Hey, Bobby. Rickenbacker?
“Beatles played ’em.”
I guess.
“Look at all the knobs! And a switch!”
Cool. Any drawbacks?
“The sound.”
Yeah. Hey, Pig. Whatcha doing?
“Being authentic!”
Sure.
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That’s Adolph Rickenbacker and the first solid body guitar. Which also sounded kinda bad
The basses sounded and looked awesome, but the guitars were terrible janglemonsters.
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Good enough for Geddy. They are nice looking
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I took this portrait of Adolph Rickenbacker near the factory after we did an interview and had lunch back in 1973. Still have the old catalogs he gave me. I made a large print for their factory museum then too. This little guitar was the prototype testbed instrument with a simple neck and round body built as a fretted Spanish guitar. This !was handmade by Harry Watson the foreman at National… thus its striking resemblance to a Triolian neck. It was played quite a bit to before someone added a raised nut for Hawaiian playing.
I also interviewed Paul Barth and brother Jess Beauchamp who helped George when they developed that revolutionary horseshoe magnet pickup on a kitchen table with a sewing machine. The cast aluminum production models A-25 and A-22 models were nicknamed Frying Pan guitars. Their Electro RoPatIn guitars became the Rickenbacker guitars as National and Dobro had similar electrified guitars. Barth and Beauchamp designed other prototypes of Spanish models in wood and Hawaiian guitars in Bakelite. Barth went on to develop many modern Rickenbacker guitar and bass instruments we admire today.
Robby Lawrence
Author of the Les Paul Legacy
©RobbLawrence1973-2116
I took this portrait of Adolph Rickenbacker near the factory after we did an interview and had lunch back in 1973. Still have the old catalogs he gave me. I made a large print for their factory museum then too. My ’73 Rarebird article in Guitar Player magazine featured this famous iconic guitar and a b&w photo from this session.
This little guitar was the prototype testbed instrument with a simple neck and round body built as a fretted Spanish guitar. This was handmade by Harry Watson the foreman at National… thus its striking resemblance to a Triolian neck. It was played quite a bit to before someone added a raised nut for Hawaiian playing.
I also interviewed Paul Barth and brother Jess Beauchamp who helped George when they developed that revolutionary horseshoe magnet pickup on a kitchen table with a sewing machine. The cast aluminum production models A-25 and A-22 models were nicknamed Frying Pan guitars. Their Electro RoPatIn guitars became the Rickenbacker guitars as National and Dobro had similar electrified guitars.
Barth and Beauchamp designed other prototypes of Spanish models in wood and Hawaiian guitars in Bakelite and metal. After Beauchamps passing in 1940, Barth went on to develop many modern Rickenbacker guitar and bass instruments in the fifties and sixties we admire today.
Robby Lawrence
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Wow, wonderful picture and and even better story behind it! I’m going to order a copy of your book tonight. Thanks
Glad you enjoy the Adolph pic and story. He, Barth and Nolan Beauchamp shared some neat things about the beginning of the electric guitar. I’ve also been a fan of their chiming twelve strings too. Have fun reading my Les Paul books. There’s a lot more in store!
Bob & Pig. They coulda formed a duet group after the firing. Kinda like Jan & Dean or something like that.
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Well, now I have ideas.
That’s why i posted it
i don’t wanna shtican Bobby & Pig’s entrepreneurial spirit but i’m thinking cryptosporidia, salmonella and Hep A…..maybe some vibrio
Ohhhhh he’s so cute
Bob has lady hair, to the point where it’s giving Pig ideas.
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Between the hair and the shorts……..can you blame ol Pig?
HellOOO nurse