There are Guitars, and there are Rickenbacker Guitars
There are many guitars, and there are those Rickenbacker Guitars.
Guitars.
Guitars have the longstanding status of being one of the most popular of musical instruments, standing alongside the piano. With origins dating back to over 5000 years ago, guitars are truly versatile musical instruments which have heavily profound influences with modern day pop 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 made by the Rickenbacker International Corporation, a known leader in the production of quality guitars, specifically electric guitars. With its headquarters based in Santa Ana, California, Rickenbacker is famous for being the largest guitar maker who manufactures their guitars all within the borders of the United States.
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 popularity of electric guitars in the music scene, Rickenbacker guitars have nicely blended with the now generic look of bands and popular music, as The Beatles, arguably the most influential music group of the 20th century, used Rickenbacker guitars. This connection with The Beatles and Rickenbacker guitars began when budding singer John Lennon got a Rickenbacker 325 Capri in 1960. The Rickenbacker 325 Capri which John Lennon bought, was refinished in black, and was used in the famous 1964 Ed Sullivan Show debut of The Beatles.
Other notable 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 Airplane 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.
