Cool Rics on eBay / Reverb / Craigslist

[Highlander]

Obviously got shares in photoberkit... 

[Dave W]

Price is reasonable. I still wonder if choosing the name Montezuma Brown for the color of the year was meant as a joke.

[Denis]

The local guy who owned The Music Connection and now sells and repairs Rics exclusively says the selection of that color was absolutely a sick joke.
Apparently John Hall visited Mexico and got a case of Montezuma's Revenge and when he came back Montezuma Brown became the color of the year.

[mc900ftj]

I still wonder if choosing the name Montezuma Brown for the color of the year was meant as a joke.

I was thinking the same thing!

[ilan]

The local guy who owned The Music Connection and now sells and repairs Rics exclusively says the selection of that color was absolutely a sick joke.
Apparently John Hall visited Mexico and got a case of Montezuma's Revenge and when he came back Montezuma Brown became the color of the year.

Here's a story that will haunt me forever, every time I will see this finish.

[Alanko]

Maybe he can use some of the proceeds to buy a sodding lawn rake? I've seen that lawn in the back of a fair few Rickenbacker sales.

[ilan]

A very clean Sept. '86 Shadow at Olivia's. # ZI 2552. So clean it looks NOS. $3,790 BIN.

[Dave W]

Gorgeous!

[ilan]

This could be a quite rare B Series bass. 1981 4003SB?

[Paul Boyer]

More accurately, a 4001SB or an S with a Toaster-top pickup installed. When Rickenbacker first came up with the idea of Beatle lookalikes, they made the bass by simply taking off-the-shelf 4001S out of inventory and placing a Toaster-top pickup in the standard 1" position. When the 4001S were gone, they started making the 4003S, and with the Toaster, the 4003SB. Details on pp. 72-73 in the book. Note that this one on eBay has a set neck with the shedua strip, a positive identifier of production 4001S (and 4000) of the time.

When John Hall bought the company from his father, he stopped the B series lookalikes and replaced them with the more accurate V series starting in 1984.

[Happy Face]

Not Ebay, but CL.  I am the seller.

http://maine.craigslist.org/msg/5465733088.html

[ilan]

Beautiful... I love Burgs.

The handrest looks way too high, you could check this and assemble it correctly. The "ears" go under the springs. It will be significantly easier to play the bass this way.

[Happy Face]

Gotcha. I noticed something was amiss there and talked about it with the guy who just bought it.

I'll send him the link!  Thanks.

[ilan]

Rare beauty: '77 4000FL. $2.5K BIN

[Paul Boyer]

That's only the second fretless 4000 that I've ever seen. The other is Gary Clauson's '77 4000FL in Burgundy.