Guitar thefts are, unfortunately, a negative side effect of being a guitarist, and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn learned that the hard way in 1965: his prized Rickenbacker was swiped from right under his ...

Although he took influence from George Harrison, as a session player Roger McGuinn had been experimenting with 12-string guitar sounds long before he was captivated by the Beatles and Harrison’s use ...

Tom Petty got a real kick in the balls late last week when he discovered that his vintage blond 1967 12-string Rickenbacker and his Gibson SGTV Junior had been stolen from a California soundstage ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Roger McGuinn had been at the forefront of both rock and country-rock since the mid-1960s. He co-founded the Byrds, which got much of its sound from McGuinn's ...

LITTLE ROCK — Rickenbacker International has a problem that General Motors would love to have. The company that made the first electric guitar and whose instruments were popularized by The Beatles in ...

When the Ashcroft stage set contains a single chair, a handful of pot plants and a powder blue 12-string Rickenbacker electric guitar gleaming in the spotlight, you know who is about to appear, writes ...