The distinctive, vibrant sound of a Rickenbacker comes from a solid neck that runs from the headstock through the body, said DeWitt Burton, R.E.M.’s equipment manager in Athens, Ga.

It's interesting that this guitar finds fans in members of the Guitarist team who usually hiss like ill-tempered cats when confronted with the prospect of actually playing a guitar with The Big R on ...

Headstock. Body. The Cheyenne, at just shy of 20 years old, is actually one of the newer models in the Rickenbacker bass range. Here we look at its latest iteration, the 4004CII. Compared with most ...

In 1964, the Rickenbacker brand flew on John Lennon’s headstock during the mania-inducing performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” They’ve also been strummed by Tom Petty and R.E.M.’s ...

Fogerty played the Rickenbacker 325 at Woodstock and on nearly every Creedence Clearwater ... had put a humbucking pickup in it and taken the Rickenbacker nameplate off the headstock,” says ...

Adolph Rickenbacker, ... Detail of the headstock on a vintage 1967 Rickenbacker 366-12 Convertible electric guitar with a Fireglo finish, taken on September 29, 2017.

While obvious 12-string contenders would be one of Rickenbacker’s Beatles, Byrds or Petty-inspired models, and Fender’s hockey stick headstock Electric XII, we reckon if anything could coax ...

In place of the Rickenbacker logo, Fogerty painted ACME in yellow, a reference to the fictional company from Warner Bros cartoons. “Years later, I decided I was going to sell it,” Norm remembers.