Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

More celebrity instruments. These are ones we sold to the artist, and the information provided is taken from the original invoices.

Mike Anthony (Van Halen)

1957 4000 Natural #B7102 (Third 4000 bass built.)



4005-6 (6 string bass. Double Bound) JetGlo #GF3823 (Left the factory and sold to Mike in March 1990. Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection.Serial numbers on instruments from this collection represent the era they were started, but should not be used to determine month and year of manufacture.)

4005 Azure Blue #NL7442


Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick)

4001S/8 Prototype JetGlo #blank (Left the factory and sold to Tom in April 1990. Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection. This was the first 8 string solid body Rickenbacker bass. It has a mono jack plate with no serial number. At the time we determined that it dated to some time in 1974. Dot inlay. Bound fingerboard.)

355/12JL John Lennon Limited Edition JetGlo #E37685 (June 1990)

Transonic TS100 #144 (Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection. Sold to Tom in April 1994.)

Transonic TS101 #363 (Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection. Sold to Tom in April 1994.)

Transonic TS120 #464 (Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection. Sold to Tom in April 1994.)

Tom also bought one of the unsold stock 4005-8 string models, and the band bought nearly a dozen of the Transonic 200s from us, but I haven’t found the invoices on those, so I don’t have serial numbers yet.

I believe that Tom still uses a 4000 in the studio (along with his P basses and thunderbird)
Live of course he will be seen with Waterstones....
Eden.

weemac wrote:I believe that Tom still uses a 4000 in the studio (along with his P basses and thunderbird)
Live of course he will be seen with Waterstones....
Eden.

Tom’s got a really nice bass collection, as you’d expect. We sold him the Hofner he used on Can’t Stop Falling In Love, and a beautiful 1969 Fender pink Paisley Telecaster Bass, among other non-Rickenbackers. I did a lot of business with Cheap Trick in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I haven’t talked with Tom in a while, so I don’t know what he’s recording with these days...

Scott, as I recall we discussed Michael Anthony's 4000 when you were posting a few years back. I have a copy of a magazine article about this bass with the same pic taken by Jeff Veitch. I am happy to see you are back with us here on the forum.

ken_j wrote:Scott, as I recall we discussed Michael Anthony's 4000 when you were posting a few years back. I have a copy of a magazine article about this bass with the same pic taken by Jeff Veitch. I am happy to see you are back with us here on the forum.

Thanks.

I’ve been trying to get Jeffrey to allow me to market his images for posters, etc. He’s consistently turned me down, but I haven’t given up. That’s what I get for letting him keep the copyright on the images he shot for us.

route66guitars wrote:I’ve been trying to get Jeffrey to allow me to market his images for posters, etc. He’s consistently turned me down, but I haven’t given up. That’s what I get for letting him keep the copyright on the images he shot for us.

Unless Jeff's photographs were done as "work for hire", then he automatically is the © holder, legally.

jps wrote:

route66guitars wrote:I’ve been trying to get Jeffrey to allow me to market his images for posters, etc. He’s consistently turned me down, but I haven’t given up. That’s what I get for letting him keep the copyright on the images he shot for us.

Unless Jeff's photographs were done as "work for hire", then he automatically is the © holder, legally.

Because of our situation it was a little more complicated than that. He was a store employee at the time, and created the images during business hours for which he was paid his salary. We mutually agreed that he would hold the copyright, otherwise they would have belonged to me as owner of the business.

I own the copyright on many other images that were produced for books, magazines and auction catalogs. Those were all very definite cases where they were works for hire and licensed for one time use.

route66guitars wrote: 4005-6 (6 string bass. Double Bound) JetGlo #GF3823 (Left the factory and sold to Mike in March 1990. Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection.Serial numbers on instruments from this collection represent the era they were started, but should not be used to determine month and year of manufacture.)

Picture please.

sloop_john_b wrote:

route66guitars wrote: 4005-6 (6 string bass. Double Bound) JetGlo #GF3823 (Left the factory and sold to Mike in March 1990. Unsold Stock from John Hall’s Collection.Serial numbers on instruments from this collection represent the era they were started, but should not be used to determine month and year of manufacture.)

Picture please.

I don’t know that I have a photo of that bass. Mike picked it up within a day or so of my picking it up from the factory. I’m currently going through the archives and have found transparencies of some of the other instruments. I’ll be doing something with those pics once I get them cleaned up for publication (book, calendar, etc…)

route66guitars wrote:

jps wrote:

route66guitars wrote:I’ve been trying to get Jeffrey to allow me to market his images for posters, etc. He’s consistently turned me down, but I haven’t given up. That’s what I get for letting him keep the copyright on the images he shot for us.

Unless Jeff's photographs were done as "work for hire", then he automatically is the © holder, legally.

Because of our situation it was a little more complicated than that. He was a store employee at the time, and created the images during business hours for which he was paid his salary. We mutually agreed that he would hold the copyright, otherwise they would have belonged to me as owner of the business.

I own the copyright on many other images that were produced for books, magazines and auction catalogs. Those were all very definite cases where they were works for hire and licensed for one time use.

Given your explanation it seems you are the © holder.

I suppose I could litigate over a verbal agreement, except for a few things:

1) He’s one of my best friends,

2) He, and the negatives, are now in the UK, while I am in the US,

3) We had a deal, and I don’t try to get out of old agreements to make a few bucks. It’s a reputation thing...

I wasn't implying that you could do whatever you wanted. Of course, among friends there is far more than the law to consider. It is surprising that he is not interested in doing posters, however.

Additional images I shot of the 1957 4000 #B7102 (Third 4000 bass built) that I sold to Mike Anthony.

One of the 4005-8 basses from the factory 'found' collection. We sold it to Tom Petersson.

route66guitars wrote:

]

hmm, that's pretty wild---they simply took a six string guitar bridge baseplate and strung it up for bass. I assume the serial number was standard-issue then, right?