Rickenbacker 330 (White, ex Paul Weller)

Model: Rickenbacker 330 (6-string)
Color: White
Year: late 1970s - early 1980s
Used in...

- 1997-1999

- originally owned by Paul Weller

- featured in the video of Don't Go Away

- featured in the performance of D'You Know What I Mean? (July 1997) and Who Feels Love? (July 2000) at Top of the Pops

- played live in Wonderwall (1997 & USA mini-tour 1999)

- played in the cover of Carnation by The Jam

- maybe used during the recording sessions of the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Details

This Rickenbacker originally belonged to Paul Weller, who had been using it with The Jam in the early 1980s.

He then gave it to Noel for his 30th birthday in May 1997:
"I also use a Rick that Paul Weller gave me for my 30th. He gave it to me and said it's the one that he wrote Town Called Malice on. He gave it to me, and I'm like "Oh, thanks man, that's f----- top of yer." And then he leaves and I just am like "F------ Yes!" It's got a pink P in the middle of it, I use it for all of the jangly stuff on the records."1
So, it can be speculated that this guitar was also used during the recording of the 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

For live performances it was replaced with another less valuable Rickenbacker 330 (the Mapleglo one). Weller's white 330 was never seen after year 2000, but it was dug out and photographed around 2021 for a book about Rickenbacker guitars.2

In some websites & forums it is wrongly stated that this guitar was gifted to Noel by Johnny Depp.
Stickers

Originally applied by Paul Weller:

1. a pink "P" between the two pickups;

2. the writing "the total look!" in the upper horn, cut and pasted from the fanzine December Child 3.3

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  1. from P. McCormack’s Rickenbacker fansite (year 2000) ↩︎
  2. Rickenbacker Guitars: out of the frying pan into the fireglo – Phantom Books, 2021 ↩︎
  3. https://everpress.com/the-total-look-tee ↩︎

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