Talk:Rickenbacker

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[edit] Rickenbacker Series'

  • There should be an article about each Rickenbacker guitar series.

-- Sofa jazz man 14:19, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I concur with your view that there should be an article on each Ric series. JSC ltd 18:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
  • What about the 2000 and 3000 series - most [are] discontinued

[edit] 300 Series

  • I've been tweaking your articles so that they more closely conform to the conventions of WikiProject Guitarists and the Guitarist equipment task force, and I commend your effort in creating them. Keep it up! Furthermore, you may be interested in joining said WikiProject by visiting its page and adding your name to the list. JSC ltd 18:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Much Needed Sections

[edit] Amplifiers

  • I believe Electro String/Rickenbacker built amplifiers for a span of 60 years give or take --Strawberry Pudding Wings


[edit] Information that needs added to pre-existing areas

  • I'd like to see some information on the Rickenbacker 4080 doubleneck that Geddy Lee used in the 70's on this page. It came as both a bass/six-string model and a bass/twelve-string IIRC. --Insomniak 23:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colors & Body Finish

  • This section which talks about current colors, past colors, color of the year, and body finish in general, could use some more input. -- Strawberry Pudding Wings

[edit] Information that needs correction or deletion

  • Is the little tidbit about Gerry Marsden's guitar case really necessary? It seems to take away from the flow of the section.
  • Hmm. I didn't realise what an old comment I was responding to. Anyway, some emergency surgery was required on this article...

The Rickenbacker brand bass guitar was originally patented by Adolf Rickenbacker. With "horse shoe" magnet pick ups, they were rather crude at first. There's a nugget of truth in there, but it has become terribly confused in the editing. Rickenbacker didn't make basses until the late 50s or 1960, but Adolph Rickenbacker had sold the company in 1953. Most of the (1930s) patents seem to be in the name of the engineer George Beauchamp, anyway. I'll get back to the pickup technology later. The article as it was this morning was very bass-centric. While the 4000 series is justly famous, the 330s and 360s are just as much part of the story, as are the early "frying pan" Hawaiians. More work is needed.

--rbrwr

[edit] Major modifications needed that affect overall flow of article

  • I think something needs to be done about the way founding & early history is differentiated. I agree that founding & early history perhaps need to be seperated, but as of now the info in 'early history' (besides mention of the Adolf's name change) picks up from 50s while the earlier history (30s & 40s) lies within the founding area. I made an attempt to revamp this layout but the article was quickly restored by someone to it's original condition. I've accepted this and have added my amplifier information (there was still was no amp info) to founding history to keep things in linear order. The amps probably deserve their own category, just the same as the pickups, and yet it'd be hard to tell of the early history without mentioning that Electro String made them. To put it into better perspective I think the early history we have now is more of an area that loosely adjoins post-early history with pre-modern F.C. Hall history. I think it's a bit confusing not to regard the 1930s & 1940s era of the company as early history. After all it's approximately a twenty year span of time that we're not regarding as early history. Besides that point, I say there needs to be more information that explains the switch over of ownership to F.C. Hall and better explains the difference between the pre and post F.C. Hall era and better explains the relationship between F.C. Hall and Leo Fender.

-- Strawberry Pudding Wings

[edit] Modifications made

  • I've expanded the article on the frying pan and added a link to it from this article. I also removed words to the effect that it is "considered by some" to be the first electric guitar. It is very well documented that the "frying pan" was the first electric guitar ever produced. JSC ltd 17:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General questions about the content of this article

  • Cliff Burton Picture; That's an Ibanez copy he's using on that picture isn't it ?
  • Nope, it's the real thing; I've looked it up on various sites, and Cliff even says that it's the real thing in an interview.


[edit] Disputes

Regarding Peter Hook of Joy Division: Hooky *never* played an authentic Ric, but a lookalike copy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.12.183.162 (talk) 21:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Disambiguation

  • Shouldn't this be under "Rickenbacker guitar", not just Rickenbacker?
  • There's no need to disambiguate unless (or until) there's something to disambiguate it from. --rbrwr
  • Well as I was saying above, they built & sold other things (amps) besides just guitars so it'd probably be best to leave the article as Rickenbacker. Anyways, the Rickenbacker we're talking about here, seems to be the most famous one, so if there needs to be a disambiguation, I still think this article should be the main one you're directed to if you were to just enter "Rickenbacker".

--Strawberry Pudding Wings

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