Nice work. I’ve seen one McGuinn “overrun”, as I coined these 25 years ago, with a serial number from 1995- B8 9500. The rest I’ve seen are in the 1990-93 range.
The 4001CS in the RIC poster is my bass which I “intercepted” when it was on its way back to California after the Jan 1991 Frankfurt Music Messe. A friend heard about the announcement of a Chris Squire Ltd Edition and as luck would have it we had a UK Rickenbacker office in Bury Lancashire just a few miles from me on the other side of Manchester so I rang for details. They said they had at their office the only CS built so far which had been on display at Frankfurt. I said “can I buy it if I ring Anne Mellor at AI Music Manchester?”. They said “OK but can you wait till the weekend as Chris Squire is going to pose with it for the official poster and Guitarist Magazine?”. I agreed and four days later I picked the world’s only CS up at A1 Manchester for £1199. A bargain! It had no certificate (they hadn’t done any at that point) and it was built in August 1990. John Hall said there was no prototype so I call in #1.
Nice work. I’ve seen one McGuinn “overrun”, as I coined these 25 years ago, with a serial number from 1995- B8 9500. The rest I’ve seen are in the 1990-93 range.
The 4001CS in the RIC poster is my bass which I “intercepted” when it was on its way back to California after the Jan 1991 Frankfurt Music Messe. A friend heard about the announcement of a Chris Squire Ltd Edition and as luck would have it we had a UK Rickenbacker office in Bury Lancashire just a few miles from me on the other side of Manchester so I rang for details. They said they had at their office the only CS built so far which had been on display at Frankfurt. I said “can I buy it if I ring Anne Mellor at AI Music Manchester?”. They said “OK but can you wait till the weekend as Chris Squire is going to pose with it for the official poster and Guitarist Magazine?”. I agreed and four days later I picked the world’s only CS up at A1 Manchester for £1199. A bargain! It had no certificate (they hadn’t done any at that point) and it was built in August 1990. John Hall said there was no prototype so I call in #1.
I remember drooling over the Pete Townsend model advert when they came out. I was always attracted to the Rose Morris models.
Good work, Andy. (Typo: 481JK)
Fixed, thanks! I should probably start paying you an editor’s salary… 😂🤣🤣
Great pictures and run down of my favorite guitars. Thanks Andy