Color of the year

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:35 pm

So I check out the RIC website and it says the 2004 color is Blue Boy???? Wasn't this around last year... First it was banned from the USA, then we were able to get it. Now it's the new color for 2004... Are the guys at RIC stumped at coming up with new colors?

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:39 pm

Don, I don't think that it was "banned", it just wasn't offered here at the time. Now it is and iI think that it s a cool color. Especially on a 660 or a Mandolin. It must be the gold guards. I don't think that they are stumped for colors. It s hard to pick a finish that will sell a lot of guitars. Montezuma Brown is a great color, Desert Gold and Sea Green probably weren't big sellers.

PS: Still kicking myself for NOT ordering a 350V63 SEA GREEN!

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:41 pm

Actually Desert Gold did quite well- it started out at least as strong as Montezuma Brown did. We had to squelch it a bit ourselves as they color is really hard to do consistently.

North America is getting the Blue Boy color it couldn't get before as the color of the year and the new color they'll be getting outside North America is . . . well, I'd have to kill you if I told you now.

By the way, all of this pretty well kills the rumor that the color of the year is always the color of my car. Honestly, I've never had a blue or shaded brown car.

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:58 pm

"Actually Desert Gold did quite well" - John Hall

Well, shut my mouth! I wuz wrong.

Actually,I'm glad to hear that it was popular. Yea!

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:20 pm

Here is a really nice 660/12 in DG.

John, you really crack me up, I love it!!!

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:23 pm

I thoroughly regret parting with my 340/DG when I see this picture:
http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/33/33903/pages/212976/340ovenknobs.jpg

I still have the chairs...

It did not compare to the 1997SPC/VB and 360V64 tone-wise, so it went bye bye. Still hurts however. The keepers: http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/33/33903/pages/385418/twinrics.jpg

I'm sure a 370/VP in BlueBoy would ease the loss.

*eyes checkbook

Cheers, Noel

webhead · Post by **webhead** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:15 am

Yeah, I always thought DG was a great color... I really would like to see a PurpleGlo..... That would be awesome... I'm not really fond of the Blue Boy, looks like bathroom tile.

trick_knee · Post by **trick_knee** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 2:39 am

Desert Gold bored me at first until the day I took a chance and bought my 4003/5 on the 'bay in DG. I guess it's like any of the RIC colors, you have to see them up close. I almost passed out when I first opened the case and saw how classy the gold color really looked. I too vote for PurpleGlo for 2005...I want that on a 4004/5!

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:53 pm

3 for PurpleGlo ...

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:38 pm

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:04 pm

I pray to all that is holy that I don't have to see a whole year's worth of purple Rickenbackers! Ack!!! The singlemost reprehensible color there is for a guitar.

Rich, dark hunter green. Silver sparkle. Persian rug print. Dark, rusty orange. Cobalt blue. Dark Land Rover yellow. Now we're talking.

Cheers, Noel

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:10 pm

and I own a DG 350V63.

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:23 pm

I think that a baby blue color is reprehensible, but we all have our own likes and dislikes, and I'd like a PurpleGlo!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:04 pm

Me too, John! Really deep (almost black) eggplant purple finish, maybe just slightly metallic so that it shimmers in the light.... Someday I'd like to get my 481 redone that way, if I can find somebody to do it....

"Persian rug print"? I'm having a little trouble imagining that one, Noel.... But the yellow would be interesting.... with black guards and TRC? No, maybe not on a Ric....

rogiercreemers · Post by **rogiercreemers** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:50 am

By the way, a new colour for the Rest of the World? When will we know? Can't wait, really...