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Topic: David Lindley Rickenbacher |
Robert Corwin
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 5:04 am |
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I've just made an interesting discovery.
I've found a web page (part of the Rickenbacker Registration Page: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mccorp/ ) with a photo of Jackson Browne holding David Lindley's "1930's Electro String Model B Lapsteel":
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mccorp/jbrowne.html
What's interesting is that this is not a lap steel. Look closely at the shape and position of the chrome plates, and you'll see that it's the roundneck Elecktro Spanish Model B Guitar. This guitar had working frets built into the bakelite, and was designed to be played as a regular guitar. Looks like this one has been converted, as the one I own is, to play lap style with the addition of a metal nut.
Does anyone know if this is indeed the guitar Lindley used on Running on Empty, and/or toured with, or did he usually play a regular bakelite lap steel?
Surprisingly, the Rickenbacker Registry lists this guitar separately, neither with 6 strings or lap steels, but then mistakenly puts the caption "Electro Spanish Lap Steel" under it's picture.
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mccorp/framespage.html |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 5:14 am
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| I don't know how much I'd trust the source, especially since he says "David Lingley". Kootch has many interesting guitars, too. Might be his, and that kind of looks like a later photo. |
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Dwight Mark
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Denver, Colorado, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 6:56 am
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I would imagine that Lindley has more than one Ricky. I have that old 70's soundstage video, but it's really poor quality. However, it looks like he has a 7-string ricky if I remember correctly...
Has anyone recently watched the Jackson Browne "Going Home" video. The answer may be in those video clips of Running on Empty.
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 7:37 am
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The guitar pictured there (belonging to "David Lingley" - ha!) is a round-neck Bakelite model. Mr. Dave has several Rickenbacker lap steels - see the Rickenbacker Book by Tony Bacon and Paul Day for some photos. He used a regular Rickenbacker B6 lap steel every time I saw him with Jackson Browne back in the 1970s.
David Lindley's web site also has some pictures of a National Dynamic (sitting on top of his Dumble amp) and his Supro Console and Comet lap steels (which, when put together, look like a tripleneck!)
When I saw David Lindley at the Fillmore earlier this month (the special El Rayo X reunion), he played the Supro Console doubleneck table steel.
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[This message was edited by Brad Bechtel on 24 September 2003 at 08:38 AM.] |
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Russ Young
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 6:37 pm
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Mr. Dave plays his National Dynamic in the recent VH1 special about Warren Zevon (they're recording "Numb as a Statue" from the new album.)
I have an early '80s tape from German TV featuring El-Rayo X -- he plays his Supro Console, as well as a Weissenborn, a Melobar Skreemer, a Sears Silvertone solidbody, a bozouki ... and what I can only guess is an electric bandurria (?) |
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Dwight Mark
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Denver, Colorado, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2003 6:45 pm
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Yeah, I have some of those German videos with Lindley where he plays the supro double steel. He emailed me once after visiting my site and I talked to him the last time I saw him in Boulder, CO. He had the 7 string Canopus Weissenborn, and he absolutely wailed on the electric oud, that he said he just got back from Ry Cooder. He had about 12 instruments that night. Probably 4 different Weissenborns, 2 octave mandolins, it was just crazy... He has that converted Vox 8 string mandocello thing...
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