I seem to remember reading that his first electric 12 was a Rickenbacker 360/12, which was then stolen, leading to his acquisition of the Gibson ES-335TD-12. There are no obvious Rickenbacker sounds on the Box Set, however.

Thanks everyone. By the way, I have been looking for a copy of Einerson's book. If anyone has a copy they would care to sell, I am in the market.

Although it doesn't cover guitars, this site shows the "Byrds Family Tree":

http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/koa7/byrdstree.htm

That "tree" was the inside artwork for a double album of Byrds hits... have the vinyl myself.

Think it is a great resource...

Would like to see same for a few other groups but if you read this tree, you get a pretty definitive idea of how California music became so interelated.