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Howdy,

Toots also blew harmonica on the Steve McQueen film "The Getaway" in 1972.

Respectfully,
Larry

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I think one of the guys in The Romantics played a 320 in the video for "What I Like About You". As "One and a Half" Hit wonders, they weren't bad (I'm giving "Talking In Your Sleep" credit as a half a hit).

Harley,

I think that was a Jet-Glo 330 in those videos by the Romantics. I'll leave myself a little room to wiggle; I COULD be wrong! After all, I haven't see one of those videos in over 20 years

Respectfully,
Larry Carroll

Larry,

You may be right but, in my minds eye (where everything looks great but the retrieval process ain't what it used to be) I keep seeing it as a triple pick-up. Maybe it was a 350?

I'd love to find a 320 of my own but here in Denver they're scarcer than hen's teeth and, even with Rickenbacker, I'm leary of buying without trying. Especially if it's used.

Back to the thread, didn't Ron Nasty play a 325 (along with his 610 British equivalent)?

Harley

This website has a pic of Randy Bachman and Chad Allan playing what looks to be 325's

The picture matches my recollection of Randy at least having a 325. I remembered thinking at the time that I saw him play a Ric "God that guitar looks awful small in his hands"

http://www.hillmanweb.com/gwchad.html

Lifted from the website.

"During this summer I was invited over to Chad's parents' house a number of times - a few times to study physics together which didn't work out too well as we spent most of our time discussing music - and another time after the lounge closed when he and Randy shared the excitement of showing off their new Rickenbacker guitars that had arrived from the States earlier that day. They were a tad disappointed in the instruments as they appeared to be 3/4 size guitars . . . much smaller than what they had expected. "

Right you are Brrian but the results appear equivocal.

Here are the 325s as you mention played by Randy and Chad.



And this looks to be a 365 or 375 with Randy and Chad on stage.

Gotta love those horned rim glasses. Very fifties looking. Hank Marvin move over.

Chad was and still is a great singer. I liked his voice. Burton though had star power, right from day one. Amazing man. Can't say as I love his voice but an amazing entertainer and a great keyboard player.

The second picture of Randy looks like a 360 with an accent vibrato dont you think?

Yes, I do except that in other photos a third pickup was evident and the ac'cent vibrato would make the model a 365 or 375.

Here's something Peter Randy could play any guitar and make it sound good. The secret to his sound (not his playing) it turns out years later was his custom Garnet Amp. Strange but true.

Randy in my mind is one the most underated guitarists ever. Never likely to be spoken of in the same breath as EC, Jimmy, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page or for that matter Eddie. But he can wail with the best of them. He can play any style flawlessly. I just wish he could sing.

Unless someone else has already mentioned it (I do not see it here and am surprised if no one has) and unless the video is not accurate, Wally Palmer (I believe he's the one) of the Romantics played a 325 on the Romantics "What I Like About You," including it's unmistakable intro. If so, outside of the Beatles it has to be one of the most memorable, if not the most recognizable, 325 appearances on record (Fogarty notwithstanding.) And it certainly sounds like a 325 (Marshall amp or not.) I saw the Romantics a few years back and he was playing a 330. Susanna Hoffs is holding what looks like a 60s vintage 325 on the cover of the Bangles first LP, All Over the Place, from 1984, when her look (and their sound) was more hipster underground pop girl than the petite sex kitten image of a couple of years later.

Oops..sorry. Now I see someone has mentioned the Romantics and it was a 320, not 325. I stand corrected.

dang.... if this dude held that guitar any higher, he'd choke himself to death.

Welcome to the forum Glenn. No one is perfect here so don't worry about posting incorrect notes. The guys here will keep you on the straight and narrow. In my short time on the forum I have been consistently treated very well.

Yeh strange way to hold a guitar Kent. Chad was actually a keyboard player/singer. He was not bad on guitar but Randy was obviously much better even back then.

The Searchers and Gerry Marsden used to sling their axes high too. I am not sure why. Personally I can't play like that.

I can't play anyway!!

Welcome from me too, Glenn.

Thanks for all the welcomes. Of course, the beatles played their guitars higher than most that followed them and they did alright, eh? Why did the axes fall so far in the late 60s? Photos of Dylan and the Band in the mid 60s, they had them pretty high, too. The music didn't get better with them down lower.