Chords for 5 Things I Know about Roger McGuinn & his Rickenbacker

[N] _ Hey [G#] guys and thanks for joining me again.
Well, I've [F] had a few requests in the last few months to do a video on my Rickenbacker guitar
which people have spied in the background of a [F#] few other videos, and I thought [D#] this week I'd take that opportunity and
_ [C] _ show you my [A] Rickenbacker guitar.
[C] So here it is.
This actually is [A] a signature Roger [D#m] McQueen model and
_ _ [F#] it's a 370 [A] 12 RM and
[F#] _ _ these were actually released in [E] about 1989 and actually this one I [Am] purchased new in Melbourne [D#] and
_ [A] it's got quite a lot [D#] of sentimental value for me actually [B] because it was my 21st birthday [D] present from my parents and _
fortunately my father passed [E] away last year, so there's a lot of [G] sentimentality in this guitar.
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I thought I'd tell you five [E] things that I know [A] about Roger McQueen.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, the first thing I can tell you about [F#m] Roger McQueen is his fascination with [Fm] Rickenbacker guitars started [F] after he saw George [D#] Harrison
playing a 12 string Rickenbacker [F] in the Beatles [F#] film A Hard Day's Night and
[F] he was pretty [C] enamored with the look of the guitar and [F] also the sound of it.
[C] So he went out [E] trying to find the very [F] same model that Harrison had but
that was a [F#]
fireglow with the pointy end [D#] cutaways and he just couldn't find one.
All he could find [G] was a 360 and [F#] maple glow and that [D#] reminded him of a golden Palomino horse, the color of it,
and he loved that.
[A] And according to what he says, he went home and he played [Fm] it for eight hours [E] a day
honing his style on that guitar.
_ Originally, he [F] has a folk background and [F#] also a banjo playing background,
so a lot of his [F#m] rolling [A] arpeggio styles have come from that.
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So one of the signature sounds of Roger [F#] McQueen is a very [F] heavily compressed [B] sound and
according to him that [D#m] actually happened quite [F#] by accident.
When the Byrds first [A] went into Columbia Studios back in the [Em] 60s,
the studio was normally [F] used to having classical musicians in there and they were very [D#] cautious with the rock band [F] and
added a lot of compression [D#] to the signal to protect [B] their recording gear.
Now McQueen loved that so much,
he actually asked them to put more [Bm] compression on the signal [G] and
_ [B] his sound was born.
Now the Roger McQueen _ [Em]
Rickenbacker [D#m] that has an inbuilt compressor [E] in it
to [D] give him
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of the other signatures to [B] the McQueen sound is adding a Vox treble booster to the signal and
Paul [E] Cantor from Jefferson Aeroplane [B] was playing Rickenbackers at the same time and
suggested to [F] McQueen that he [B] actually use a Vox treble booster [F] and
actually that was an outboard piece of equipment and McQueen actually took it apart and
actually installed [E] it himself [D#] inside his 12-string Rickenbacker.
[F#] So the use of [C] compression and a treble booster [E] _ gave him his signature [F#m] sound and of course the Rickenbacker signature
[A] _ McQueen guitar also has a treble booster.
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_ _ _ _ _ So prior to 1988 [F#m] and the development of his signature [C] guitar,
apparently Roger McQueen was [F#m] never truly happy [D#m] with his stage sound [C] and especially the compression.
[F] He never felt [D#] that it kind of replicated what he could do in the [F#m] studio and [C] Rickenbacker spent a lot of time
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developing the internal electronics on the guitar.
[B] So it's [F] active and again
[D#m] it's that compressor and treble booster [Em] which really gives you that [D] signature McQueen sound.
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So my final point on Rickenbacker guitars is [G] while they're great for jingle jangle and power pop
they're [F#] also fantastic for [B] more sound design stuff.
If you use [F#]
lots of [Fm] chorus and kind of delays
[F#] you can [E] really get them sounding very orchestral.
_ But recently [G] too I had [F#] Dean James, a [F] Melbourne guitarist in and he grabbed this guitar and actually played some [F#m] funk on it.
So I'm gonna leave you with [D] that.
[B] If you've owned a Rickenbacker, own a [Am] Rickenbacker and got some comments about them, please [F#m] leave them in the comment section.
I look forward to hearing them [Am] and I look forward to seeing you [Bm] on another video.
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