John, you play guitar correct? You don't necessarily have to get a Rick to get the Rick sound. Search 'Janglebox' and you'll find a pedal that imparts some EQ'ed compression in a couple of stages to give that Byrds vibe to other electric guitars. I did a half-way decent mockup of it with plugins back a couple of years ago when someone asked the same thing.

Band limited compression; a couple stages of it in series - with some peaks in the EQ as well - that gives a very 'rick' sound to single-coil guitars. I can dig up my signal flow path if you are interested - PM me.

http://janglebox.com/

-Scott