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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 5, 2013 16:27:31 GMT -5
Hi,I am new here. I am long time Replacements fan. Here is a guitar I bought this week at a store near Minneapolis. It's a 1984 Rickenbacker 620 12 string that used to belong to Paul. I am looking to find any information or photos of Paul playing this guitar. I know he played on Letterman and at Irving Plaza(videos below). The guitar was made in 1984 so Paul may have used it in other concerts or on recordings("Let It Be"?).If anyone has any info on this please let me know.Thanks!  ![]()  Paul used a magic marker on the pickguard to save his settings  Still trying to dis-cypher the tape on the case:what do you think the S.L. is an abbreviation for?    |
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 5, 2013 16:37:48 GMT -5
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Post by ClamsCasino on Oct 5, 2013 17:24:46 GMT -5
Wow, great score! I wonder why he sold it.
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 5, 2013 18:06:21 GMT -5
Wow, great score! I wonder why he sold it. Thanks,I don't know the full story but I do know that this guitar has passed through the hands of at least 2 or 3 other owners in the Minneapolis area. Jim Harms,the owner of My "Music Store" told me he first bought this guitar around 2001 and it was traded back in to his store twice. The last time was in 2010,I missed it by 2 hours that time. This week when I went to the store I saw it hanging on the wall.I said to Jim "That Looks like "The Westerberg Rickenbacker" and Jim said "It is" So I bought it on the spot. |
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Post by pat on Oct 5, 2013 18:24:10 GMT -5
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Did you get a good deal?
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 5, 2013 18:44:05 GMT -5
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Did you get a good deal? Thanks! I traded some other gear I had so it only cost me $400 out of pocket to get it. |
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Post by FreeRider on Oct 5, 2013 21:30:54 GMT -5
cool! I had also heard from someone else that Rickenbacker guitars are not fun to set up. I haven't researched it, but after some point, Rickenbacker started churning out sub-quality guitars with management changes. Maybe that's the reason why it's traded hands a few times?
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 5, 2013 22:54:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the post! Paul had another Rickenbacker guitar, this Jetglo 330 6-string.   |
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Post by anarkissed on Oct 6, 2013 1:06:17 GMT -5
The other guitarist in my (heyday) bands played Rickenbackers...He had a 6-stringer that was pretty reliable and user-friendly during our prime, but when I spoke to him years later, he indicated that it hadn't aged well...He had a 12-string that occasionally sounded fantastic, but was real temperamental, and was a bitch to tune...
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 6, 2013 1:35:02 GMT -5
The other guitarist in my (heyday) bands played Rickenbackers...He had a 6-stringer that was pretty reliable and user-friendly during our prime, but when I spoke to him years later, he indicated that it hadn't aged well...He had a 12-string that occasionally sounded fantastic, but was real temperamental, and was a bitch to tune... haha,that may be true,but you can't get this sound without a Rickenbacker 12 string. |
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Post by jess on Oct 6, 2013 13:09:01 GMT -5
That's quite an amazing score! I don't have any useful information to add but keep us updated & let us know what you find out about it.  |
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Post by chisel93 on Oct 6, 2013 22:06:22 GMT -5
Beautiful guitar and the fact that Paul owned it in the past makes it that much more of a score. Congrats!
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 8, 2013 14:19:49 GMT -5
Thanks!Right now I am trying to dig up any info I can find on this Rickenbacker Guitar.I wonder if there are any still photos from the 1996 Letterman show or the Irving Plaza concert? Also I'd love to know if there were any photographs made at "Blackberry Way Studio" during the recording of "Let It Be". Below is a letter written by Jim Harms concerning this guitar. and a photo of Paul at Irving Plaza in 1996.Jim is one the most reputable guitar dealers in Minnesota so I take him at his word that this was Paul's guitar. ![]() ![]()  |
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Post by Veets on Oct 8, 2013 17:43:31 GMT -5
So when are we going to see it up on eBay? Sounds like you have a good amount of documentation here.
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 8, 2013 19:49:41 GMT -5
So when are we going to see it up on eBay? Sounds like you have a good amount of documentation here. Haha,I don't thing my wife would let me sell it.She likes this guitar. ![]()  |
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Post by Stegman on Oct 9, 2013 13:57:02 GMT -5
S.L = Slung Low
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Post by Stegman on Oct 9, 2013 14:00:07 GMT -5
By the way, your cat looks less than impressed. Great shot, though.
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Post by creep66 on Oct 17, 2013 8:54:55 GMT -5
If I could get my hands on one of PW's old guitars, no matter how battered/ fucked up it may be, I would never get rid of it.... Great find, congrats!
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 19, 2013 13:51:19 GMT -5
Thanks for the posts! I asked Jim Harms to fill in the blanks about how the guitar got from Paul to him. He told me the guy he bought it from is a collector and a Replacements fan who bought the guitar from another local store. I think that guy bought the guitar around 1999 and sold it to Jim around 2001.Jim sold it to a regular customer soon after he bought it and it was traded back in in 2010 and sold the same day. I was lucky to be in the store when it came back for the 3rd time. 3rd times the charm! Jim is a great guy.He has been a dealer in the Minneapolis are for over 30 year working at legendary stores like +Music,Park Music and now My Music Store . He used to have a huge collection of vintage gear. When he opened the Golden Valley store he had about 150 vintage guitars anda huge stash of BF Fender amps for sale.Below is an early Fender Esquire that is on display at his store. Fender has verified the guitar as one Leo used as a test bed for the prototype Strat tremolos(notice the 3 saddle tremolo).  Actually,Paul and Laurie have both been a customers of Jims store.Paul bought Jim's vintage Epiphone Casino back when Jim first opened his Golden Valley Store. Also Jim told me that Paul once brought him a Les Paul Junior and asked if he wanted to buy it. Jim said the guitar was just a husk when Paul brought it in, a body with no pickup,hardware,pickguard or electronics.There was never any explanation about how the guitar got like this. Still it was a vintage Junior from around 1956 so Jim said it might be a better idea to restore it it with vintage parts and then sell it on consignment. Paul agreed and and Jim said he was able to get it put back together with all the appropriate parts but after he did Paul decided he didn't want to sell the guitar after all. I think Pau may still have it now. |
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Post by riotonsunset on Oct 19, 2013 14:08:02 GMT -5
By the way, your cat looks less than impressed. Great shot, though. Yeah,he's not a Rickenbacker cat,he mostly likes Gibsons .  |
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