"Rickenbacker: Pioneers of the Electric Guitar" with author Martin Kelly
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I've used Martin Kelly's book, "Fender, The Golden Age" since I began making Short History videos. I've always been dazzled by the inside stories and amazing photos of rare guitars in that book. Who was this guy and what sorts of connections led to this book.
Fast forward to this year and Martin's given Rickenbacker the "Kelly treatment" in his new book. Through new connections in the UK I've been able to arrange to have Martin on the show. His knowledge is deep and his delivery is entertaining. The stories this guy knows...So join us and bring your questions about the things you've always wanted to know about Rickenbacker.
See you on the stream,
Keith
Ive played a Ric 350 since 1989. I also had a Ric 360v64 12 string, that I was lucky enough to have Roger McGuinn sign.👍
I play my 360-12FG into a Vox AC15-TBX. I modded mine with Gemini Toaster pickups, TI flat wound strings & a Janglebox OB. The ‘R’ tailpiece was replaced with a Winfield Harp after it disintegrated. My 330-6 I installed a Mastery bridge on. They both play & sound awesome!
The hardback version is on my Xmas list. Along with continued desires for a 60s spec 12-string. ❤
Jangle pop should renamed Rickenbacore
Didn't get to listen to this till today. I DO have a Rick in my guitar arsenal! I have a 1979 Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar and I love it.
I’m on my 3rd 4001 Mplglow a77 been playing them since early 70,s. Unique guitars and basses. Expensive but hey save yr gig money. Cheers.🇬🇧🏴
Great Show KEITH, He Martin is Well Worth having on again. To little love is given to Rickenbacker. The song Jason does is so very close to the composition by David and the Giants, "When I close my Eyes" give it a listen here on youtu.
I bought my first Rick in 1981 (320), my first 12 in 1982 (360/12BWB) and over the years have followed the FC Hall/John Hall transfer, the LONG WAIT TIMES😆……and the Nick Thiel/Voxtalks fiasco. Great guitars, great memories and a great show today.
Clean Rickenbacker tones are my all-time favourite guitar sounds
I drove from Houston to Nashville this summer to purchase a mint, used 2021 Jetglo 330. I added a Janglebox JBX and it’s my favorite guitar in 50 years of playing.
Just thinking a bit more about the comment regarding Marty Wilson Piper (The Church). The Church had an amazing two guitar wall-of-sound in the first half of the 80s. Fantastic band during that period. Piper was great as was Peter Koppes (typically Strat). Another great Sydney band at the time was Midnight Oil. Also wall of sound guitars. Martin Rotsey played a number of Rickenbackers which enhanced Midnight Oil’s sound. Both bands were great in smallish venues in Sydney.
I once played an old Rickenbacker lap steel with the horseshoe pickup.
I’m not much of a lap steel player, but it was fun, and sounded great
If I could have afforded it, it would have gone home with me.
Played a few of their guitars, and basses, but don’t see them in person often.
But I liked them, and the 12 strings are cool.
So cool video
One of these days I will own a custom doubleneck. The top neck will be a Danelectro bass vi, and the bottom neck will be a Ricky 12.
I love it this show. I am small time big on Rics, LOL.
I play Metal but on some tunes I do part of a tune with flat pick thing. I have a Fender Duo Sonic with a 55 Tele PU at the bridge for the Metal things and can switch to the neck PU that is a Rickenbaker 66 for the chorus,. I even use a DigiTech Mosaic pedal that does a faux 12 string thing. I also use the Ananashead Byrd Song treble booster a dead on part for part clone of a Vox V806 treble booster that both Roger McGuinn and Tom Petty used with their Rics.
Purchasing my 330/6 fireglo now.
Purchased my 360/12 jetglo last Jan
Excellent. A Tom Petty solid body, light brown, fabulously light in weight, 76/77 Wellington NZ, perhaps a gift from Tom to a Girl, found its way to my retail music shop, and I bought it. Of course it was stupid to sell, although I found the neck very slim, a little to thin for my playing, width that is-sold it to a very successful NZ Rock and Roll Band, Pop Mechanix. Now you have shown me in no uncertain terms, why I should have kept that piece. Never seen another of course....
I bought my first Rickenbacker, used in 1988. It's a 1968 model 365. The previous owner(s) were abusive to it, and it didn't even have a case. My sister refinished it, and I still have it to this day. The most slender neck I've ever felt. Beautiful. 😊
I’ve got a 74 4001 fretless in mapleglow, a 77 4001 in burgundyglow and a 80 4003 in azureglow.
⚓️ Thanks Martin 🇬🇧 Keith 🎶
Thank you Keith
Great interview! Martin is a lovely man. Looking forward to his Vox guitar book!
Years ago I built myself a "Coodercaster", (which could also be called a Rossmeisslcaster - ain't that a mouthful?) which consisted of a Thinline Tele (which Roger Rossmeissl designed for Fender) that sported a 50s Rickenbacker Horseshoe Pickup in the bridge, a Teisco Goldfoil at the neck; also a Bigsby, and a 27" Fender Baritone Tele neck. I have always referred to it as my 'tribute to Roger Rossmeissl' Coodercaster, and have been kind of sad at how few guys knew who the hell I was talking about.
Interestingly, the most recent Coodercaster iteration which I have seen Ry Cooder himself playing has a Rickenbacker Horseshoe pickup, and he has mentioned in interviews that it was originally his first choice when he built his first Coodercaster in the 70s, but his buddy David Lindley supplied him with a Valco lapsteel pup as well as the Teisco, and so that's what he ended up using. It intrigues me when Martin Kelly says that Ric "stuck with the Horseshoe for too long"; and I suppose I understand why he says this, as they are rather archaic and cumbersome, but those damn pickups sound so amazing on a Tele (don't forget that the core design of the Tele is based upon a Fender lapsteel pickup in the bridge!) and the coincidental aspect of the Horseshoe being a pickup that I'm sure Mr. Rossmeissl was very familiar with, sounding so good mounted into a Thinline Tele body, which he designed; it's just a match made in heaven. I wonder what Roger thought of the famed Rickenbacker Horseshoe pickup, as it was designed by Beauchamp long before his tenure at Ric? I'm not all that familiar with the models, but wasn't it the mid 50s Ric Combo models that had a Horseshoe at the bridge and a Toaster at the neck? I've never had my hands on a Ric Combo, but I bet they sounded amazing, and I'd guess very similar to my "Rossmeisslcaster"...
I’m the very happy owner of a 1971 360-6 with 24 frets & transitional hi-gain pickups. It sounds amazing across many ‘styles’, including rock, country, jazz comping. The transitional pickups are closer to toasters and clearer than the final hi-gain pickups. There are a lot of 70s basses, some 330s, but not too many 70s 360s come up for sale. No production numbers, so hard to know if people hold onto them or just very low production numbers. Thanks for an interesting interview.
Great Interview!
In 1980 I was offered a Rick 12 string electric for next to nothing but I wasnt working yet so unfortunately had to decline. I was in high school (Im 60 now). Love the awsome sound they produce.
Yes, I have 10! I met the authors Martin and Paul at Shapero's Rare Books in Match 2022 - what an amazing Saturday (along with meeting John C. Hall)
Loved the LIVE 🤘🏼
Owned 9. 481, 2 4003’s, 650a, 360wb, 330, 360 12, 620. Favorite was 650a wore the frets down. Too many sticky finishes and sold all. Beautiful sound and playing guitars.
Very cool show. I'm a 360/6 owner
Tom Petty based his career on the Byrds, Beatles & Rickenbacker. Roger McGuinn, Carl Wilson Beach Boys. Top of the Pops Smithereenes.
How they mentioned Susanna Hoffs and NOT Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, much less the album art for Damn The Torpedoes is beyond me.
I am gutted to hear that Alan Rogan passed. In 2002 I was working for JBL when we sponsored The Who's US Tour and was European contact for the band. To cut a long story short, PT ended up giiving me an EC strat modified with a Fischmann power bridge, modified by Alan. He met me in Paris to give it to me and we had lunch together. A lovely lad with many, many stories to tell. Oh man, rest in peace Alan, and thank you Pete.
And I got to see the last time John Entwistle played with the band - it was his half-rig and it was like rolling thunder!
Oh, and I did the Rick thing. The guitar I had always wanted from the age of 14 when I first saw The Jam live in '79 and the world changed. Finally got a 330 Jetglo in 2002 and man, it was pretty! All black and white in its blue-lined hardcase. Heartachingly pretty.
But we didn't bond - the guitar you want isn't always the guitar that wants you. Sold it in 2010 to the guitarist in the french band Penelope. It needed to be played.
I've spoken to Tony Bacon a few times, too. He's a cool guy!
And I've casually been talking to Jim McGuinn for a little over twenty years now.
But, yeah I've read a few books on different guitars and I'm always catching something inaccurate.
Good to hear Jimmy Page is at 20 in the upcoming Telecaster video, I assume for his 'Stairway' lead (and earlier work). So is Gilmour there for his 'Dogs' (and other tracks) lead? Did you know that, although Gilmour sold his famous Strats he kept his good old Tele that Seymour Duncan gave him (well it's a two-pickup Encore but who's checking?).
👏👏👏👏👏 more.
This went by too fast :( Great episode. Thank you Keith and Martin. Hope to see you two again someday.
What a fantastic video have a good weekend keith also stay safe ❤😊
I've always wanted a Rick but haven't been ready to justify the cost. The jangle sound is right on and unique in the electric guitar world. But now I am going to ask where or when will there be a book and/or video on the history of another icon of the guitar in the US - Carvin/Kiesel? I currently play one of their 5 string neck-thru basses and have a six string neck-thru electric as well; both in walnut.
I want a Rick so bad just for the distorted sound (*I'm in love with the guitar sounds on The Who's 1st record) -funny thing is I can get really close to the distorted jangly sound with one of my Fender guitars - (I don't want to say which bc I feel like it's a little secret I figured out - it is one of the offsets that you covered in the short histories).. I will never have the money for a real one - even if I did I'd much rather have a lefty sg custom.. so I'll probably end up getting a copy.. I hate to admit that most of the copies I've heard on CZcams sounded much better than what I would expect..
Always wanted a Ric, not fussy, I'll have anything! Someone rich in my family might have to snuff it first though.
I bought my Ric 330 because of Paul Weller 😊
Waiting for it to be shipped to me
The one guitar I don’t have it’s next on the list though !! Jangle is Good
Great video.
Diggin' the top button. Very Sling Blade...Reckon I like me them semi-hollow Ridden Baggers, MmmHmm....Some folks call it an F-hole, I call 'er a "fiddle hole", MmmHmm.
The value of my 2005 Ric bass just went up $3000 ..they can't make enough of them😁
all guitars are finished by hand
No mention of Greg Kihn as an "influence" for the Rick 12. Played his rounded corner 360-12 until a Vox Phantom 12 came along with a fretboard better suited to Greg.
I think it's sad that the Rickenbacker six doesn't get enough coverage. I've had two. I currently have a 12 string and am thinking of ditching six strings, just a bit more pleasant.
Is this Martin Kelly the same guy as the Martin Kelly who wrote the book Fender: The Golden Age and was bass player in the band East Village?
It is! 😃
Yep
Not yet!
Carl Wilson! Done.
But the horseshoe stuck around for the bass until like ‘69 right?, or a similar version of it.
I own a blond 330 from the 90's
Right at the moment I'm heavily modifying the body of a Strat inspired by 325 rick
Jason is great with the 12. j.
Thanks!
@@JasonLoughlinMusic Hi, you play music on the Rick. most guitarist now just play fast scales. cheers. j.
The 'R' tailpiece on my 12 string failed (exploded) on my way to a gig. When I opened then case I was greeted with a birds nest of disconnected strings.
Rather under impressed with Rickenbacker service having taken twelve months to arrive. I managed to purchase a 3rd party tailpiece which is still on the guitar.
The R tailpiece seems under engineered. It looks solid from the top but from the underside it looks rather rough with a diecast look. Just don't trust it.
5ww The Short Hours
but the best
honorable mention: Ged
Collecting is the posh word for hoarding
Not yet
I tend to refer to my allotment as my "gun club" these days
Elvis: A little less conversation, a little more action please. like music and playing Ricks.
It’s an interview mate. ?