List of Rickenbacker players
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This is a list of musicians who are known to be regular players of Rickenbacker guitars and basses.
Guitarists
Viv Albertine of The Slits
Chad Allen of The Guess Who
Adam Anderson of Hurts
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day
Jim Babjak of The Smithereens
Randy Bachman of The Guess Who
Richard Barone of The Bongos
Kurt Ballou of Converge
Peter Banks of Yes
Andy Bell of Ride, Oasis and Beady Eye
Kat Bjelland of Babes In Toyland and Katastrophy Wife
Mark Blackburn of Jacob's Trouble
James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney
David Bryson of Counting Crows
Peter Buck of R.E.M.
Jeff Buckley
Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mike Connell of The Connells
Mark Crozer of The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo
Lenny Davidson of The Dave Clark Five
Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens
Pete Doherty of The Libertines
Sherri DuPree of Eisley
The Edge of U2
Thomas Erak of the Fall of Troy
Jay Ferguson of Sloan
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens
Les Fradkin of Beatlemania
Glenn Frey of The Eagles
Noel Gallagher of Oasis
Craig Gannon of The Smiths
Mark Gardener of Ride
Per Gessle of Roxette
Maurice Gibb of Bee Gees (1988–1994)
Eric Goulden (Wreckless Eric)
Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!
Dave Gregory of XTC
Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders and the Coal Porters
Neil Halstead of Slowdive
Caleb Harper of Spacey Jane
George Harrison of The Beatles
Lilly Hiatt
Tony Hicks of The Hollies
Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles
Miles Holmwood of Stereos
James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders
Keith Hopwood of Herman's Hermits
Steve Howe of Yes
Kenny Howes
James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins
Daniel Johns of Silverchair
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones
Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane
John Kay of Steppenwolf
Daniel Kessler of Interpol
Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend
Jesse Lacey of Brand New
Denny Laine of The Moody Blues
Braeden Lemasters of Wallows
John Lennon of The Beatles
Yegor Letov of Grazhdanskaya Oborona
Courtney Love of Hole
Laura Marling
Johnny Marr of The Smiths
Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers
Chris Martin of Coldplay
Remi Matsuo of Glim Spanky
Paul McCartney of The Beatles & Wings
Roger McGuinn of The Byrds
Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens
John McNally of The Searchers
Wendy Melvoin of Prince and The Revolution
Dave Meros of Spock's Beard
Graham Nash of The Hollies
Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
Christopher Owens of Girls
Kevin Parker of Tame Impala
Mike Pender of The Searchers
Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Guy Picciotto of Fugazi
Sergio Pizzorno of Kasabian
Cole Preston of Wallows
Johnny Ramone of Ramones
Jim Reeves
Tim Rogers of You Am I
Rover
Tom Rowley of Milburn
Michael Rutherford of Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics
Charlie Sexton of Arc Angels
Tommy Shaw of Styx
Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio
Brix Smith Start of The Fall
Elliott Smith
Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band
Rick Springfield
Bernard Sumner of New Order and Joy Division
Toots Thielemans
Pete Townshend of The Who
Chris Urbanowicz of Editors
Robert van der Kroft
Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Pål Waaktaar of a-Ha
Dave Wakeling of The English Beat
Jeff Walls of Guadalcanal Diary
Joe Walsh of The Eagles
Paul Weller of The Jam and The Style Council
Paul Westerberg of The Replacements
Marty Willson-Piper of The Church
Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys
Dwight Yoakam
Thom Yorke of Radiohead
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick
Bassists
Lemmy of Motörhead
Gaye Advert of The Adverts
Martin Eric Ain of Celtic Frost
André 3000 of Outkast
Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend
Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr
Guy Berryman of Coldplay
Zeta Bosio of Soda Stereo
Rob Bryan of Be-Bop Deluxe
Cliff Burton of Metallica
Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath
Johnny Christ of Avenged Sevenfold
Al Cisneros of Sleep and Om
Les Claypool of Primus
Paul D'Amour of Tool
Alan Davey of Hawkwind
John Deacon of Queen
Joey DeMaio of Manowar
Steve Di Giorgio of bands such as Sadus, Dark Hall & Testament
Dave Dreiwitz of Ween
John Entwistle of The Who
Bruce Foxton of The Jam
Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes
Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees
Martin "Youth" Glover of Killing Joke
Roger Glover of Deep Purple
Hellmut Hattler of Kraan
Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth
Martin Gordon of Sparks, Jet and Radio Stars.
Graham Gouldman of 10cc
Bob Hardy of Franz Ferdinand
Haruko Haruhara of FLCL
Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple
Rick James
Pete Trewavas of Marillion
Tony James of Generation X
Inge Johansson of Against Me!
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