TommyK Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Ricks Picks in the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois. Now through about April 10. Rockford is Rick Neilsen's home town. This is not likely to be a 'traveling' showing, so if you are in the area, you'd better get there soon. Enjoy: One of if not THE first guitar Neilsen purchased from his parent's music shop. The Goya he's serenading his child with is the one in the display window. I think the text says he paid $35.00 for it. Money earned working in the music shop. He owns a few Epiphones too. Tele, Everly Brothers, a Rick, and ... what's that acoustic there? A Les Paul acoustic! Yup, a Les Paul acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veeman Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I was there also on Sunday. I was thinking there would be more guitars there, but still was plenty to look at. Rick sure does like his Hamer's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 ... ... A Gibson Thunderbolt!!! You don't see them very often! Part of the 1958 futuristic series, that was never released. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I happened to be watching the show American Pickers last week. They were in Rockford and one of the guys on the show is a Cheap Trick fan so they went to Ricks Picks. RN was there and took them to one of his storage units so they could pick through it. The unit was full of memorabilia from the floor to the ceiling including cases after cases of guitars. It was pretty interesting. RN says he has over 1900 guitars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veeman Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I found one thing very interesting, and possibly a falsehood. There was supposedly Lonnie Mack's Original 58 V displayed. It stated that it is Lonnie's 59 Red V minus the Bigsby. Well, Lonnie's V is a 58, Number 7, the seventh V ever built. I know it has had several headstock breaks. The V displayed is tagged as a 59, no evidence of any headstock repair, nor any evidence of any Bigsby ever having been mounted. Something fishy there. So when I got home I got to looking and couldn't find anything on the net about lonnie having sold his beloved V to RN, only that he still plays/gigs with it daily? so, WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I always thought this was a Les Paul acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Hello AXE! As part of Low-Z guitar series of the 70s, an acoustic with the Les Paul Low-impedance pickup was offered by Gibson. It was called the "Les Paul Jumbo". http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/lprusers/lprusers.html Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHTom Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 some very cool items in that display. I wish it was going to travel to a few other museums. NHTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomse Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Ricks Picks in the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois. Now through about April 10. Rockford is Rick Neilsen's home town. This is not likely to be a 'traveling' showing, so if you are in the area, you'd better get there soon. Enjoy: One of if not THE first guitar Neilsen purchased from his parent's music shop. The Goya he's serenading his child with is the one in the display window. I think the text says he paid $35.00 for it. Money earned working in the music shop. He owns a few Epiphones too. Tele, Everly Brothers, a Rick, and ... what's that acoustic there? A Les Paul acoustic! Yup, a Les Paul acoustic. Tommy K thanks for letting us see all of this, kind of neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 I decided to take a trip down memory lane.. and read some post I'd not seen. You're welcome. And... for what it's worth, at the closing of the show there was 'some talk' about taking the show on the road. But that was just talk and likely wishful thinking. Other non-guitar items was the Official Declaration, on school district letterhead, making RN an honorary, lifetime member of his former junior high school band. It seems he'd been kicked out of his Junior High band... for life... no kiddin', for life! Something about not following the music as it was written. In recent hears, the school district thought better of it and rectified the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hayden Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 A Gibson Thunderbolt!!! You don't see them very often! Part of the 1958 futuristic series, that was never released. Cheers... Bence Some thing you won't see that often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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