Rickenbacker
Americannoun
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It was first presented in 1936 by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, then the track’s owner.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
It depicts Lemmy in his iconic pose singing up towards a microphone while playing a Rickenbacker bass guitar.
From BBC • May 9, 2025
Among the supporting cast, Olivia Griffin and John Kent Rickenbacker Jr. provide the musical accompaniment, with Griffin’s music therapist/yoga teacher playing the guitar and Rickenbacker’s nurse beatboxing.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
But for the finished song, the tape was slowed down: melting the edges of each note, making a Rickenbacker guitar sound like a sitar and muddying the ground below Lennon’s voice.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
Eddie Rickenbacker, Reed Landis, Tuper Weyman, Elmer Crowel, Bernard Granville, Douglas Campbell, these and others were the gallant Aces of our Army, flying and fighting daily over the front.
From The Greater Love by McCarthy, George T.
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