Tom Petty's Rickenbacker Comments

"I love them as works of art and I love the sound they make. Mike Campbell and myself have never really gotten over this disease. I mean, we still scour "The Recycler" to find vintage guitars. It's...it's one of my...I guess it's almost a vice, now, because...we just love them."

"I'm essentially a rhythm player, and you can do that with a Rickenbacker. It's not really a lead instrument, it's more of a rhythm guitarist's kind of thing."