I liked his sound better, so I went out and got a Rickenbacker 360 12-string.” “We saw A Hard Day’s Night and realized the Beatles were playing a Gretsch electric six-string, Ludwig drums and a Hofner bass.Īnd George Harrison switched between the Gretsch and this Rickenbacker 12-string that didn’t look like a 12-string at first, because the peghead concealed six of the tuners.īut when he turned sideways, I went, ‘Oh that’s a 12-string!’ I was playing a Gibson acoustic 12 with a pickup in it, but it didn’t have the kind of sound George was getting. “We were already a band and we were rehearsing and working with acoustic instruments,” McGuinn told me. George Harrison proclaimed the Byrds “The American Beatles.” Like Bob Dylan himself, the Byrds were, for the most part, seasoned folk musicians who’d become fascinated by the new style of electric guitar rock and roll that the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Yardbirds, Animals and other British groups had brought to the fore.
They’re the pied pipers who transported us from “yeah yeah yeah” to Purple Haze, basically. At the vanguard of the folk rock phenomenon, the Byrds were the bridge that led from the British invasion into the psychedelic era.
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