Ric Sighting on Dragnet

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 6:56 pm

A guitarist interviewed by Joe Friday was playing a left-handed 330 FG.

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:49 am

And you know it's realistic because it was at a Guitar Center, and every GC always has plenty of left-handed Rickenbackers.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:49 am

I watched my tape of that episode last night and have these corrections to the comments above:

(1) the location of the scene in which the 330 FG appears was not a Guitar Center, but rather a recording studio

(2) the view of the guitar was of a mirror showing the character being interviewed by the detective, not a direct view, so what was seen was the reverse image of a right-handed instrument

I might not have caught these subtleties without the benefit of 'instant replay'.

I will see if I can capture a couple of still shots from my tape and post them in the next few days. I also caught on tape a 4001/4003 Walnut (solid brown, not burst) on an episode of Emeril, so I'll see if I can get some stills of that, too.

squid · Post by **squid** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:45 pm

Not totally on point with this thread, but I've got another Ric sighting to report. There's an arts channel here in Canada called Bravo, and tonight they showed a program called "John Kay: On a Magic Carpet Ride." Naturally, there were a few 381's on display throughout the show. The thing that got me was that the most recent footage didn't seem to show John with a 381JK. Instead, he seemed to be using a plain old Jetglo 381v69. Maybe those silver guards look paler under studio lights? I got some perplexed looks from the dog & my girlfriend when I spotted the 381's and started jumping up and down shouting, "Look, look! There's my guitar." What a nerd, eh?

36012 · Post by **36012** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:39 pm

I caught a pre 63 360 on the tonight show about a year ago.Talk about a nice surprise.