HeyJaredRickenbacker 101
A detailed guide to Rickenbacker guitars: history, models, specs, pickups, and terminology. Clear, accurate, and built for players, collectors, and enthusiasts.
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Short Takes: 1982 4005BT (opens the original)
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Let’s play a little game. I want you to close your eyes and picture a white Rickenbacker bass. Ok. Got it? Was it this?Boy, I tell you, I encountered a Tuxedo in the wild at Manny’s in New York in…1988? 1989? I was dumbstruck. Picture one of these brand new, so white it almost hurt your eyes, not a scratch on it. Just wow.But that’s not the white bass we’re going to talk about today. In fact, we’re not talking about a BH/BT-era bass at all. So with that in mind, close your eyes and try again. An
The Ricktionary (opens the original)
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Just like any other fandom, Rickenbacker fans and collectors have developed a language all their own. If you’re new to the game, it won’t take long before you run into mysterious abbreviations, factory terminology, collector jargon, and nicknames that everyone else seems to understand.So let’s translate.Below you’ll find most of the terms and abbreviations you’re likely to encounter in the Rickenbacker world, along with a brief explanation of what the hell everybody is talking about. And where t
Short Takes: 1988 Per Gessle 350 (opens the original)
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I’d wager that unless you’re Swedish, you’ve likely never heard of Per Gessle—although you probably have heard of Roxette, the duo he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986. I’d also wager you didn’t realize Roxette was Sweden’s second-best-selling musical act of all time—behind only ABBA. But they are.Over their career, Roxette would sell more than 75 million records worldwide, score 19 Top 40 singles in the UK, and land four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the U.S., including The Look a
Short Takes: Rose Morris Redburst (opens the original)
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If you were just briefly scanning thumbnail pics, you could be forgiven for dismissing this guitar as some cheap 1960s Japanese Rickenbacker knock-off.I mean, does that red-to-black burst scream Teisco or what? But you’d be wrong. It’s legit. That guitar left the factory on South Kilson Drive in Santa Ana with that finish. And what’s more, it’s technically Autumnglo.Well, that’s what the production records say, anyway. And while yes, Autumnglo has varied a lot over the years—and I mean a lot a l
Terminology: Stubby (opens the original)
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The brief from F.C. Hall was pretty clear: make me a 12-string guitar without that stupid long 12-string headstock. Well, maybe not those exact words—Dick Burke recalls it was something along the lines of “could we come up with a configuration to make it not much bigger than a regulation six-string head.” Same thing, basically. What Burke came up with was pretty ingenious—three “normal” tuners and three “sideways” tuners per side, with slots routed into the headstock so you could reach those sid
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