Entwistle with 4001S

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:41 pm

This photo is probably from somewhere else on this site, but what the hell....

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:30 pm

Nice fireglo finish.

henny · Post by **henny** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:43 pm

It's an RM1999, isn't it?

marc67 · Post by **marc67** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:10 am

Yes. Notice the finger rest. Looks like my V63...

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:26 am

look kinda like this, a tad bit darker.Im sorry i feel like JPS

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:40 am

All this talk around here lately about original 4001S's and V63's is giving me agonizing GAS pains.

Thanks all. Thanks alot!

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:41 am

Entwistle's 4001 ended up with a bowed neck ... he copped a bad attitude about Rics after that ...

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:41 am

Roto's I take it?

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:59 am

If he new what he was doing or had somebody around that did it could have been fixed.

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:06 am

I like that photo. Are there any more? Does anybody know if he used that bass to record My Generation? I hope so!

pekka · Post by **pekka** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:17 am

"he copped a bad attitude about Rics after that ..."

But he later stated that "Blonde Precision necks are my favorites; those and Rickenbackers. Thunderbird necks tend to be too thin down at the bottom. I get my fingers all tangled up when I go to the first fret."

He was of course speaking of his famous Fenderbirds. And he liked the 4005, at least he played "The Seeker" with it.

Jeff, My Generation was recorded with a Fender Jazz strung with La Bella flats.

This is a great Entwistle info page:
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment ... egear.html

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:25 am

"My Generation" is Fender Jazz with flats. After several attempts, and multiple bass purchases, with Dano Longhorns. He wanted the Dano sound but kept breaking strings during recording and the shops didn't have replacement strings for the Dano, so he had to keep buying new Longhorns. After the third one he gave up and used the Fender.
A couple of nice 4005s in his book, not to mention the 8-string.

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:35 am

Edited after re-reading the previous post.

Cool that the 4005 was on The Seeker, I never knew that.

simonmole · Post by **simonmole** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:58 am

Hi Kenny and Pekka - if you're interested check out my collection in Bjorn's http://www.rickbeat website - I'm now the very proud owner of JE's old "seeker" 4005 (and I'm REALLY sorry I'm not setup to submit photos here yet!?!). it has a dead straight neck still (but I suspect quite cranked tight to compensate a set of John's standard gauge gold Maximas, since it showed a marked backwards shift when I removed them for a bit of TLC treatment), and is in fantastic condition...not all Rickenbackers left The Who in pieces!!!!!!

pekka · Post by **pekka** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:14 am

Simon, I checked out your collection...uh-oh, I don't know what to say! I almost forgot the Entwistle bass while looking at the others. Did you get the bass from the auction held after his death? A great piece of history.

And that 4004 8-string conversion is great! Maybe you should send a pic (and info) to www.12stringbass.net , I'm sure they'd be interested about it. I also liked the other 8-string you have, I'd do the same string reversion if I owned one.