Guitar of the Day: 1967 Rickenbacker 325 Fireglo | Norman's Rare Guitars

Stay safe, be kind and hope you’re all well! Enjoy this new episode of #GuitarOfTheDay: Lemmo playing a 1967 Rickenbacker 325 Fireglo finish here at #NormansRareGuitars! For any questions you may have or price inquiries about this #Rickenbacker #325 #ElectricGuitar please give us a call at 818-344-8300. So what do you guys think of this #Rickenbacker325?
ALL GUITARS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE:
reverb.com/sho...
normansraregui...
EMAIL US AT: [e-mail]
GUITAR: 1967 Rickenbacker 325 Fireglo
GUITARIST: Michael Lemmo
/ michaellemmo
CAMERA GIRL’S VOICE: Jen
/ manalophoto
ALL GUITARS & SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE:
reverb.com/sho...
normansraregui...
EMAIL US AT: [e-mail]
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
/ normansrareguitars
/ allguitarnetwork
/ normansrareguitarscali
/ normansguitars
SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW OUR NEW PODCAST!!! podcasts.apple...

[@brianstrawser5695]

Just when I thought Lemmo couldn't get any better. Well done sir.

[@richardrich8010]

The boy is good

[@johnsennett1690]

Yea lemme isn't that like the Rick mr. Fogerty gave away he used not only Woodstock but royal albert hall then found by his wife she gave it to him on xmas one year? It had acme.in yellow on the head stalk he put a hotter pick up and took off whammy bar Bixby was it was roger mcguinn birds like my brother and violist cat I met and got to know we both loved the birds roger he told me lots of stories about the guys who were one of my favorite influences I was round 19 when we were at a place I miss Gainesville fla.Beatles had black Rick's a mates? What years are the damm that sounds nice lemmon sweet wtf your music you're not jackinround no wonder people are commin from miles around to hear you play at norms guitars with that special sound go go lemmon go!!!

[@johnsennett1690]

I wanna go to norms just to meet them when I get my settlement for songs I wrote recorded in tn. My supposed best friend and sister got the masters ran off man he got so many nice company's to give him so much free nice gear its sick I had got no pay going round with a nice dean but it had great problems I will come to norms and buy a nice guitar. From a nice bunch of people I was born in California that how I met Frank hannon from Tesla he wants to go thear as well man iam thinking bout that 1960 tele now lemmon you sound good man I loved that riff creative take care keep em commin

[@7775Kevin]

Finally a Ric demo by someone who knows how to play and knows how to get all the tones the guitar is capable of. I have two Rics and love them. Thanks for a cool video.

[@anthonyfurniss40]

I always appreciate people who can show some tone and feel in a guitar review instead of just shredding.

[@ardavansarraf2973]

John Fogerty really made that Fireglo famous too. It’s in tons of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Ya gotta put a nickel-cover Gibson PAF-type humbucker at the bridge, though! AND a Bigsby B-5!

[@vsmicer]

That's a Rosetti Rick - imported into and sold in England in the mid 60s, the only Ricks that have an F hole rather than a shark's tooth slash. Yes...I have a couple, and have had others. Lovely players.

[@timgroves3606]

Rose Morris ?

[@danielbrown8556]

@@timgroves3606 can't expect lemmo to recognise these details (lmao)

[@cuda426hemi]

Think your thinking of the Rose Morris ones for export - but there were non export F holed 325s and the F holes were either "one o'clock" or "two o'clock" (rare) - this one has the one o'clock F hole. There were some with no F hole 325s, too. 🎸

[@news603redux]

@@cuda426hemi Exactly, everyone thinks an F-hole has to be a Rose Morris - Ric 325's had F-holes for years.

[@chrisst8922]

No. That's a US 325 in fireglow with an f hole instead of no sound hole at all. The 1996 model, imported into the UK by Rose Morris in 1964 featured all black knobs. Rosetti is the current UK importer.

[@charlesdiaz8199]

When Lemmo said "You have that single F- hole which I absolutely love" 1:27 it sounded much better than the last time I used that line.

[@blakemcnamara9105]

And I Love Her played on the John Lennon Rickenbacker with chorus is a meta moment I didn't think I'd like.

[@michaelgonzalez7304]

John's actual '64 Fireglo Rickenbacker 325 is owned by Jim Irsay who is the owner of the Indianapolis Colts.

[@herman29958]

This guy Michael Lemmo is such an incredible guitar player. Everything he plays sounds great.

[@user-xj4ht9bv9r]

Awesome playing Lemmo, love the beatles guitars!

[@wheelzwheela]

If I had one guitar to have forever it would be that guitar in that color.

[@ericochoa25]

I love Lemmo’s take on “and I love her” I watched him play it on the j-160e over and over to learn it

[@caseykadlecek8966]

Every video becomes my favorite. Lemmos playing is so beautiful and knows exactly how to bring out the best out of every guitar. So inspirational as a guitar player.

[@freddaniel5099]

Mr. Lemmo has been on fire this week. It has been a great one for GOTD! Guitar happiness! 😊

[@TheRockyhockey007]

Luv the Ricks , such a very unique sound , and I luv the Beatles , they had some of the coolest riffs in rock history , immediately identifiable , such a talented group of musicians , and Lemmo doin it such justice . Great tone out of a small scale guitar , totally Rick , a fun GOTD , thanks guys.

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

My dream guitar - I never understood why John never really played the fireglo Rick. He only used it for a couple live shows while his black one was being repaired and immediately went back to the black 325. He was never seen playing the fireglo 1996 again and gave it to Ringo around 1968, who sold it a couple years ago.

[@joellebrodeur1015]

Probably because he liked jetglo. I personally don't like the F hole and fireglo on this model. Never did. Doesn't look right on such a small guitar.

[@julkitan3017]

Yeah that's true, seems he did not feel much connected to this instrument. His rickenbacker era was nearly "over" anyway, after nearly 5 years playing the 325, soon the Epiphone Casino turned to be his main instrument for the following 5 years, surely he wanted something different and new. He never appeared again on stage with one of his Rick, sadly. Although it's said he used his original 325 during double fantasy studio sesssions, in 1980.

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

@@julkitan3017 He did say in interviews that it was his most prized possession. I think he was just looking for a different sound.

[@seiyakan1380]

Such a heavenly tone from that neck pick up.

[@1rwjwith]

John Fogerty used this model on a lot of CCR tunes too. Born On The Bayou is the Rick 325 believe it or not.

[@jordanpearce8079]

Yes he added a Humbucker in the bridge and added a Bigsby(or maybe the Bigsby was already there)

[@Apo458]

@@jordanpearce8079 He added the Bigsby, a Sorkin bridge, the humbucker and wrote "ACME" on the truss rod cover

[@445sd]

1st record too ! rick all over

[@grantandersen]

Actually not quite because he recorded Born on the Bayou and most of the Bayou Country album on a 1967 Gibson ES-175 with two humbuckers All the parts that didn’t require whammy bar or could be tuned down. Yes he played born on the bayou live with the Rick but not in the studio.

[@davidkirkham6497]

@@grantandersenInteresting, how do you know, this?

[@zacharykarras6027]

Gotta love the jangle of that 60’s Rick! Lemmo really dialed back the clock in the best way possible. Thank you!

[@RichardCrews]

beautiful playing on that beautiful guitar...

[@JerryD314]

What a beauty! I have a Ric 350 Signature JL model. Full scale in Jetglo. Plays and sounds like a dream. Love my 620 Mapleglo too. I wish I would have held onto my 360 Fireglo I obviously am a Beatle and Rickenbacker fan. They have such a unique and sexy design and a great sixties vibe.

[@a456987]

Rickenbackers always make me think of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tom and Mike love those Ricks

[@mrpbody44]

Great job playing and great sound. I have 2 of these and I keep thinking about getting rid of them as I do not play them very often. But every time I pick one of them I write a really good song. Weird short scale makes you think a bit differently. I love those Rickenbackers and I have a number of them . They work well with pedals and an Orange amp.

[@toddflowers8052]

That sounds great Lemmo ! Ric's are cool AF ! Thanks Jen ! 😎🎸🤘

[@reymhd7655]

Gorgeous, an absolute dream guitar of mine since i was about 9, Lennon was just a badass

[@fuzzfrancis435]

John Fogerty has one as well with the Les Paul humbucker and bigsby. I have a newer 325 and I just love it.

[@tbeau6663]

Sublime

[@Wavez_World]

Lemmo the man! You gotta do a tutorial of the first song u played amazing!

[@leelossi1257]

Great sounding guitar played by a MASTER!

[@B2UBL0Wheeler]

Amazing playing. If there's another 325 or even a 335 showed off I'de like to see what you can do with some gain. I know those pickups will do some magic.

[@joermnyc]

The story I heard was that John bought this and Paul bought the Hofner 500/1 because they wanted to “look bigger” on stage, so smaller instruments. Plus Paul liked that the Hofner was symmetrical so he could flip it over to lefty without it being awkward. Reverb just did an article on the Beatle’s gear in Hamburg... some interesting stuff... apparently they never did finish paying for their famous guitars and amps before they left for England!

[@counterfeit1148]

He didn't flip it over, he ordered a left handed version since they didn't have one in the store

[@chrisst8922]

George said that and Lennon might have had the same attitude but McCartney has said that he'd have never operated like that.

[@roughcutguitars]

2 years passed but never too late to right some myths and misconceptions - or IS it??? That model was distributed in the UK for Rickenbacker by distributor Rose-Morris and had an f-hole to distinguish it from the standard 325s with no soundhole or the Ric 'Cat Eye' hole of the full size models. John's was given to him by the company in 64 and used as a touring back-up. He got his first Rick 325/Capri in Hamburg because like a lot of art school musicians he was into jazz and a favorite band was George Shearing, whose guitarist Toots Theilemans played Rics. This was one leftover from a trade show and so he snagged it on the spot.

[@stevehornshaw4478]

Always special. Great guitar. With your touch Michael u make that great guitar talk. Magnificent Thnx

[@Smagledorf]

Rickenbacker coming in this week with a fury! Nice guitar! However! Gotta do a Maton!

[@donaldholman9070]

Outstanding! Thank you...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@sipius22]

wow!

[@danielanderson2331]

5:45 Cool version of Love Me Do very surf like!!

[@darwar9269]

Norman should give you that guitar. Great job Lemmo!

[@billyrossi4661]

John LENNON is my favorite Beatle..🙂

[@DearDextra]

nah bro, Paul McCartney for sure. :) But John was a poet for sure!

[@Simbetam]

@@DearDextra well put

[@gabrielpearcey7564]

Harrison

[@thomasskoff4140]

Top 4 for sure

[@karadordarkraven]

Love the Depeche Mode shirt!

[@loudmouthnewyorker2803]

HAH! Just figured out it's Depeche Mode on his shirt. Lemmo going retro with the Beatles and then wearing New Wave with DP. Love it.

[@angusseletto1511]

Born and Raised in Brooklyn Haha......Hey Yo Lemme talk to Cooky Puss,where Cooky Puss at? Lemme talk to your supervisor......Gold

[@loudmouthnewyorker2803]

@@angusseletto1511 I'm gonna house you!

[@angusseletto1511]

Such good times for sure,it's great to know another Beastie Fan,and you're real Brooklyn Old School by the sound of it....Nice One....Maybe we can convince Michael to try some Beastie stuff,he'd nail it

[@loudmouthnewyorker2803]

@@angusseletto1511 For sure for sure, take care friend!

[@nostradamus1551]

Great Job, Wonderful ;) ;) ;)

[@AllGuitarNetwork]

This guitar is amazing!!

[@michaelkillman5537]

Mike you played good with this guitar like you do the fender jazz master and jaguar.

[@drtap1477]

Sue should buy him this one too LOL!

[@jerrytse1794]

i love this sound ， its very warm！

[@nbcali4033]

I love the playing. Also, crushing really hard on Lemmo. ☺😅

[@rexnavarro2918]

doot...doot...do..doot da do doot dah doot...Your own... personal... Lemmo... nice shirt! I saw Depeche Mode back in the day and Martin Gore would come out playing his Grestch...I believe it was a Gretsch 6120 at the time I saw them..pretty cool.

[@McDoinky]

I feel like it’s a really cool guitar

[@fshoaps]

John Lemmo?

[@HEADLINEZOO]

Great alternative renditions!

[@DatBoi-mo9vc]

That thing looks killer man

[@michaeldeangelo9421]

Awesome, thanks

[@franktaconelli9095]

that’s not the classic Beatles Ricky 12 & George Harrison, not John Lennon, was the primary 12 string player; Harrison’s original Rick 12, a 360 model with only 2 pickups, was a ‘64; the second production model ever made

[@rdm4952]

Your correct however in 1964 John Lennon ordered one of these as a back up to his 325 he only played it live in a handful of shows

[@Rick-Jangle]

@@rdm4952 he actually gave it Ringo after that and Ringo still had it in his possession up until a few years ago that I know of.

[@Disco_Eterno]

Nice sound!! Note: Put WD40 on the bike kickstand 🤭

[@AuCeVi]

This man is a legend. Guitar god. Keep it up dude!!!!!

[@bobbafet9377]

Damn it.... tasty playing !!!!

[@badtweed2087]

Beautiful guitar. Demo is nice but would be better if you played contextual examples of how Lennon or John Fogerty used them for backing guitar parts to display the tones a bit better than playing those Beatles song melodies that have nothing to do with how that guitar was used on the original tunes back in the day.

[@Switsh]

Loved that guitar !

[@stewartkeyes2511]

Great playing!

[@123chooby]

Lemmo, love what you do, but can you give us just a little bit of each pup without all the pedals and verb so we can hear the wood?

[@joellebrodeur1015]

Agreed. Plus, don't play through a Fender amp.

[@TheIrishAmish]

That tone,,,,,,

[@stevenphelps1072]

I only ever seen john playing a black and white one

[@timothygarner2720]

Sick, man! Great test

[@arnabbhowmikYT]

Is that passenger song for neck pickup??

[@stevehardy3553]

Yep

[@musicfan8253]

That’s the vibe I get - “Let Her Go”

[@ritchiemolesso2884]

It's a 1967 Rickenbacker Rose Morris 1996 in a beautiful fireglo finish w/the Accent Vibrato. It's a shame that Lennon only played this guitar during the 1964-65 Christmas shows. John Fogerty played one in CCR.

[@timothyd9543]

I'm glad someone corrected this. Rose Morris means 'British made Rickenbacker because there was an embargo on American made products.' John gave this to Ringo who recently auctioned it off.

[@mikyasmaregie3067]

Lemmo is sooooo good

[@TheLogFella]

YESSSSS

[@stylianoscourtney6427]

For the next straturday can you do some mark knopfler songs pleaseee

[@erichutchinson5150]

I agree, we need to hear some mark knopfler tunes

[@stylianoscourtney6427]

Eric Hutchinson hell Yh my brother

[@jenspetersimonsen4235]

... slightly out of tune, but nice guitar nonetheless - and Lemmo is just the master slayer of guitars ;-D

[@bresley85]

4:32 The Beatles meets Durutti Column

[@Babillonia]

This guitar was Rickenbacker’s export model to the UK and was called Model 1996 I think.

[@chrisst8922]

And sold by the distributor Rose Morris...yes. But I don't think that this instrument is one of those. By 1967 the Rose Morris supply was sold and they all had black knobs whereas this one has the later chrome top ones, although that part has fallen off the blend knob. 325's could be ordered in fireglow and with f holes so I think this isn't an export model.

[@ivetoldyouonce]

Rose Morris...great work!

[@chrisst8922]

Not a Rose Morris instrument, they had black knobs.

[@joellebrodeur1015]

First thing I'd change are the knobs. Slap on the vintage black knobs.

[@amandamammana]

What’s the first song you played? BEAUTIFUL

[@mando3107]

Think it was 'These Days'

[@amandamammana]

Mando thank you!!!

[@NeverTrustNoah]

Very nice

[@wanderingsurf2842]

Fender: 138 Gibson: 123 Martin: 37 Gretsch: 13 Epiphone: 10 Rickenbacker: 10 Guild: 5 Paul Reed Smith: 5 Silvertone: 4 National: 3 Taylor: 3 Hofner: 2 Don Musser: 2 Coral: 2 Stromberg: 1 Vox: 1 Ovation: 1 Zemaitis: 1 Mosrite: 1 Harmony: 1 Whitehead: 1 James Trussart: 1 Music Man: 1 Modulus: 1 Bill Nash: 1 Duesenberg: 1 Charvel: 1 Kay: 1 Baldwin: 1 Knaggs: 1 Supertone: 1 D'Angelico: 1 Ampeg: 1 GOTD Cancelled: 1

[@wanderingsurf2842]

@@67foxcharlie accurate.

[@jayce82]

So many good memories dude! That was awesome!

[@ClemsonJohnson]

I can’t believe you did not mention John Fogarty. That is the guitar he played. Lennon’s was a little different.

[@joellebrodeur1015]

Lennon had four 325 models in total. His fireglo version was the export Rose Morris 1996. Fogerty played a similar one if not identical one.

[@thiendipham828]

#RickenRusday!!!

[@armand-san9441]

And John Fogerty play this guitar

[@lucianobeatlesiano6412]

John Lennon ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@gloombastic]

Must have complete silence in the shop when Michael is playing his guitars!!

[@rhyantoothbrush4417]

John Lemmo

[@StevesSlideandJazz]

Frankenstein pickups! Intonation?

[@audiophileman7047]

This is a very nice video!👍👍👍 It would be nice if you guys would tell us what Norm is asking for these guitars. Even just a ballpark value for these guitars would be cool! 👍💖🎸😎

[@frankboyd.]

My best friend had this guitar. Bought a $500 echo chamber so he could play the just released Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon. The neck was so thin it almost played itself. Byrds also used it. I

[@audiophileman7047]

@@frankboyd. It has a really nice sound for sure. Looked it up on Norm's website. He was asking around $10K for it. He probably sold it already to some Beatles fan.

[@ulrichdeboer9317]

Lemmo, plase record a solo album, like Pat Metheny "one quiet moment..." I ll buy it ....please !

[@wuine520]

cool

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Lemmo please release more original vids of your songs.

[@news603redux]

Not one word about John Fogerty and Acme. Lennon played his Rose Morris 1996 for less than a month, Fogerty is the most closely associated with that guitar. Gotta learn some history, son.

[@timsaalmann9048]

Silverchair - The Greatest View

[@halletscove6529]

Well done sir. Short scale length -- not an issue in your capable hands.

[@benceneubauer7439]

Hi guys! Please, anybody can tell what is the first song?

[@nielsvanweert2789]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@timlind3129]

Gorge

[@John-gq7um]

That Depeche Mode shirt tho

[@marcellinusmusic]

I got a question, Why not many guitarists using tricky guitars?

[@hrstrat57]

Want...

[@bendeguzszabo5524]

4:30 what is the effect's name?

[@Mattbuchanan71]

Anyone know what the first song is?

[@Jeffcatbuckeye]

Isn’t that technically a Rose Morris 1996 instead of a 325?….Lennon played both.