RICKENBACKER INCORPORATED, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, 1976

Details

A SEMI-HOLLOW-BODY DOUBLENECK ELECTRIC GUITAR, 362⁄12-6, FIREGLO
RICKENBACKER INCORPORATED, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, 1976
The logo RICKENBACKER and MADE IN U.S.A. applied to both truss rod covers, RICK-O-SOUND applied to the input jack plate, stamped PJ and 6920 at the input jack cover, the chambered body of maple, each laminated maple neck with padouk fingerboard and pearloid inlay, together with a hardshell case bearing a label inscribed RICK. DOUBLE NECK
Length of body: 14 1⁄8 in. (35.8 cm.)

Literature

J. Marr, interviewed by T. Bacon, ‘Johnny Marr Interview’, 17 August 2009. http://tonybacon.co.uk/johnny-marr-interview/.
J. Marr, Marr’s Guitars, Thames & Hudson, London, 2023, p. 172.

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Lot Essay

Johnny Marr purchased this Rickenbacker doubleneck from Pete’s Guitar in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the early 1990s and used it on Electronic’s third studio album Twisted Tenderness, released in April 1999. Interviewed by guitar historian Tony Bacon in 2009 for the Rickenbacker Electric 12-String book, Marr proclaimed: Double-necks sound incredible, because you have all of that body mass. A giant table-top. One of the best double-necks I’ve ever heard is a Rickenbacker. It’s just god-damned unwieldy.

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