Dick Clark Auction (incl. Hofner bass auction)

[rickboy88]

This is not quite Rickenbacker related, but in a way it is because I'd heard on local Denver radio about McCartney's "Rickenbacker" bass (yikes!) being auctioned off - which made me listen really well!

Anyway, I'd posted to the Ric company forum some weeks ago about the Hofner (not Rickenbacker) that they were going to auction for the Dick Clark auction - which I believe starts today. It looks like my original post to the Ric company forum has been removed (did a search), so I thought I'd update folks here who are on both forums.

I get the "Voom" channels on Dish Network here in the U.S. and the "Treasure Seekers" collector's channel has been running a Dick Clark Auction preview show quite often.

The Hofner bass actually looks to be a late 60's c1968 model. Both the body and pickguard are supposedly signed by Paul McCartney. The pickups date it to this period. The pick-ups have a "squeezed-O" black marking on the tops, and it is a bass I've *never* seen him play in any photos. See a similar one from 1968:
http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/gallery2/gallery9/ga102.html

This is indeed likely the one that briefly passed through his hands, if at all.