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    Well, I've never played a Ric but I do know that there are a couple of models on sale at Musiciansfriend. I think they're something like $500 off normal prices. It's a call in "special".
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    Those aren't "specials"... Ric marketing agreement doesn't allow dealers to directly advertise pricing. If you call or email, dealers will divulge their retail pricing.

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    I really like the sound of Rickenbackers but their narrow string spacing doesn't like my fat fingers. I did play the 650 series which is a more modern guitar and I thought it was fantastic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket
    Those aren't "specials"... Ric marketing agreement doesn't allow dealers to directly advertise pricing. If you call or email, dealers will divulge their retail pricing.
    I don't know about their marketing agreement. Just trying to share some info. I read on another board if anyone's interested. I believe the "retail pricing" expires 7/26.
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    An acquaintance of mine (my son's dad) plays rhythm in a band that had some mild success in the '90s in LA, and he plays his Ric. It is brown and white but that is about all I know about it, other than I think it is a 300 series. I think they are cool looking myself, but I don't see myself spending the dough on one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
    An acquaintance of mine (my son's dad) plays rhythm in a band that had some mild success in the '90s in LA, and he plays his Ric. It is brown and white but that is about all I know about it, other than I think it is a 300 series. I think they are cool looking myself, but I don't see myself spending the dough on one.
    hmm just wondering but wouldn't your son's dad be you?

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    Oops, son's friend's dad. That would be cool if I was the owner though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
    Oops, son's friend's dad. That would be cool if I was the owner though.
    You're a lawyer, turn your typo into a guitar.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pes_laul
    hmm just wondering but wouldn't your son's dad be you?
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    I'll always regret that I didn't see Fugazi when they played a small club in Gainesville (which I also played on other occasions, and which probably existed for less than a year).

    That said, I'm a Ric owner, I have a 620 solidbody with Hi-Gains. I like it a lot but the neck is small and if you have big mitts the string spacing could be a serious problem. It's not really designed for being a "lead" guitar in the modern sense but has cool tone and, I think, great looks.

    In my case, my Ric was the deal of the century. I was trying to sell off an Epi Flying V w/ohsc (which I'd bought used for $250) in order to pay off a different deal (my minty '99 LP Classic for a paltry $750). An old scene buddy of mine instead proposed a STRAIGHT TRADE of his beater Ric 620 for my Epi Flying V. After ensuring he didn't think I had a Gibby V, I quickly decided to instead trade the V and sell something else to finance the LP Classic!

    Here's my beater 620:



    I haven't used mine as much as I would like. It's not well suited to Crash Pad (though I have used it for that):




    but is well suited for my roots-rock side band, though my lead singer has the same guitar in blue:



    Now I'm playing bass in the side band, though, so I hope to use the Ric in church, plus the occasional Crash Pad show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duhvoodooman
    Catch a Petty & the Heartbreakers concert and you'll see plenty of Rics, played through Vox stacks. Sure sounded good to me, but those guys are certainly not your average band....

    To wit:

    In Campbell's case, though you're seeing Vox Super Beatles, in most cases during their set you're hearing his Fender Deluxe:



    Not to knock Vox, just sayin'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Krashpad
    In Campbell's case, though you're seeing Vox Super Beatles, in most cases during their set you're hearing his Fender Deluxe:

    Not to knock Vox, just sayin'.
    OK. Why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Krashpad
    ...my Ric was the deal of the century. ...
    For an Epi V? Darn right. :
    Here's my beater 620...
    Never heard a Ric relegated to 'beater' status. Daisy Rock, OTH...
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    Quote Originally Posted by marnold
    OK. Why?
    Mike Campbell:

    We have a combination of things; on the last few tours, we brought the [Vox] Super Beatles back after having retired them for a while because they are really loud, and as we got older it was harder to sing over that volume. We brought them back because we missed some of the tones that we used to get from them. Those Super Beatles are on stage now - I'm not actually playing through them but Tom does on a couple of songs. Behind them are the things that we are actually using in the mix.

    Right now my favorite setup, which I kinda found with my little band in the clubs but I use onstage now with the Heartbreakers, is a tweed Deluxe and a blackface Fender Princeton together behind the Super Beatle, and an isolated Vox AC30 that I have backstage in a box. The guy up front can pull up any of those amps that fit the room that night, but mostly it's the blackface Princeton and the tweed Deluxe, which is a '59. Those two amps sound really great together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wingsdad
    For an Epi V? Darn right. :

    Never heard a Ric relegated to 'beater' status. Daisy Rock, OTH...
    By beater in this instance I just mean it was beat up when I got it. Cosmetically, it's a mess. Rust, sticker ghost images, plating flaking off, etc.
    Last edited by Brian Krashpad; July 23rd, 2009 at 08:53 AM.

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    The very friend of mine who was directly responsible for getting me into guitars owns 2 Rics - one from a "few" years back - and one he bought in Boise, Idaho about 4 yrs ago when we were both away at the same time with work. He intended to sell the newer one on as the exchange rates were good at the time, and it wouldn't have been his own choice of colour (orangey-creamy-beige IIRC)! I remeber him walking back into the hotel with a huge grin and a guitar case in his hand and saying "wanna see what I just bought?" It certainly does look good, though, and in the end he didn't sell it. Mainly, I think, because he is a Ric fan. Well, Rickenbacker did invent the electric guitar, don't you know? as once or twice he's informed me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Krashpad
    playing flaking off, etc.
    Sounds like more of a personal problem to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marnold
    Sounds like more of a personal problem to me.
    Haha, fixed.

    Why'd they put the "t" next to the "y?"

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    Originally Posted by pes_laul
    hmm just wondering but wouldn't your son's dad be you?
    Not if it was his stepson ....
    “Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.” Stevie Ray Vaughan

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