The Rickenbacker International Corporation (RIC) grew out of the first company founded for the sole purpose of creating and manufacturing fully electric musical instruments and amplifiers-the Los Angeles-based Electro String Instrument Corporation. Founded in 1931 by Adolph Rickenbacker and George D. Beauchamp, this pioneering firm produced "Rickenbacker Electro Instruments", the first modern electric guitars. RIC's history now spans 77 years in business on the leading edge of music trends that have changed popular culture forever. www.akorn.tv/primer
Johnny Marr describes his guitar playing with The Smiths. "I wanted to sound like an entire record when I played." He plays his Rickenbacker. "Yeah, it's all kinda of ringy and melodic, and.... There's a lot of emotion in there, I think. So I ...I play that way cause that's how I feel." This is a new condensed edit of a "blocked" vid taken from part three of "The Story Of The Guitar." smithsonguitar.blogspot.com
www.frettedamericana.com This forty-one year old thinline maple bodied guitar with rounded horns weighs just 7.30 lbs. Beautiful Fireglo finish with a single "cat's-eye" soundhole. Three-piece maple and walnut neck with a scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches. Rosewood fretboard with 21 original frets and triangular crushed pearl position markers. Three "toaster" pickups with outputs of 3.81k, 3.80k, and 12.10k (that's how Rickenbacker three-pickup models measure). Six-saddle bridge and vibrato tailpiece. An exceptionally fine example, housed in its original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case.
www.premierguitar.com PG's Charles Saufley is On Location in Santa Ana, California, where he visits the Rickenbacker Guitars factory and headquarters. In this segment, Rickenbacker's CEO John Hall walks us through the process of building a Model 330 guitar and Model 4003 bass at their US Factory. For more Factory Tours or to watch one of Premier Guitar's 1500 other videos online, be sure to visit www.premierguitar.com
This 15-inch-wide thin-body (2 inches deep) full-sizeguitar weighs just 6.50 lbs. and has a nice medium-to-thick profile neck with a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Unbound hollow maple body with a "cat's-eye" or slash soundhole, three-piece maple/walnut/maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and triangular pearl position markers. Three-piece (maple/walnut/maple) with gold opaque plastic logo plate with black lettering. Individual 'single-line' Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons (all stamped "D-169400 / Patent No." on the underside). Two Rickenbacker chrome bar "toaster" pickups with chrome covers and outputs of 7.40k and 7.69k. Two-piece split-level gold lucite pickguard with four screws. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch, all on lower level of pickguard. Rickenbacker TV style black plastic knobs with gold diamond inlays on top. The potentiometers are stamped "137 848" (CTS December 1958). Rickenbacker bridge and Rickenbacker tailpiece. The serial number "2T 201" (December 1958) is stamped onto the jack plate. This beautiful guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition, with only a few tiny insignificant surface marks and a minuscule amount of belt buckle scarring on the back of the guitar. Housed in its original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case with black leather ends and red plush lining (8.50).
I haven't seen a lot of demos of this guitar on them Youtubes, so I thought I'd go ahead and demo mine. Setup: Rickenbacker 620 in Midnight Blue Fender Blues DeVille 2x12 Buddy Guy Signature Crybaby Way Huge: Fat Sandwich Harmonic Saturator
