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Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: Paul Boyer on August 30, 2011, 10:38:43 AM
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With luck, will be published late this year, early 2012, and hopefully by Hal Leonard/Backbeat:
http://www.rocks-bottom.com/
Any questions or comments, fire away!
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Welcome Paul! Great to have you here. Best of luck with the book, I know it's going to be a must-have.
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Very cool! I can't wait!
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Oh, that looks great! I can put a copy next to my Jetglo v63.
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Looks like a great read !
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Hey Paul, I do have a question. Is that my former 4004 on the cover?
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DAVE! There you are! Long time no hear! No, actually, that one belongs to someone else and his is featured in the book as it is in stock condition. The one I bought from you received a volume/volume/tone mod back in 2004. Looks pretty much the same except the little microswitch has been replaced by a third knob. Still have it among the 21 in my "Rickenbacker National Forest."
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Basses/Small%20basses/DSCN5958.jpg)
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Hey Paul, welcome to the Pit... I mean LBO! ;) Hal Leonard - that would be great. I might need at least 2 copies - makes a great gift!
Are you still looking for photos of any particular models, or are you set?
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Right, I had forgotten about the V/V/T mod.
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So, The LBO used to be the DudePit? I wondered where that went. Glad to be back. I hang mostly at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum, and have posted on the Beat Gear Cavern and RIC company forum as well.
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So, The LBO used to be the DudePit? I wondered where that went. Glad to be back. I hang mostly at the Rickenbacker Resource Forum, and have posted on the Beat Gear Cavern and RIC company forum as well.
No, he was joking, we're definitely not the Pit.
Most of the original members here knew each other from the Gibson forum at the Pit. Not long before the Pit went down for the third time, Uwe and I decided to start a forum so we'd all have a place to meet. That's why there's more Gibson activity here.
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Isn't that Denver Pyle in your avatar?
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Denver Pyle as Briscoe Darling. At least until I decide to change it again. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfuBOX76hs
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Gawd, it's awfully quiet around here, so I'll give you an update. Looks like I will have to resolve a software compatibility issue with the Hal Leonard/Backbeat folks before I can go much further on the book. Bassically (!) my page-making program will not translate into what they use for publishing, so I'll have to rebuild what I have done into their program. It shouldn't be difficult, just time consuming. The design work is already done, so it's just a matter of placing the text and photos into new templates, etc. Still looking at a 2012 publishing date, so stay tuned to this network!
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Having seen a couple of sample pages, I can assure you it's worth the wait.
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Paul! Great to see you here. :)
Paul has been laboring for several years compiling very hard to find information and photo's from some of the finest Rickenbacker basses around the globe for this book. It will be a must for Rickenbacker fans.
Oh, and he also owns the "Rickenbacker Forest". :)
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That's the Rickenbacker NATIONAL Forest!
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Models/RNFweb.jpg)
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:) I humbly stand corrected sir... :)
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That Sea Green 4003 looks familiar Paul. :mrgreen:
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There are new plantings in the forest since this pic was taken.
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'Tis true. Here are the latest. I just sold the brilliant white V63 (refin) to a collector, but these four joined the Forest in the last year or so. First, a Turquoise 4004L Laredo where I swapped out the chrome hardware for gold. Since the body wings were made of the maple/walnut/maple sandwich anyway, this is nearly a thoroughbred 4004Cii now:
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Basses/Small%20basses/Turq4004web1.jpg)
An early 4001CS Chris Squire Limited Edition that was refinished by Paul Wilczynski:
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Basses/Small%20basses/CSportraitweb1.jpg)
Don't know if ya'll know what a "real" Rickenbacker Tuxedo looks like, but they were a special painted all white over a 4003S with a maple fingerboard. Since the white usually yellows badly, they look pretty sickly to my eye. I prefer natural maple, so I had Larry Davis strip this one and apply a satin clear finish. I call it a "Naked Tux":
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Basses/Small%20basses/Nakedtuxweb.jpg)
And last, a basket case 1972 4001 restored with a bright Azureglo finish by Larry Davis. The new bridge/tailpiece assembly is a concession to a full vintage restoration:
(http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/PaulBoyer/Basses/Small%20basses/Azure4001web.jpg)
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Today, I signed and delivered a book contract with Hal Leonard/BackBeat Books for my book. Now I have to finish the book and deliver it to them by December. I hope to do so by summer. The clock is ticking!
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Great news, Paul!
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Awesome!
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love that minty green one....
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Congrats on the contract, Paul.
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Great news!
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You clear that with the Ric Police?
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As I was kicked off the RRF by the CEO .... I have not seen much of you.
I think we spoke a few years ago.. did you ever talk to Brian Carman or Dick Burke ?
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Hi Mark,
I think I tried Carmen some time ago with no response. Might not have gotten through. I did talk with Dick Burke after literally years of trying to track him down. The number you gave me was good and I left a message. He called back a week or two later. Unfortunately, the questions I had were more to do with marketing and he is more the nuts and bolts type, of course. Funny, he ends up living a few blocks away from the factory!
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As I was kicked off the RRF by the CEO .... I have not seen much of you.
I think we spoke a few years ago.. did you ever talk to Brian Carman or Dick Burke ?
The CEO can stay there, we'll stay here..
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Sooooo, back to the book.
I had a very pleasant phone conversation with Chris Squire yesterday. Our exchanges will form the forward to the book. He has also put me in touch with Yesworld's photographer who will help supply images of Chris for the book. Now with the contract signed and the foreword underway, progress is really rolling along nicely.
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Awesome! I hope everything works out smoothly. I can't wait to get the book!
That Turquoise 4004 is just amazing! The gold hardware just makes it perfect.
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Many thanks for doing the book and I'm sure it'll be VERY well received. If I order NOW do I get a "Snuggie" available in my choice of Ric discontinued colors? If so, please sign me up.....I'll be using my "PayPaul" account. ;)
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Back in the early '90s I was the first guy Ric let into it's archives vault for a NAMM Show cover story in the trade magazine Music & Sound Retailer. I remember how pissed off all the consumer guitar magazine editors were at that show to see I'd scooped them all and also had some Ric photos never before in print.
I lucked out because Ric was never an advertiser of our's and our publisher gave me flak that I wanted to do such a major feature/cover story for the NAMM Show issue...but he finally caved and said OK after I told him it would be a major buzz story at the show if he OK'd it. I would have been fired it it wasn't. But it definitely also caused major sh*t with the guitar companies that WERE our advertisers.
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What year was that ? Was Brian Carman Still the plant manager ?