RICKENBACKER INCORPORATED, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, 1966

Details

A SEMI-HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, MODEL 335, MAPLEGLO
RICKENBACKER INCORPORATED, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, 1966
The logo RICKENBACKER and MADE IN U.S.A. applied to the truss rod cover, stamped at the input jack cover FL / 4248, the chambered body of maple, the laminated maple neck with padouk fingerboard and clay dot markers, fitted with a tremolo bar, together with a hardshell case
Length of body: 14 3⁄16 in. (36 cm.)

Literature

J. Gore, ‘Johnny Marr’, Guitar Player, January 1990, pp. 68-81.

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Lot Essay

Johnny Marr purchased this 1966 Rickenbacker 335 on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles during The The Versus The World Tour in August 1989. Marr used the guitar live on stage with The The in the early 1990s and in the studio with The Healers in the early 2000s. Whilst Marr named his Gun Metal Blue Strat (lot 60) as his main guitar with The The in a January 1990 interview for Guitar Player, he added: My other favourite guitars are a red '59 Gibson ES-355, a '59 sunburst Les Paul, a custom green quilted-maple Telecaster, and three Rickenbackers – my first 330, an amazing '66 wood-grain 330 (the present lot), and a 12-string that used to belong to Pete Townshend.

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