Sunday, July 22, 2012

My New Rickenbacker Bass Guitar!

Paul McCartney's Left Handed Rickenbacker Bass
My oldest son, Stogie Jr, claims he has bought me a present:  a brand new, Rickenbacker bass guitar in "FireGlo" finish (a beautiful, cherry red color).  I love Rickenbackers, as my father (who was in the music business) sold them for years, and in fact sold two to the Creedence Clearwater Revival (back when they were still calling themselves "the Golliwogs.")  One of those was a Rickenbacker bass like the one I am going to get, also in FireGlo.  I even helped my brother "Bro" adjust the neck on that bass while Stu Cook, the new bass owner, and Tom Fogerty (John's younger brother) stood by watching.

Paul McCartney owns the same bass, which he sometimes plays instead of his familiar Hofner bass.  Paul was given his left-handed version by the head of Rickenbacker when the Beatles first came to New York in 1964.  (Actually, a local radio station, who was interviewing the Beatles at the time, bought it for him, as well as a new black Rickenbacker six string for John and a Fireglo 12 string guitar for George.)

With these bad economic times, I had given up hope of ever owning one myself, but my son wants to do something for his old man before the latter croaks, so he bought a brand new Rickenbacker 4003 bass off of E-Bay that he plans to give to me.  That is, unless he falls in love with it himself and decides to keep it, at which point I will take him out of the will (just kidding).

Anyway, here's the bass, in the embedded video.



If you so desire, you can see a demonstration of the options of the Rickenbacker 4003 here.

23 comments:

Always On Watch said...

CCR! Well, that really brings back some great memories! Didn't know them as the Golliwogs, though.

Congrats on your gift, Stogie!

Stogie said...

Thanks, AOW.

Stogie Chomper said...

Thanks AOW! Yes, they were calling themselves the "Golliwogs" before they became CCR. You can google it. They were one of the greatest Rock groups to ever play -- right up there with the Beatles, the Stones, and the Eagles.

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