In the "Club"

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:35 am

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

(Actually just wanted to post something, to see I were a Senior Member yet...)

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:36 am

And I am! And there was much rejoicing!

gstuadams · Post by **gstuadams** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:44 am

A 'umble junior member offers to get this thread back on track by asking did the Ruttles sport any Rics in that oft forgotten cinema classic?

robj · Post by **robj** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:47 am

Bloody peasant.....

http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/main.html

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Fri May 23, 2003 6:53 am

Ron Nasty did indeed sport a mid '60s 615 FG, and Dirk McQuickly (sp?) used a 4001FG LH.

See also http://www.rutles.org/

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Fri May 23, 2003 8:53 am

Today I passed the 300 mark meself. WOO HOO!!

grsnovi · Post by **grsnovi** » Fri May 23, 2003 2:56 pm

All this talk of spam and dead parrots made me go out and get the set of all 45 episodes on DVD (as well as HOLY GRAIL).

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Sat May 24, 2003 8:13 am

Two words: Fawlty Towers

robj · Post by **robj** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:50 am

Amen Jerry. I've had the series on VHS, both copied off the tele and the official VHS release, for years.

No matter how many times I watch those episodes I still laugh my butt off.

dougp · Post by **dougp** » Wed May 28, 2003 2:09 pm

In Ritchie Unterberger's great 'Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll' book (which, IIRC, also includes a photo of Skip Spence from Moby Grape with a 360), there's a photo of the Archaeology-era 3-piece Rutles in which Stig O'Hara is holding what looks like a 360, but I doubt it's a Rickenbacker, since Barry Wom's drumkit sports an "Earwig" logo. Unfortunately, I can't read the truss rod cover, but I would suspect that it reads "Lickenbacker", "Ricenbacker", "Wickenwacker", or something similar. Does anyone know for certain? ;^) ...

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:30 pm

Doug, take a look at this: http://www.rutles.org/rpix/cavern.jpg

Definitely not a 360, but it's a photo of the Rutles performing at The Cavern Club, October 1961. It's also the cover photo of "the Rutland May 1960 CD, one of the many releases of the recordings of the Rutles made in Hamburg prior to being signed with Parlorphone".

admin · Post by **admin** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:22 pm

It is a Model 450. Based on the tailpiece, it seems to have a vibrato arm missing.

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Wed May 28, 2003 6:06 pm

Thanks, Peter. I just can't believe I'm posting about the Rutles and Stig's guitar.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Thu May 29, 2003 2:03 am

Peter and Dave: I think what Ron Nasty is playing is a Rose-Morris version of a model 615, if not a 615 with black knobs---pickups are mounted on top of the body, not routed in. This is the only one of these I've seen too. There have to be more of these floating around.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu May 29, 2003 2:25 am

John: You are right. Thanks for the correction and the excellent eyesight!