Guitars

Formentera Guitars - "LLUNA" (2018)

I built this one from scratch during my 3 week holidaze on the beautiful island of Formentera, and she's been my #1 go-to guitar ever since.

Check out the Ridge @ Formentera Guitars page!

The Blue Ridge 1887

I built this one from a Fender Squier alder body (E-Series, ca. 85). Neck is a Göldo vintage maple (12" radius), Wilkinson VS100, and 2 humbuckers: In neck position Duncan's Lil' 59 (coil split via push/pull pot), and in bridge position the EVH signature pickup (yezzzz, the ltd edition with Ed's original sig).

For the assembly and the paint job I did, have a look at the "making of" below...

The making of...

Yamaha Pacifica USA 2

My companion since 1999. Together we went through (approx) 666 battles...

Gibson Les Paul Jimmy Page Signature

Wall of sound, mighty voice, holy grail of resonance...

Put it this way: Tone, tone, tone...

Way more stuff to come, stay tuned!

Amps

Floorboards

Coming up - Richie live

12.06. 2026 - Geldern

13.06. 2026 - Chattahoochee Hamburg

26.06. 2026 - Daun

27.06. 2026 - Arnsberg-Neheim

01.07. 2026 - Bad Nenndorf

29.07. 2026 - Kiel Tonberghalle

07.08. 2026 - Kriebstein Seebühne

08.08. 2026 - Bad Segebg. Kalkberg Oase

22.08. 2026 - Eppingen Open Air

26.08. 2026 - Kiel Metro Kino

29.08. 2026 - Linau (private party)

30.08. 2026 - Kiel Tonberghalle

04.09. 2026 - Norden Festival Schleswig

30.09. 2026 - Malente Immenhof

28.10. 2026 - Kiel Tonberghalle

27.12. 2026 - Hamburg Bahnhof Pauli

31.12. 2026 - Bischofsgrün

White: Der Udonaut und die Paniker
Red: Johnny B. Bad
Green: Wer kommt der kommt

Violet - Mona & die falschen 50er

What's up, Ridge?

Meeting (and rehearsing with) Udo Lindenberg

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Dreams come true. Sometimes. Happened to me in May '22. No kidding', seriously!

In April '22 I got a call from Andy, a guy who turned out to be a member of the „inner circle“ of Udo Lindenberg’s tour production team. In essence: „The artist wants to meet you, Richie! And bring your guitar...“.

Wait... WHAT?!?

Fou...

So, this happened on May 1st 2022:

I drove to Timmendorfer Strand, where UL and the Panikorchester were rehearsing for the tour ’22, and met all these icons I knew from concerts and articles and the telly. I met the man himself and we rehearsed his music all day long. Mark well: Not a tribute band, I was part of the real deal!

I met a totally friendly, overwhelmingly nice guy, professionally well informed about this Richie Jones he was making music with. A man who’s absolutely reflected and aware about his attribute being a national treasure, totally committed to making everybody in the room feel comfortable and easy, including himself.

Maybe the purpose of having me at a rehearsal was to check out some plan B on guitar players against the background of the pandemic.

Since the tour took place without any virus incident (hence me not playing on this tour), you might ask: „Okay, now what’s next?!?“ Frankly, I dunno. Still, I keep dreaming of being part of Germany’s greatest Rock’n Roll circus. But whatever may come, hey, I’m already on the bright side of life. I played with Udo Lindenberg, he liked what he saw/heard, and nobody will ever take that away from me.

Surely, a dream came true…

Hamburg, May 2022