Mike Rutherford/Genesis: A Rickenbacker 360-12 guitar owned and used by Mike Rutherford,

1974

Footnotes

Provenance:
This guitar was given to the vendor directly by Mike Rutherford, his lifelong friend. The owner, along with Mike, was in the formative Genesis band and had lent Mike his own Rickenbacker guitar, a 360-12V64, dating from 1964. When the friends left Charterhouse school, this original Rickenbacker stayed with the band and in Mike's possession.

Genesis, a now internationally prolific band, took the guitar on the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour of North America in 1974. On 6th December, at the Academy of Music in New York City, the band played the first of two back-to-back shows. That night, the group's guitars were stolen and immediately a replacement Rickenbacker was needed for the second gig the following night. According to Mike, on the 7th December he purchased the guitar offered in this lot from the famous Manny's Store.

The Rickenbacker purchased from Manny's was to be Mike's guitar with the band for a number of years. The accompanying letter from Mike reads: Trick of the Tail was the next album after Peter Gabriel left and the first with Phil Collins singing. The album opened with a guitar riff which was played on this 12-string guitar - a song called 'Dance On A Volcano'. It was used on 'Wind & Wuthering'; and 'Then There Were Three'; 'Duke'; 'Genesis' and 'Invisible Touch'.

It was towards the end of the 1980s that Mike gave the guitar in this lot to the vendor to replace the original, stolen Rickenbacker borrowed from their school days. It has remained in the vendor's possession ever since.