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I love my Mitch Easter inspired AZ. 1966, though.

From this:



To this (toasters, tailpiece and electronics are original - sorry for the size difference):

OK. As much as I love blue, I've never had a blue Rick. It's the only color that the traditional orange-y bubinga is just too much contrast. Maybe with the more brown-ish new chechen fingerboards....

Carla Olson of theTextones, played a 620 blue with C.B. binding.
(Richard R Smith Rickenbacker book) page 155 .

Lest we forget:

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blue330 wrote:Ah, they can take it. Colleges always want to have outdoor shows in the early spring, which seem to cause bad weather. Well, they used to, I don't know if the kids go for rock shows anymore... I'm pretty sure my Azureglo 330 has been snowed on more than once, and it's fine. It also spent the night in the van during winter tours for years. It looks almost new, still!

Mitch is the reason my friend Mike and I each bought Azureglo 360 WB models; we both watched the "Every Word Means No" any time it aired on MTV, and of course he was playing it when we saw Let's Active open for Echo and the Bunnymen at the Hollywood Palladium in April of `84. Killer show!!!

Thanks again for the inspiration, Mitch.

I also have the Blue Boy, of course.

paologregorio wrote:Mitch is the reason my friend Mike and I each bought Azureglo 360 WB models; we both watched the "Every Word Means No" any time it aired on MTV, and of course he was playing it when we saw Let's Active open for Echo and the Bunnymen at the Hollywood Palladium in April of `84. Killer show!!!

Ah, similar story, different coast. I saw Let's Active open for The Bunnymen in New York City. Also loved the blue Ric in the "Every Word Means No" video. Took me 25 years, but I finally got me a blue Ric.



Mitch Easter's blue Ric was the clincher for me in getting one, but the weird thing is it was The Beatles and their blue Rickenbacker that was the first time I thought a blue Ric was cool. Beatles had a blue Rickenbacker? Yeah, to me they did. An early time I saw HELP! on TV I guess the picture tube was kind of shot and to me the Ric played during "Another Girl" looked brilliant blue. Man, I sure thought blue Rics were cool after seeing that.

On an old, shot TV this Jetglo looked blue. Now with big screen HD TVs you can tell what gauge string is on that guitar!

I came into my MID by default and love this bass. It gets played out at least 3 times a week and not a night goes by where it doesn't receive a compliment or two.

Man, that blue bass is nice. If I were to get a Ric bass, that Midnight Blue would be tough to say no to.

Here's my 660 Blue boy, how could anyone not like the blue and gold combo?

My November 1984 built, Azureglo Blue 365 WB, with original 12K, factory-installed "hot" toasters. Of course, I like Blueboy as well....

Hey, Rock Ferguson! Maybe I was just hanging out at the wrong music stores, but in the mid-'60's I never saw a new Ric anywhere in San Francisco. I saw lots of guys in local bands playing them--the bass player in the first rock band I ever saw live (the Vibratoes, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, 1964) had a black 4000 bass, and a band called The Beas at the first freshman dance at Lowell High School in '65 had a lead guitarist who alternated between a Fender Jaguar and a Ric 360-12, and I certainly remember Paul Kantner with his--maybe they were going down to San Jose to get them! By the '70's, the guitars had fallen out of fashion, but the basses started showing up more--in '71, the bass player I was playing with traded his '62 Jazz Bass for a Fireglo Ric 4005--I think he got it at Moyer Music in San Jose. Those were the days, eh? A bit earlier, in "70, I'd picked up a used Ric 450--paid something like $150 for it. I never saw anybody with a blue Ric, though--I don't remember those showing up until the late '70's, maybe the first one I saw was the bass in that Playboy centerfold in what, '78?
If you were around Hayward in the '70's, do you remember a band called the Sagebrush Brothers? I was their lead guitarist. We were out of Berkeley, but we played up and down the East Bay between Berkeley and Los Gatos in '70-'71. I know we played in Hayward, but I can't remember where--it wasn't Frenchy's, though. The highest-profile gig we ever did was opening for Hot Tuna at the Chateau Liberte' up in the hills outside of Los Gatos.

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