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I'll agree to that. Confluences! Photo sessions for the book! Talking with players, collectors, and good friends. Many of them have slipped away. Time! Flowing like a river.

It happened. Don't know how many came out of the factory, but at least this one did:

Looks to me to be a rebuild or a "tribute" to a Rickenbacker. The bound body shouldn't have the dot fingerboard, the five-piece bound headstock is non-standard, etc. That's not to say that it isn't a real Rickenbacker. It may have been an experimental build at the factory, or it could have been ...

Maybe the wood used on these older basses was "better" - more stable, denser, different species or sub species, harvested from a different area, better growing conditions over time - lots of variables there. Now, if you've changed the rods after years of apparent stability, you've changed the ...

It's not the rods that need adjustment. It's the wood. The rods are simply the tool to make the adjustment to the wood. The older instruments that have never needed adjustment have stable wood. No seasonal variations in temperature and humidity? Likely the wood isn't going to expand or shrink. No ...

That was shot on the couch in the lobby of the hotel where the SoCal Rickenbacker Confluence was taking place, Saturday August 25, 2007. I remember the TVs in the bar had coverage of Hurricane Katrina going on. That's where I met you, John Hall, Dane Wilder, Gary Clausen and many others. I shot ...

Here's the picture I took of Kenny's refinished 4005 back in '05, I think. It's a deep dark translucent green but looks almost black in photos:

Kenny, do you still have your green one?

Here's a closeup of the headstock of an actual 4001C64S for reference.

A little clarification on the matter. There wasn't a bass called the "4001S" in price lists/catalogs until 1981. While the down-trimmed, dual pickup option was available in the '60s, most of the basses made this way were made to special order and mostly for Rose-Morris. It is indeed just a 4000 bass ...

While there are no absolutes when it comes to Rickenbacker manufactured instruments, it is unlikely that a bass of that vintage would have been originally fitted with that fretless fingerboard. I think that was done by a previous owner. You don't see many early fretless Ricks, but the later ones I ...

You have no business touching it at all! Unless it's yours!

Every bass is going to sound a bit different from any other bass. There are SO MANY variables at play, especially on what we hear on a recording or during a live performance. Consider: Wood - species, density, thickness, humidity, temperature. Strings: Flat wound, round wound, something-in-between ...

Thanks for the book plug, too!

Jeff Scott: Original Gangsta!

Yeah, no.