Music videos that feature Rics

Started by Highlander, February 01, 2014, 05:21:31 PM

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ilan

1/2" spacing JG's always remind me of my first Ric. 50 years since the change and the 1" spacing still looks wrong to me.

That ~1967 Ric 456 6/12 convertible is interesting!

Jeff Scott

Quote from: ilan on March 12, 2024, 11:17:02 AM
1/2" spacing JG's always remind me of my first Ric. 50 years since the change and the 1" spacing still looks wrong to me.

Ditto.

uwe

That Searchers cover of a Leiber/Stoller classic is pretty horrible - except for the pristine harmony vocals. It's too fast, no groove and the guitarist doesn't know what key (or scale) he's playing.

They used to do it better:



If not as good as this:



I love that song, but it needs that Cajun-spooky feel:



We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

ilan

Quote from: uwe on March 12, 2024, 06:33:01 PM
and the guitarist doesn't know what key (or scale) he's playing

Yeah, that was hard to listen to. They probably had studio players for the original recording. Still, they had enough time since then to learn how to play or memorize a decent solo.

Dave W

The Clovers' original is easily better than any of the covers.

uwe

#500
This fits then, it has a Ric in it ...



Honorary mention ...

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

uwe

Randy with a Ric and my favorite Eagles number, yeah, I'm a pansy ...

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

gearHed289

Quote from: uwe on March 13, 2024, 02:47:19 PM
Randy with a Ric and my favorite Eagles number, yeah, I'm a pansy ...



You don't have to be a pansy to love this song.  ;)

uwe

I always liked the story it told, it's like a movie unfolding before your eyes. "Every form of refuge has its price" - that's almost John Steinbeck.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Paul Boyer

One of my favorite lyric lines is in "Tequilla Sunrise" - "workin' on a dream he planned to try" - four "conditionals" stacked into one line.
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"The Rickenbacker Electric Bass - 50 Years as Rock's Bottom"

gearHed289

A lot, if not most, of their songs are good stories.

ilan

Quote from: uwe on March 14, 2024, 05:41:06 PM
I always liked the story it told, it's like a movie unfolding before your eyes. "Every form of refuge has its price" - that's almost John Steinbeck.

I never paid attention to the lyrics until now. Just looked it up. Beautiful.

gearHed289

Quote from: Paul Boyer on March 15, 2024, 09:01:35 AM
One of my favorite lyric lines is in "Tequilla Sunrise" - "workin' on a dream he planned to try" - four "conditionals" stacked into one line.

I love this. I never would have put that together.

uwe

For all the not so nice things you can hear and read about the Eagles, both Frey and Henley were skilled lyricists. It was as important as the music to them.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

uwe

#509
Jerome Rimson (ex-Automatic Man) funky with his Ric (? - or is that some John Birch model?) and two keyboard players (who both played with Jon Lord) plus Steve Harley ...



And here slapping (at 02:52) with an Irish rhythm guitarist:

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...