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Jazz Guitarist Jean "Toots" Theilemans was an early user and endorser of Rickenbacker guitars in the 1950s, using a Rickenbacker Combo 400 while playing as part of the George Shearing Quintet; this inspired a young John Lennon, a fan of Toots, to acquire a Rickenbacker for himself (a 325 model) while in Hamburg Germany in the early days of The ...
The Rickenbacker 4001 is an electric bass that was manufactured by Rickenbacker as a two-pickup "deluxe" version of their first production bass, the single-pickup model 4000. This design, created by Roger Rossmeisl , was manufactured between 1961 and 1981, when it was replaced by an updated version dubbed the Rickenbacker 4003 . [ 3 ]
Model 4003 [45] Model 4003AC (Al Cisneros Limited Edition) [46] Model 4003 FL [47] Model 4003 LH; Model 4003 "Shadow" Model 4003 SPC "Redneck" Model 4003 SPC-8 "Redneck" Model 4003 SPC "Tuxedo" Model 4003S; Model 4003SB; Model 4003SB LH; Model 4003S LH; Model 4003S SPC "Blackstar" Model 4003VPCB; Model 4003S/5; Model 4003S/8
The model 4003S ("standard") arrived in 1985, was discontinued in 2000, and relaunched in 2015. This was similar to the 4001S with its dot neck markers and no binding. From 1985 to 2002, the 4003 and 4003S had black hardware and black binding options available.
This is a list of musicians who are known to be regular players of Rickenbacker guitars and basses. Guitarists. Viv Albertine of The Slits; Chad Allen of The Guess Who;
The Rickenbacker 4001CS is a limited-edition series electric bass guitar based on Chris Squire's 1964 Rickenbacker 4001. [1] Only 1,000 were made between 1991 and 2000. [ 2 ] The 4001CS is another instrument from Rickenbacker's Limited Edition Series.
Rickenbacker guitars sold in Europe had traditional f-shaped sound holes until the 1980s. This was at the request of European instrument dealers, who were afraid that buyer response to the non-traditional "slash" sound holes would be poor. An example is the 1996, a (now discontinued) reissue of the export version of the 325.
Manufactured by Ro-Pat-In Corporation, Rickenbacker, the Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts is considered the pioneering "grandfather" to the modern electric guitar as it was the first commercially produced, full-scale (twenty-five inch) electric guitar ever produced. [1]