Rickenbacker produced a 60-bass run of Lemmy Kilmister signature basses, the 4004LK, which is fitted with three pickups, gold hardware, and elaborate wood carving in the shape of oak leaves.

He owns three white Stratocasters, a Gibson Les Paul special single cutaway, a Rickenbacker 325, and a Gretsch hollowbody.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

He has used Rickenbacker 4001 and 4003 bass guitars almost exclusively since his Hawkwind days, although some of these instruments were modified with the installation of Gibson Thunderbird pickups in the neck position.

Many post-British invasion Rickenbacker players such as Peter Buck, Paul Weller, and Johnny Marr have used instruments with these pickups.

Rickenbacker's humbucker / dual coil pickup has a similar tone to a Gibson P-90 pickup, and comes standard on the Rickenbacker 650 C. Vintage reissue models, and some signature models, come with Toaster Top pickups, which resemble a classic two-slotted chrome toaster.

In addition to the standard pickups, vintage reissue bass models are equipped with Horseshoe wrap-around style pickups, very similar to the pickups on the earliest Rickenbacker Frying Pan models.

Rickenbacker offered dual coil pickups arranged in a humbucking pattern beginning in late 1953 but dropped the design in 1954 due to the perceived distorted sound.

* Rickenbacker pickups ( including the original 1930s " horseshoe " pickup as used in lap steel and solidbody upright basses, and later 6 string electric guitars, pedal steels, and electric bass guitars ; also the " Toaster " and " Hi-Gain ")

* Rickenbacker 450 with Gibson PAF pickups

Lee once again used his Rickenbacker 4001 for the performance of " A Passage To Bangkok " on the 2007 and 2008 Snakes & Arrows Tour.

By the time he met George Beauchamp and began manufacturing metal bodies for the " Nationals " being produced by the National String Instruments Corporation, Rickenbacker was a highly-skilled production engineer and machinist.

Known for their distinctive jangle and chime, Rickenbacker guitars tended to be favoured by Jangle Pop, Power pop and British Invasion-style groups-bands such as The Who, The Byrds and The Beatles.

Lennon, for his part, made much greater use of acoustic guitar, forsaking his famous Rickenbacker.

This very complex deal was concluded when Rickenbacker presented Alfred P. Sloan with a certified check for $ 3. 5 million.

SAC's 301st Air Refueling Wing arrived from Rickenbacker AFB, Ohio and was responsible for the operation of KC-135R Stratotankers, refueling fighter, bomber, airlift, special operations and strategic reconnaissance aircraft worldwide.

Paul Tutmarc of Audiovox Manufacturing Co. built a solid body electric bass in 1935 and Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed a solid-body guitar in the 1930s and Paul A. Bigsby had built one for Merle Travis in 1948 and Leo Fender also independently created his own ( the Fender " Broadcaster " later changed to " Esquire " for copyright reasons, a single pickup model ) in 1948.

Rickenbacker found jobs to help support the family, but driven by an intense admiration for machines, Rickenbacker taught himself as much as he could, including enrolling in a correspondence course in engineering.

In 1916, Rickenbacker traveled to London, with the aim of developing an English car for American races.

Most men chosen for pilot training had college degrees and Rickenbacker had to struggle to gain permission to fly because of his perceived lack of academic qualifications.

Rickenbacker was awarded the French Croix de Guerre that month for his five victories.

In both vocal and guitar roles, Picciotto assumed the role of a foil to MacKaye ; employing a Rickenbacker guitar for its scratchy single-coil sound in order to " cut through MacKaye's chunky chording like a laser beam.

Shaw was shocked at the state of the Speedway and contacted owner Eddie Rickenbacker, only to discover that it was for sale.

* Hondo Rickenbacker 4001 bass copy – Used on Joy Division's 1978 – 1980 recordings and used live with Joy Division 1978 – 1980. In an interview in Bass Guitar magazine, he revealed that was given away to a child for a charity sale " He child didn't even use my name!

* Rickenbacker 360 ( used for The Daily Mail )

During World War II, Leo met Clayton Orr " Doc " Kauffman, an inventor and lap steel player who had worked for Rickenbacker, which had been building and selling lap steel guitars for a decade.

" In the late 1940s, solidbody electric guitars began to emerge in popularity, yet they were still considered novelty items with the Rickenbacker Spanish Electro guitar being the most commercially available solidbody, and Les Paul's one-off home-made " Log " and the Bigsby Travis guitar made by Paul Bigsby for Merle Travis being the most visible early examples.

Many autograph collectors are found in this field, looking for signed certificates from John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil Company, Henry Carey of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Atari Corporation, Eddie Rickenbacker as president of Eastern Air Lines, Tucker Corporation and many others.

Because the Rickenbacker does not have an FTL system of its own, the two ships are attached for the trip.

His continued unpaid shilling for Eastern Airlines earned him the undying gratitude of good friend Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I flying ace who was the President of the airline.

At the end of 1931, Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and with several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( elektRO-PATent-INstruments ) in order to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis upon their newly-developed A-25 Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the " Frying Pan " lap-steel electric guitar as well as an Electric Spanish ( standard ) model and companion amplifiers.

Hall of Rickenbacker met with the band and their manager, and gave Harrison a model 360 / 12 ( the second electric twelve-string built by Rickenbacker ).

In 1979, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would adopt the Rickenbacker 12-string " toaster " jangle into their records and still use the vintage 1960s models.

These instruments were also widely used among progressive rock bassists, particularly Chris Squire of Yes and Geddy Lee of Rush, who achieved distinctive signature sounds with their Rickenbacker bass, strung with round-wound Rotosound bass strings.

Although a small number of Rickenbacker acoustics were sold in the 1950s and were seen in the hands of stars like Ricky Nelson and Sam Cooke, the company concentrated on their electric guitar and western steel guitar business from the early 1960s onward.

In 1995, an effort was made to re-introduce Rickenbacker acoustics, with factory production beginning in their Santa Ana manufacturing facility in 1996.

The popular Rickenbacker 4001 and 4003 model electric bass guitars also have adjustable string mutes integrated into their bridge / tailpiece assemblies, which can be used to give the instrument a more percussive sound or to simulate the shorter sustain of an upright bass.

The strings are generally arranged such that the first string of each pair to be struck on a downward strum is the higher octave string ; however, this arrangement was reversed by Rickenbacker on their electric 360 / 12.

SHODAN informs the soldier that destroying the ship is their only option, but he must transmit her program to the Rickenbacker first.

Pilots Eddie Rickenbacker and Billy Bishop flew Nieuport aircraft to some of their first victories, with Bishop achieving his when the Nieuport 23 he flew was already obsolescent.

Gibson, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and other companies still make semi-acoustic and semi-hollow body guitars, making slight variations on their yearly designs.

In 1971, the Rickenbacker guitar company offered their 331LS " Lightshow " model ( and matching bass, model 4005LS ), the body of which contained a three-channel light organ ( with a dimmer ); each channel corresponded to the pitch of the strings being played.

Jack Hofner and Rowe Rickenbacker, Cloud 7's top agents, are mandated to do anything in their power to protect the Ishtarian royal family as well as their reputation while also protecting their property from crime and terrorism.

This Vibrola was also used on some Rickenbacker lap steel guitars at around the same time and was introduced on their six string electric guitars beginning about 1937.

The Rickenbacker purchase included their manufacturing equipment for eight-cylinder engines.