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

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

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.

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?

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