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     Geoffrey Lawton (Golfo) Intermediate Member Username: Golfo Post Number: 64 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 216.20.117.51 |
saw tom petty and the heartbreakers last weekend at the tweeter center in mansfield, ma. great - great - great show!!! black crowes opened up (great set - loud, bluesy, ballsy). but petty, campbell, and thurston (petty's multiinstrumentalist) all have a penchant for ricks. petty played several - a fireglo with the f-hole (rose morris?), a mapleglo 360, a 425 (1 pup), and his signature 12 string 660. petty also played a very cool white teardrop guitar (vox perhaps), several teles, strats, a gib firebird, and several acoustics, including his signature model martin. campbell played several also - a mapleglo 12 string (i believe) and a fireglo 330 or 360. he also had white sg with black pguard (one pup - maybe a p90), another sg, several lps and a gretsch (sp?), and an electric sitar (jerry jones?). the most interesting item to me, however, was a what appeared to be a rick mando. it looked exactly like a miniature 330 in apple green - curved sound holes, horns, headstock - the whole thing. but it was an 8-string and very small-scaled. thurston usually played a strat but picked up a fireglo 330 at the end of the show. anyway -- a night of great music and great great guitar playing. regards golfo | ||
| Peter McCormack (Admin) Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 3929 Registered: 04-2003 Posted From: 142.166.105.230 |
What a showcase of and for Rickenbacker guitars Geoffrey. Thanks for this detailed review of who played what. What fun it would be to be with this group taking a tour of the Rickenbacker factory. | ||
| Geoffrey Lawton (Golfo) Intermediate Member Username: Golfo Post Number: 65 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 24.61.21.170 |
peter forgot to mention... campbell also played a great ol' tele - probably a vintage 50s model - it sure looked like a possibility from what i could see. butterscotchy finish with a black pguard. WORN fingerboard!! great funky twang. he also pulled out strat here and there. the most interesting instrument he played i can only try to describe because i'm not sure what it was. some kind of electrified string instrument. i think it had 10 - but perhaps 12 - strings. it was roundish - but not perfectly round. it had a reddish body and a large circular pguard. can't remember the song he used it for (the sitar was used for 'don't come around here no more'). my buddy and i kept looking at each other, saying, "what the hell is that thing campbell's playing?" if you're a gear freak, tp is a band to go see. john fogerty and steve stills are 2 others who really like to flash their goods (i'm just talking instruments here, folks). golfo | ||
| Steve Lasko (Janglebox) Member Username: Janglebox Post Number: 57 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.48.244.51 |
Golfo: any chance it was one of these? A better pic can be found here: http://www.gruhn.com/features/voxmg/voxmg.html  |
