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....free ad...thanks Jim

Hey!!! I used to have some of these ads pasted to my bedroom wall. Does that mean I'm also "ancient"??

Signed:

- Methusela in Guam

To the best of my recollection, this was the ad I used as both an object of adoration and a goal to achieve. Cicra 1967:

.....more 12 string dreams....

I was shocked when I stumbled across this today when I was at BeastBuy shopping for a printer:



The image purportedly shows some custom luthier. . . I see a 650 colorado and a 650 Dakota. I wonder if RIC knows or cares about this?

Kingbreaker wrote:I was shocked when I stumbled across this today when I was at BeastBuy shopping for a printer:

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The image purportedly shows some custom luthier. . . I see a 650 colorado and a 650 Dakota. I wonder if RIC knows or cares about this?

I can't speak for the company, but, being that it is not a Rickenbacker advertisement, RIC probably doesn't care. I have a some songbooks by Hal Leonard that have Rickenbackers on the covers, and I have an old car ad from the 1960's that has a guy playing a Rickenbacker in it.

Most likely that there's just a lot of cool guys at HP who like Ricks...

Kingbreaker wrote:Clearly, that bass is a custom one-off.

4003cg - "collage glo"

More clearly, it's an instrument that doesn't exist except in Björn Gladwell's computer.

I guess the advert itself's somewhat older already, but this was taken today out of a german first edition 2013 booklet on George Harrison:

i cant see any of Ians photos? i see everyone else`s pictures?

Scott, I guess he deleted them as I only see "image" as well...

I like that one you found Werner but i feel using the text`While my guitar gently weeps`in a modern Ad is hanging onto a era that maybe is a bit out of touch with the modern consumer.Im probably wrong as i dont know what makes people these days pick up a Ric in a guitar store but i would have thought that its maybe time to distance themselves from The beatles albeit probably the best band in the world ever
Surely Rickenbacker dont need or want the association of the Beatles to hang around their necks forever do they? but if they did who the hell am i to say anything
Mind you on retrospect id say that maybe a very large amount of people who pick up a Ric in a guitar store more often than not play a Beatles riff.Didnt Clapton play the guitar on that track anyway

scotty wrote:Didn't Clapton play the guitar on that track anyway

That is what's often said based on the playing style one can hear... anyway, shouldn't people play a Fender for that song as well?

Ben pointed out that the guitar in that ad's a recent one as it has the oval sticker. The ad's by M&T , the new german importer which is mentioned in barely readable footer print in the ad.

doctorwho wrote:... and I have an old car ad from the 1960's that has a guy playing a Rickenbacker in it.

Here's a bad scan of it:

Not sure why my photos vanished.
They are on Facebook.

I will re-link them.