Doug Feiger & his 330 Prototype

[route66guitars]

I was going through my old images and came across this shot I thought you guys might like to see:



This is Doug Feiger of The Knack with his 1957 'butcher block' long body prototype 330 Capri. The shot was taken some time between October of 1988 and March of 1989, I believe.

What is really interesting about this guitar is that it has a cherry red painted on 'sound hole,' and that it was painted a couple of times before it left the factory. I guess this was to get it just right. It appears in both the Smith and Rittor Music books.

Smith (p. 103 - first variant)
Rittor Music (p. 26-27 - second variant, as above)

Last I heard this guitar was still in the collection of Oyama Katsuyuki. (Nearly all of the Rickenbackers he acquired from 1988 - 1994 came from me through another broker. The only instrument we sold him directly was Suzi Arden's 1963 360-12.)

Scott

[route66guitars]

oops... forgot to mention, image ©1989 Scott Jennings.

I hate to be picky about this, but I find my and Jeff's images all over the internet without our permission. Even the 330 prototype image used in the banner for this forum is one of my shots that was initially used without permission.

Sj

[ozover50]

Fair enough, Scott. I understand these things.

The painted on sound hole is interesting... why? IMO it would look much better without it.

© Howard

Not having a go at you here, Scott. I spent hundreds of hours putting together a 'best and fairest' count (MVP if you like) presentation for a football club using Powerpoint. If I may say so, it was an excellent result! I sent a copy to the club's then coach with explicit requests to observe the copyright notices within the presentation.... next thing I know it's all over the freakin' state!!! When I sought legal advice I found that the inclusion of the copyright notices was sufficient to protect my intellectual property. The question from the legal eagle was 'how much money are you prepared to spend to pursue it?'. It would have cost me thousands and the offender(s) would have been given a minor slap on the wrist and been told not to do it again!

I gave up!!

[admin]

Beautiful photo of Doug Feiger, Scott.

May I please take this opportunity to apologize to you for using your 330 prototype photo. On the few occasions that I did use a photo of yours, it was my memory that I went through the photographer who did the work. I believe his first name was Jeff.

Again, I am sorry for not giving you the credit you deserved.

[route66guitars]

Hi Peter,

You and I did email about this quite a while back, and I have no problem with the use of my stuff on this forum. My concern is that my images end up being used somewhere else without proper credit. I should be flattered that it happens so often, I guess. But I'm just funny that way.

Much of the white background stuff that has appeared on my web site over the years was shot by me. Jeff Veitch shot all of the more artistic stuff.

Jeff worked for me for many years as store manager, and is truly a world class photographer. In the late 1980s he pretty much set the standard for how instruments are photographed. On a few occasions his images have been used commercially without permission. In one particularly stupid example Gibson used one of his shots of a 1958 Les Paul Custom in one of their instrument catalogs. His web site is www.veitch.net if anyone is interested in his work.

Sj

[atomic_punk]

3 dots at the 12th fret, and 2 dots at the 5th and 17th frets! Great photo, Scott! I am a fan of the Knack, great to see!