I love your collection of Beautiful Rickenbackers and the way that you play them You are a lucky person that is gifted with the power and drive from Pete Townshend and Paul Weller
Excellent! Great lesson. It’s amazing how long those old Rickenbackers last when not being used as a sledgehammer against stages and amp stacks. Seriously, great to see and hear the vintage Ricky’s in such a cool setting.
It’s basically a D chord you were searching for. He definitely tuned everything down a full step on the Smothers Brothers show and played in the key of A to start. It has a really cool spongy low tone. The end sequence goes D-C-G. He played it live later in the same key but not tuned down (Live at Leeds).
Interesting info! I love this guitar. I just got an NOS 1997 from 1998. I have a few questions if you know some of the history of Rickenbackers. I don’t know anyone who knows much.
Nice sounding Rick. But on the original recording Pete’s strings were tuned down one whole tone each, so it’s played with A shapes. On the live version (Live At Leeds) it’s in A.
Indeed, yes. I mentioned this at the beginning of my lesson portion of the video. I didn't tune down to a step because no one really wants to detune their guitar, only to have to tune it back up to play anything else, so I showed a way to make the sound of the chords work well without detuning...
Great, great tones, thanks for posting! I have a couple of Rics, a 360-6V64 and a '67 360-12. The 12 is very ringy, but the six string is not. Got to say that your tone is fantastic, I can't get anything like that. I think that it's the Roland Jazz Chorus, McGuinn used this amp in the past too. You get a sustain that's not totally inherent in the guitar, are you using a compressor too by chance?
HI. Thanks for the comments. Yes--A compressor, along with various other effects coming from an old Boss ME-50 multi-effects pedal, and playing through two amps.
Great job again and guitar.
I love your collection of Beautiful Rickenbackers and the way that you play them
You are a lucky person that is gifted with the power and drive from Pete Townshend and Paul Weller
Excellent! Great lesson. It’s amazing how long those old Rickenbackers last when not being used as a sledgehammer against stages and amp stacks. Seriously, great to see and hear the vintage Ricky’s in such a cool setting.
Thanks for your comment. I'm lucky to have this old girl. Trying to work out a vintage 1993 at the moment...
It’s basically a D chord you were searching for. He definitely tuned everything down a full step on the Smothers Brothers show and played in the key of A to start. It has a really cool spongy low tone. The end sequence goes D-C-G. He played it live later in the same key but not tuned down (Live at Leeds).
Great tip. Thanks.
Good to see you John.
Great sound.
Interesting info! I love this guitar. I just got an NOS 1997 from 1998. I have a few questions if you know some of the history of Rickenbackers. I don’t know anyone who knows much.
Nice sounding Rick. But on the original recording Pete’s strings were tuned down one whole tone each, so it’s played with A shapes. On the live version (Live At Leeds) it’s in A.
Indeed, yes. I mentioned this at the beginning of my lesson portion of the video. I didn't tune down to a step because no one really wants to detune their guitar, only to have to tune it back up to play anything else, so I showed a way to make the sound of the chords work well without detuning...
Great, great tones, thanks for posting! I have a couple of Rics, a 360-6V64 and a '67 360-12. The 12 is very ringy, but the six string is not. Got to say that your tone is fantastic, I can't get anything like that. I think that it's the Roland Jazz Chorus, McGuinn used this amp in the past too. You get a sustain that's not totally inherent in the guitar, are you using a compressor too by chance?
HI. Thanks for the comments. Yes--A compressor, along with various other effects coming from an old Boss ME-50 multi-effects pedal, and playing through two amps.
Beautiful sounding guitar. AC 30 or 15 for the amp?
That's an AC30 and a Roland Jazz Chorus 50 at the same time... Thanks for the fine question. 😎