Fender home movie 1957

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Fender home movie 1957

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Check out this vid (Link) This is a long video,go to 24:00 to see trade show in 1957. at about 27:00 you can see the Rickenbacker booth.Chet Atkins at the Gretsch Booth at around 29:00.

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Some nice Rickenbackers in that film. Richard Smith said they were experimental models.

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these two Combo 400s ?

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Those look like standard JG C400s from here. The one- off archtop is still in the RIC "collection", and I believe the strange semi-cutaway electric was a one- off, too, though it seems to have gone underground.

I've always been intrigued by that M-series amp with the 8" speakers. A neat idea!
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Thats pretty cool!
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I wonder if one of these was John Fallon's Combo 400?

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I watched this the other day. Amazing footage. Both of the factory and then the trade show. It made me want to make some home movies.
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