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We European people don't celebrate it, but happy Thanksgiving to you all friends from the American continent !

Small contrib. '03 4003 JG.

I would have more than pleased to post other pics of me playing RICs (especially the old 4001's I used to own through the 70's and 80's -i.e. the '77 4001JG and the '79 4001FG), but all of my photographic memories have perished in a case of arson, back in 1994.

To be more specific, THIS is what I call Fireglo.



(found somewhere on RR via Google)

Thanks Paul. Is it the photo or what ? But I think the current Fireglo is a bit too "brownish" and not "reddish" enough.
For me, the real Fireglo is somewhere between the current one and what AtomicPunk calls "Clown-Glo". Isn't it ?

Yes Javier, it's often very hard to find the right partners to play the right music. Good luck !

Rikk, I sold it a long time ago. But I guess it has yellowed a bit. I am no more in contact with the guy I sold it to.

Oops !... Of course, when I say "I've been expecting for one", I'm talking about the 8er, not the tsunami

These 8ers are able to start tsunamis. I've been expecting for one for a long time. Maybe one day...

Thanks a lot! I'm a bit frustrated right now. The band I played in split up almost a year ago and I haven't found the right bunch of guys to start playing with yet. I really want to start gigging again! Those basses have been in my bedroom and way too long!

Wishing you'll find music mates soon ...

As an unbiased collector, I'd say Fireglo is just about the only colour that can be truly said to be unique to Rics, you can get any other colour from the others, no one, I mean no one, (with the the exception of one of our own (Paul Wilczynski) who does who can do a wonderful Fireglo, and Minkglo ...

They look like honey ! Very sweet basses, Javier !

Thanks Mark ! Yes, these white RICs with BT look amazing.

Thanks Joey for this information. I did not know that. But it's true I had already noticed there were some variations around Fireglo from an era to another.

Pic from 2001, in my garden, with my '99 4003 WHT/BT.