i love these kinds of videos where they let artists talk about their gear and you can see how passionate they are and the stories they're just ready to tell
I’d never heard of her or Against Me until September of last year when I was at riot fest and checked their band’s set out on a whim. One of the coolest live music experiences I’ve ever had and I’ve been obsessed with their music since.
@@alicendavid It's been 8 years.... come on. If we want to go back even further in The New Wave Album, the song The Ocean she literally says "And if I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman My mother once told me she would have named me Laura I'd grow up to be strong and beautiful like her". Being real about it, you've actually have 12 years.
The “ergonomic” model is a Rickenbacker 481. Coincidentally I have a maple-glo 481 that is not “slanted” and the mini toggle is a factory installed component. Manufactured between 1975-1982, the “481” is a bit of a rare beast.
Love her take on used guitars vs new guitars. And how incredibly correct she is! I just rescued a gorgeous Duesenberg Paloma stardust and that guitar does NOT dig me ignoring him. He just wants to be played. And deserves to be played! Love Laura! Amazing person. Incredibly talented musician 😄! Loved her before her transition, and I’ll always love her. From one trans artist to another ✊🏼. My wife fell in love with a Rick bass and we’ve been trying to save for two years to buy it. We’ll get there. I’m going to go play my duesenberg now! Awesome video ❤️
Evan Robbins. The whole joke is she keeps saying how the guitars she’s destroyed sound better than before throughout the whole video, did you not watch it?
I’ve seen Rise Against and Anti Flag play together. Still haven’t seen Against Me! WHEN ALL OF THIS BLOWS OVER I WANT ALL 3 TO TOUR THE US TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!
I saw Rise Against, Against Me!, Anti-Flag, and None More Black in Boston in the 2000's. Possibly the best punk and hardcore show I have ever seen in my life.
This past year I've been messing around with GarageBand and the first thing I did was dialed up a Vox, and using a Telecaster I was able to dial in LJG's sound. So up until now I was thinking that Rick's sounded like Tele single coil pickups. Then I started to think, "Huh, I wonder if she records with the Telecaster?" Because there's nothing like that bright Tele sound through a bright Vox amp. So delicious. Glad it was confirmed. Love my Squiers!
When she started playing Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ with the coil tap switch flipped, the tone sounded quite a bit like Lemmy, which is funny, because I'll always associate a Rickenbacker bass with him.
I love how honest she is “I got this guitar because I just love how it looks” Cmon everyone, you KNOW you’ve bought a guitar because of this exact reason!😁 But I don’t remember ever hear an artist on here admitting this, they make some goofy reasons up instead.
Yeah, the Rickenbackers are nice and everything but you have to admit that’s a damned fine looking backline. I do miss my AC30 head & cab. (These days, I make do with the small but perfectly formed AC15).
Can't beat that upper mid chimey quality in any Rick. I LOVE that 360 Noir of hers. Sounds meaner than hell. I think it's a really good balance in Against Me! Laura Jane's chimey, snarly sound against James Bowman's Les Paul bellow and roar. Love to see them in person, but I've only seen videos and they sound frickin' awesome. Yeah, TDOV. Let 'em see us, see what we can do.
@van wray WTF? You think Laura Jane is some kind of effin' guitar salesperson and that she's supposed to demonstrate "the many and varied sounds of the Rickenbacker guitar" just for YOU? Yo, she's playing it how SHE plays it, what feels and sounds good for HER and if it doesn't meet your expectations, THEN GO WATCH SOMETHING ELSE, YA MEATHEAD! Jay-zus on a pogo stick, you men don't want half much, do ya? Ya want yer effin' cake and ya wanna eat it too but only if it's gift-wrapped all pretty and comes with a complimentary full-body massage and dancing girls. Lower your standards, Ace. She don't owe you jack-shit.
Absolutely! I've always thought Peter Buck is one of the great, unsung guitar heroes. At least there are still musicians out there keeping this sound alive.
Rickenbackers are great for punk and rock rhythm playing. They fit around darker, more powerful guitars like Gibsons with more aggressive treble and overall a more open character. For example, Guy Picciotto also used a Rick in Fugazi and Rites of Spring.
i only remember them using a tele, but i haven't seen that band in over ten years. against me back in like 2002-2003 was really something transcendent.
Saw the in 2016 and it used a Nash Tele for the whole show. I’m sure it just comes down to having a lot of gear and just changing things out to keep from getting bored.
The all black 360 is a 360 because of the stereo outputs. The body is not a 330 body, but the pre-contour body from I think around 1960, before they redesigned it to the more rounded style in the early 60’s.
When I see people playing these Rickenbacker guitars I just think Tom Petty. Didn’t know anyone into rock would even use these. They have a nice thick sound. I like the black one at 5:50.
Umm... John Lennon, George Harrison, Carl Wilson, Roger McGuinn, John Fogerty, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Peter Buck, Johnny Marr, Susanna Hoffs, Radiohead, Tame Impala... Rickenbacker has been an integral brand throughout the history of Rock 'n' Roll... almost from the very beginning.
That is so damn funny and true! I've had a 360WB VP for years that absolutely fought me on every single note ever played on in. FOR YEARS! Last month I bought a new (to me) 360 burgundyglo. As soon as the older one saw it had competition it has been nothing short of GLORIOUS
Great Post & Amazing Collection! ThankYou Reverb For This. I Have 2 Rics; 381/12v69FG, & 350v63JG, With A Ric 4003W On It's Way, Once I've Payed The Last Installment. I Fell In Love With Rickenbacker Along Time Ago! Cheers, Mike.
That one that looks like a bass is a 481. Those are humbuckers (Rickenbacker design) and that little switch is a phase reversal switch which is standard for this model. If you want a brighter tone you flip the switch down and the pickups become hyper-interactive. There is a lot of treble if you slightly roll the neck volume back with both pickups on. It is really fun to play with the knobs and get a lot of different tones. The guitar has a “creamy screamy’ quality to it with a deep resonance similar to the 4001 bass. I have one and love it. It’s like nothing else. The neck is so easy to play for me as it is a nearly flat radius which feels like a wider neck than it actually is. Frets are on the small side. The slanted design works fine for me, really no different than regular.
I love your collection of Ricks !, I was surprised to see that Guy Picciotto from Fugazi played a Rickenbacker 330 in Jetglo , Ive got a Jetglo 360 , Ive been fantasizing about getting a 381-12 string and a 4003 bass....YEAH !! ( yeah-yeah-yeah !) Thanks for sharing !
I've always loved Rickenbackers (I've been a massive Beatles fan since I was a kid and loved the look of George Harrison's 360/12 from the _Hard Day's Night_ era) and so all of Laura's guitars look absolutely gorgeous. Also I will agree that the Rick 620 does look kinda funky but it's also the guitar that Tom Petty was known to play and is also holding on the cover of The Heartbreakers' _Damn the Torpedoes_ album, which I always thought was really cool
@@andrewpappas9311 AND, it is the next consecutive serial number from John Lennon's Ricky! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NNUWlrKaWkA.html
After further review, Campbell’s is a 1963 625/12 FG, different from 660/12, with thinner neck, Ric-o-sound stereo output jacks and white pick guard. The 660/12 was developed as the Tom Petty signature model based on Campbells 625/12 with the noted changes. Rickenbacker made 1000 copies of TP 660/12 and now produces them without the TP signature. Very happy to own one. Some nights, its the sound I need!
iused2BAfireman I remember the Petty signature, I tried it out and it sounds great. Thanks for the info, dude, it’s really helpful and it’s cool that the next number after Lennon’s. Also, awesome that you own a Rickenbacker, my dream Rick is a 360/12 like Harrison’s or a 4003 bass
Who else would know the difficulty of turning the G string of a Rick to the Gstring of a Les Paul? Great video! This is the type of video I'd love to make...last week I made a video about a Seattle street musician who owns 30 vintage Ibanez's! Hopefully my momentum will keep rolling and eventually I'll have enough clout to interview my favorite bands about their guitar collections!
Kindred spirits! I've played a 360-12 stripped back to six strings for 20+ years. Every subsequent guitar purchase has been an attempt to out-do/replicate the feel and sound of that guitar. Never happened and I've only had it professionally set up once. Incomparable beauty.
Ricks are more versatile than people would assume. I also love the fact that they are reasonable pricing considering they are made in America and have really great quality control.
@@Oceantreasures24 and if you check out some videos of them, the quality control is disappointing for the price. Guitars in the $2-4k should be flawless, and Rics definitely are not.
AwEsOmE Guitar collection, that bass body one sounds like a Bass, I've only got a Warwick Corvette 5 Bass and a Ibanez SRH500, I did have 2 Warlocks but they, ''disbanded''
When I was about 20 i was in a band and the other guitarist had a Rickenbacker and it used to hide behind my tele. It was an almost new late 80s or early 90s guitar and he traded it for another one a little older after about 6 months and we could hear him again.
I had no idea that rickenbacker was pronounced rickenbacker and not rickenbacker, I thought that cuz it sounds more German ish because I thought they were a German company, I learned a lot today
Great Video! And such a lovely collection. So, a bit of a nitpicker: but you have thought at length about the correct pronunciation of the company name. Hence my unimportant thoughts: since the name giver and co-founder Adolph Rickenbacker was born in Switzerland, more precisely in Basel, that is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (which is, after all, quadrilingual), the "a" in Rickenbacker should probably not be pronounced as æ (thing "apple") but as "a" (think "arm"). Just like in Bach (Johann Sebastian, not Swiss but also German-speaking).
Adolph modified the spelling from Rickenbacher to Rickenbacker. Side note: flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker is related to Adolf (they're distant cousins).
She did *_not_* play Osama Bin Laden As The Crucified Christ... beautiful. I got kicked out of Against Me's show at Riot Fest, actually. Good times! Happy belated transgender day of visibility!