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Please forgive me for a related veer.

In 2017 we started a Renaissance cover band. Up here in Portland, Maine. Called Northern Lights. Whodathunkit?

Our band leader somehow had some acquaintance with Annie Haslam who extolled our singer (HUGE praise) and told us that we were the first Renaissance ...

It sounds like someone here should buy my already modded 1973 4000 and convert it?

Howard Hughes!

That must have been a PITA when you had to force the lock to welcome your new arrival when it finally arrived.

To everyone here:

Doesn't it depend on how the poster will use the bass and case? I have original cases on my two current Ricks. But they go into a flight case of sorts if they are going ...

What a lovely beauty!

The soap does help.

I've been dealing with this issue in the last few days. The Schaller website and many online folks proclaim that the new Schaller strap locks are totally backward compatible.

I beg to differ. The strap locks ARE. They'll work on your older Schaller posts. But that's not true in reverse. The older ...

As Mr. Teeder indicated, you can reset the neck. Good for people like me who are crazy about adjusting down the action.

This one screams modded 4000 to me, what Dirk said. One of the fundamental things I like about Rick basses is the resonance of the neck thru body, but the way this one is priced indicates that they consider the set neck a feature, not a bug.


Having had to deal with some issues with body-thru ...

The artist was given full artistic liberty within strict boundaries and unyielding guidance! (How's that for some good legalese?)

Actually, I wanted some magical kind of images and she delivered nicely. But there was a Generation Gap 101 moment when I commented on some Peter Maxx imagry and she did ...

A doppelganger!

Acadia in Portland, Maine.

Sorry for the thread resurrection. But I was looking for this photo after a PC change and knew it was here.

That's my sorta-rare two speaker version Versatone. Thus the two mics on the cab. It sounds amazing.

I leave it at a local recording studio for them to carefully use. Based on the notion ...

I’ve never understood why people think Jazz bass necks are so slim. At the nut they are, but as you go up the neck? Not really. I’ve played hundreds of Jazzes over the past 4 decades and just don’t think of them as slim at all, but I will add I don’t spend much time on the first few frets, I play ...

I was waiting for the more august and revered members to pipe in before commenting.

I was given small hands which triggered a years-long quest to find the best small profile necks.

My conclusions from a limited sample size were, thinest to slighly fatter: Shadow, Tuxedo/Blackstar and then others ...