There Are Guitars, And There Are Rickenbacker Guitars

By Jarvis D. Burris

There are numerous guitars, and there are those Rickenbacker Guitars.

Guitars.

Guitars have the longstanding standing of being one of the hottest of musical instruments, standing next to the piano. With origins all the way back to over 5000 years back, guitars are truly flexible musical instruments which have heavily surpassing influences with present day popular culture, as well as with the direction in which music has taken.

Rock and roll stands to be one genre in which guitars practically dominate. Blues, Country, Funk, Jazz, Alternative, Flamenco, and even pop are also other genres in which guitars are always present, resonating their sounds, ever feeding listeners' souls with enriching quality music. As a musical instrument, there are various classes of guitars, each ideal for specific musical genres, as well as for general music use.

There are steel stringed acoustic guitars, classical acoustic guitars, basic solid-body electric guitars, archtop guitars and electric and acoustic bass guitars. Of course, these mentioned guitar classes aren't the only ones out in the market, as there are more other classes ranging from double headed guitars, to twelve string guitars.

There are also Rickenbacker Guitars.

Rickenbacker Guitars are guitars manufactured by the Rickenbacker Global Firm , a known leader in the production of quality guitars, particularly electrical guitars. With its headquarters based in Santa Ana, California, Rickenbacker is feted for being the biggest guitar maker who manufactures their guitars all in the borders of the US.

The most notable thing with Rickenbacker, as a guitar maker, would be that of the electric guitar, as Rickenbacker is the first makers of the electric guitar during the 1930s. With the electric guitar having a very profound influence with music, Rickenbacker guitars simply stood tall, and still stands tall, in the hierarchy of guitars today.

During the 60s, with the rising acceptance of electrical guitars in the music scene, Rickenbacker guitars have nicely mixed with the now generic look of bands and preferred music, as The Beatles, possibly the most influential music group of the 20 th century, used Rickenbacker guitars. This connection with The Beatles and Rickenbacker guitars commenced when budding vocalist John Lennon got a Rickenbacker 325 Capri in 1960. The Rickenbacker 325 Capri which John Lennon acquired, was refinished in black, and was employed in the famous 1964 Ed Sullivan Show debut of The Beatles.

Other prominent musicians and performers who have used and still use Rickenbacker guitars include, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend of The Who, Mike Pender of The Searchers, Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, Paul Kantner of Jefferson aeroplane and Al Nichol of The Turtles and Steppenwolf. Many New Wave bands also used Rickenbacker guitars, including Peter Buck of R.E.M, Tom Petty, Jonny Marr of the Smiths, Susannah Hoffs of The Bangles and Marty Wilson-Piper of The Church.

Today, Rickenbacker guitars still hold the esteemed status in which quality guitars could possibly achieve. With Rickenbacker's long standing line of famous "endorsers", quality in Rickenbacker guitars is a sure thing.

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