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I spotted the 4001 on the first video below on a BBC programme about disco music on tv this week. I'm always interested to see Rickenbackers used in different styles of music, and especially funk.

Cool find! Thanks for posting the vids!

Nice. The bass looks like about a .... '72?

The music is recorded - the vocal is not - a great performance there by Patti LaBelle.

Almost certainly a late '72. No tug bar, full-width inlays that might be the older sparkly type, but the giveaway is how the teardrop of the pickguard goes over the binding near the inputs (see 1:00 of the second viddy). Smaller body size + no tug bar = late '72.

I remember trying to figure out who the bass player was the first time the 2nd video was posted (nice to see it again!) but I struck out.