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You're missing my point. How many people have ever even seen a Bigsby guitar in person? (Not the tremolo, an actual guitar.) How many mature guitarists have nev
by beat 8y ago
You're missing my point. How many people have ever even seen a Bigsby guitar in person? (Not the tremolo, an actual guitar.) How many mature guitarists have never played a Rickenbacker? Only Les Pauls have real distribution at all, but there are probably ten Teles for every Les Paul out there.
- coldtea 8y agoWell, does "a rare exotic most guitarists will never play" refer to actual guitarists (pros) or the millions that happen to have a guitar lying around and learned to strum some chords? In the pro circuit Rickenbackers are another tool to use, and there's also a thing as G.A.S. Is a PRS any more "rare exotic" that a Bigsby? And yet those are perfectly common guitars...
- beat 8y agoThe millions. And a lot of "learned to strum some chords" players are playing at professional levels. Being a famous musician doesn't have a great deal to do with ability, much of the time. But even there, Teles probably outnumber Rickenbackers 100:1 in professional hands. And PRS is pretty common, especially when you throw in the import models. Actual Bigsby guitars (I'm not talking the trem installed on another brand of guitar) haven't been made in decades and are extremely rare.
- bsder 8y ago> But even there, Teles probably outnumber Rickenbackers 100:1 in professional hands. Only recently. Rickenbackers were quite popular among the country performers at the start of the guitar era. A Rickenbacker into a Vox is the sound of the British Invasion. Guitars are fad driven. Strats were "garbage" until Hendrix and Clapton. Les Pauls were "garbage" until Slash. And so it goes ...