Route 66 Guitars Rickenbacker Gallery

[route66guitars]

Rickenbacker has seen fit to have items featuring my images pulled from zazzle.com, where I have featured items containing images to which I hold copyright.

Until I can clear this matter up I won't be posting anything further to this, or any other Rickenbacker related forum. John Hall and I have had this discussion before, so this amounts to harassment. Rickenbacker does not own the rights to images of specific instruments, only to actual instruments which use their headstock or logo shape.

This is disappointing, but typical. He has never had his father's ethics.

[vintagemusicgear]

So I'm prompted to believe the story that the owner bought this new in the late 50's. Any ideas about the finish? Could this be the 1st fireglo?

[route66guitars]

So I'm prompted to believe the story that the owner bought this new in the late 50's. Any ideas about the finish? Could this be the 1st fireglo?

Unfortunately Rickenbacker didn't call the early finish FireGlo, only sunburst, so it would not be possible to determine this unless you had a list of all instruments produced in sunburst and physically located each one.

It's safe to say yours is one of the earliest to feature what is now called a FireGlo finish.

[1965]

Rickenbacker has seen fit to have items featuring my images pulled from zazzle.com, where I have featured items containing images to which I hold copyright.

Until I can clear this matter up I won't be posting anything further to this, or any other Rickenbacker related forum. John Hall and I have had this discussion before, so this amounts to harassment. Rickenbacker does not own the rights to images of specific instruments, only to actual instruments which use their headstock or logo shape.

This is disappointing, but typical. He has never had his father's ethics.

I haven't been to this forum in months, and it's really sad to come back and see this sort of thing. It's completely delusional to think that you can control what someone does with their own photos.

[route66guitars]

Rickenbacker has seen fit to have items featuring my images pulled from zazzle.com, where I have featured items containing images to which I hold copyright.

Until I can clear this matter up I won't be posting anything further to this, or any other Rickenbacker related forum. John Hall and I have had this discussion before, so this amounts to harassment. Rickenbacker does not own the rights to images of specific instruments, only to actual instruments which use their headstock or logo shape.

This is disappointing, but typical. He has never had his father's ethics.

I haven't been to this forum in months, and it's really sad to come back and see this sort of thing. It's completely delusional to think that you can control what someone does with their own photos.

Even though they have no legal argument, I don't have the money to fight it. So I guess it's on to the Fender and Gibson forums.

Hopefully the Halls will move on from owning Rickenbacker sooner rather than later, and the new owners can spend more time on building better instruments in a timely fashion, than raining on someone who almost single-handedly championed their instruments at the retail level when no one else knew or cared.

[winston]

I have locked this thread so it can settle down. Scott has indicated to me that he would like to post more images and so when he is ready to do that it will be unlocked again.

[admin]

Brian: Thank you for locking this thread. I would like to remind posters that the RRF should not be used to settle grievances or comment on disputes with other parties.