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The 325-12 was shipped to their manager’s London office, and actually went missing for a while while in transit.kiramdear wrote:Here's his 325/12. I've seen a picture of John Hall holding this guitar before they (he?) handed it to John.
It is an internal Radio-Tel document with the heading 'New Product'....described as a "4000, +1 pickup, (Fire), left-handed"...#DA 23...verbal (Hall)..."route66guitars wrote:If the bass appeared on a Radio-Tel invoice (sales), not a Rickenbacker invoice (manufacturing), that meant it had already left the factory and been delivered to the sales office by Rickenbacker, right? This pretty much guarantees the bass was completed, as in 1964 they weren’t in the same building. I’ve never seen the Radio-Tel invoice for the 4001S, who does it list as being the Customer? There are photos in RIC’s archives of the hotel room where F.C. set up the display for the Beatles, and the 4001S was there. Maybe John or one of RIC’s employees on the forum who had access to the Radio-Tel invoice will post the image of the hotel room display.
Thanks. I’ll pull out the book and have a look. I’ve been looking for the image of the hotel room setup, but so far no luck.leftybass wrote:It is an internal Radio-Tel document with the heading 'New Product'....described as a "4000, +1 pickup, (Fire), left-handed"...#DA 23...verbal (Hall)..."route66guitars wrote:If the bass appeared on a Radio-Tel invoice (sales), not a Rickenbacker invoice (manufacturing), that meant it had already left the factory and been delivered to the sales office by Rickenbacker, right? This pretty much guarantees the bass was completed, as in 1964 they weren’t in the same building. I’ve never seen the Radio-Tel invoice for the 4001S, who does it list as being the Customer? There are photos in RIC’s archives of the hotel room where F.C. set up the display for the Beatles, and the 4001S was there. Maybe John or one of RIC’s employees on the forum who had access to the Radio-Tel invoice will post the image of the hotel room display.
The document was copied and published in 'Beatlesgear' by Andy Babiuk, and along with the bass being on the the ticket there are some amps and cabinets as well.....possibly the amps made the trip to NYC as well.....
This question goes on and on. When I interviewed DeMarino, he swore up and down that after he refinished V81 he asked for and kept the tuners, which were in turn stolen from him, and replaced the original pickguard (also a gift from Lennon) with another gold one. He planned to auction off the original pickguard, but I've never heard anything further about that. Yet every subsequent photo shows a white pickguard. So go figure. The interview:wj350 wrote:Maybe, but he was wrong about that freaking white pick guard.route66guitars wrote:... They’re your memories, but it was his *guitar*. End of story.
