The classic Chris Squire bass tone is best described as clanky, clacky, brittle, hollow and so on, but rather than deciphering endless adjectives it's probably best to listen to Roundabout and marvel ...

This not only looks good, it also sounds great! Do try one if you can - it could change your bass- playing life. As far as production-line basses are concerned, this is pricey and not always easy to ...

Ah, the Rickenbacker. Few guitar brands out there are as legendary and long-loved as this one. Not only did Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp come up with a concept that would revolutionize the ...

Primus frontman, novelist, film director and bassist Les Claypool isn’t your average musician. For starters, he doesn’t think like you and I do. As he says: “I don’t necessarily think of my bass as a ...

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With ringing intros written on a Rickenbacker 12-string that helped define the musical tastes of a generation, the songs of The Byrds changed the shape of contemporary music in the mid- and late 1960s ...

Rickenbacker International has a problem General Motors would love. The company that made the first electric guitar and instruments popularized by The Beatles can’t make them fast enough. “We’re ...