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My old band from the 60's Meddy's People are on ebay. It's too bad all of our singles did not sell for this price...................

Obviously I was a Rickenbacker artist.

http://cgi.ebay.com/MEDDYS-PEOPLE-SUBST ... 634.c0.m14

Brian what rics have you got at the moment.What was the first Rickenbacker you bought?

Hi Scotty,

My first was a 1961 375 FG exactly like the one in my avatar. I bought that from San Franciso Pawnbrokers in Vancouver BC for $175.00 in 1966. My second was a 1964 360/12 FG (NS) That I also bought in 1966. I don't recall what I paid for that guitar.

I currently own 5 Rickenbackers. Three guitars and two basses. They are listed in the registry.

So from a time perceptive were rickenbackers then (a million years ago in the Jurassic period) quite hard to get or were they quite accessible?
Also are you still in contact with the other band members?

Yeah.............go ahead rub it in. I am older than dirt to some people I suppose. Back on topic. They were hard to find Scotty. I see some of the old band members every once in a while at weddings and funerals mostly.............what a thought.

Wow, that's some fair bit of scratch! Pity you wouldn't be pocketing any of that when it sells. It seems the artists usually get the fuzzy end of the lollipop ultimately, unless they are a huge name.

I have a video of Ansel Adams wherein he talks about photographs of his such as Moonrise, Hernandez that he sold for $25 back in the day that was being sold at auction for $48,000. Not a penny to him! This was back in the late '70s to early '80s, so now the selling price may be closer to or perhaps (most likely) over $100,000.

Well its the same when MJ passed over look at how much his merchandise rose hrs after the event.Incidently have you still got all your vinyl Brian?


Reading back over the last comment i know it appears full of sarcasm but it actually for once isn't.

All our original vinyl is present and accounted for. I even have a set in my Wurlitzer Centennial 2000 too.

Like this one:

Brian, we were just talking about Meddy's People on Tuesday and the records you made. Interestingly eerie that one pops up on the 'Bay!

johnallg wrote:Brian, we were just talking about Meddy's People on Tuesday and the records you made. Interestingly eerie that one pops up on the 'Bay!

Yeah its funny how the world turns and spits out an auction of one of the records that was a subject of our discussion John. A very strange coincidence.