Help! LF 1984 price list . . .

Modern years of Rickenbacker Guitars from 1984 to the present

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Re: Help! LF 1984 price list . . .

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bassduke49 wrote:. . . to fill in details for my very short (2-page) chapter on the mysterious 4003SB "vintage" bass. Anyone have a 1984 price list? All I need to know is if the 4003SB is even listed, and if so, what was the price. I have page 2 of the 10-1-84 list, but no listing of the B models on it. Small details, but I'm trying to be thorough.

TIA
Paul there is a 1982 4003 SB up on Ebay this week. (Auction 290551244672)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3D1&_rdc=1

SN is Vi2426 from September 1982.
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Re: Help! LF 1984 price list . . .

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Hmm, I thought the B series basses had the shedua strip down the neck. :?
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Re: Help! LF 1984 price list . . .

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jps wrote:Hmm, I thought the B series basses had the shedua strip down the neck. :?

From looking at the one pictured in the advert announcing the B series you would seem to be correct!

But I have a feeling that there was not much design consistancy - John Hall has said that the whole B series was a poorly conceived marketing disaster that happened while his father was under going medical treatment and before he rejoined the company in 1983...

I think the real B series instruments are from mid 1982 (the ad came out in late spring I think) to the late spring of 1983...

The stereo outputs on what was originally a mono bass is but a case in point...

Course in the absence of more examples it is hard to say... The only B series instrument I ever saw in person was a 1982 320B at Long and McQuades in Toronto circa the fall of 1982.
Brian Morton
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 MG 450
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
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