* two Martin D35 acoustic guitars (6 & 12 strings) Today, his Ramirez-guitar is part of his guitar-collection which also includes: Due to his musical studies at the Karlsruhe Music-High-School he qualified as a Spanish guitar teacher. He practised night and day and invested the then very high sum of DM 3.600,- (about 1500 GBP) in an original Spanish Ramirez-guitar. He recorded and released his first self-written song co- written with Gerd, titled Night-Work with The Moonlights which was released as 7" on Metronomes.įive years later The Moonlights split up, and Hans was getting more and more interested in playing classical Spanish guitar inspired by Segovia and Julian Bream. He changed again to The Moonlights, who were popular in the Karlsruhe-area playing American GI-clubs and dances, guesting in radio- and talents-shows. and went to a band called The Twenties although Hans himself was just only 18.īesides his job as radio-technician, he studied classic Spanish guitar at the Karlsruhe Music- High-School where he met Gerd Koethe who studied saxophone. It was a solid body Hofner model with three pick-ups and a vibrato system, not unlike the stratocaster.
![ricky king hale hey louise ricky king hale hey louise](http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/a4fe3b93565859a504bf06ba69341107.jpg)
and he changed from acoustic to an electric guitar which cost him around DM 275,- (about 100 GBP).
![ricky king hale hey louise ricky king hale hey louise](http://rickyking.ch/data/files/cd_bluediamonds.jpg)
In 1962 on he joined a band called The Fellows. Hans was, like many other guitar-playing kids, deeply impressed and fascinated by this new type of sound. A brandnew guitar-sound rushed all over the world in those days The Shadows. At the same time, he joined his first band and his guitar skills got better and better. He took first lessons from a guitar-teacher from Offenburg and, due to his interests in electronics he was taught to be a radio-technician.
![ricky king hale hey louise ricky king hale hey louise](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wimHUWVGHuE/hqdefault.jpg)
A short time later he got a better one, also acoustic, and he taught himself his first chords and joined in with records of then-popular artists such Peter Kraus (a German rock and roll singer who ist still active and successful nowadays in the German-speaking area), Elvis and Bill Haley. Due to high distance between the steel strings and neck, it was a bit difficult and paining to play, so it was not much fun for him. When he was 12 - it was the time of Rock and Roll - his parents presented him with his first acoustic guitar, a cheap no-name model. Ricky King was born 12th March 1946 as Hans Lingenfelder in Rastatt (near Baden-Baden. Completely and unexpectedly, he became successful, established himself and today, in the new millenium, he is still active and playing. This excellent, sometimes underrated German guitarist, writer, arranger and guitar-teacher stepped onto the scene in the mid-70's at a time when instrumental guitar music was out of public interest except for a handful of hardliner-fans. Hans Lingenfelder, born on March 12, 1946.