Toots Pic in Mojo

tblair · Post by **tblair** » Thu May 03, 2001 5:16 am

Anybody see the pic of Jean Thielemans in April's Mojo magazine (I think it's in the timeline portion). He's playing a Combo 400, but the guard is plastic rather than anodized aluminum- I'd never seen that configuration before.

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Thu May 03, 2001 10:07 am

Someone (Larry Wassgren?)mentioned this to "Toots" before. He said that he had it changed to plastic because of the reflection of the stage lights back into his eyes. Larry?

tblair · Post by **tblair** » Thu May 03, 2001 10:30 am

Ah-ha- that would explain it. ...actually, I just saw that info listed as a "Rickenbacker History Fact" elswhere on Peter's site.

The Combo 400 with the white guard is actually a different one than the one in the famous pic of him wearing the tux- at least it has a different truss cover (black instead of gold). I wonder how many Rics he actually had.