The Ric Virture

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:22 pm

The boys are eating healthy, right, Melissa? You have managed to do all the domestic stuff necessary to keep them fed and clothed? Then let the obsessions have sway! Full speed ahead!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:50 pm

Right....I can consider this a binge, but next week the "diet" has to start--but that will have its own sweet rewards!

It IS possible to have your cake and eat it, too, right, Paul? I know I'm being a bit cryptic, but I'm alluding to a color mentioned in another thread.... You may have to save that turquoise paint for yourself (or rather, for your next 325, LOL!) after all, if you can magically transform my slant-fret into a one of a kind....

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:00 pm

I can vouch for the power of The Addiction - I should be getting two more this week ...

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:05 pm

What are you getting, Gary?

And how many will that be for you now, anyway?

kog · Post by **kog** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:51 pm

The Ric Owner's Prayer:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our Rickenbackers - that our guitar rooms had become unmanageable
2. Came to believe that a Luthier greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of John Hall
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our gig bags
5. Admitted to John Hall, to ourselves and to our credit card companies the exact nature of our pickup winding preferences
6. Were entirely ready to have Ben Hall remove all these defects of binding
7. Humbly asked UPS to deliver our new orders
8. Made a list of all persons who had more Rics than ourselves, and became willing to swap guitar stories with them all
9. Made direct deposits to such guitar stores wherever possible, except when to do so would result in a wait of more than 18 months
10. Continued to take personal guitar inventory and when we miscounted promptly searched eBay for the missing guitars (mostly 360Fs)
11. Sought through posting and MP3 file-swapping to improve our conscious contact with Rics as we understood Rics, praying only for an increase in production and John Hall's ability to carry that out
12. Having had a musical awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry the Ric message to other guitar owners, and to practice our pentatonic scales at all hours of the night

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:19 am

Melissa, one of the new ones is a 4003S/5 SPC, essentially a five-string Blackstar (../5/65868.html"#EECD9C">

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:45 am

Yep, Gary, I would have to guess that your collection is probably one of the biggest on the Forum! Ric addiction has definitely set in.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:50 am

Gary: Thanks for making me feel relatively sane. I just realized that I currently own (32) guitars and only (13) are Ricks. I was feeling a bit guilty, but now you have put things into perspective for me. Thanks so much! Let's see what's out there on Ebay...

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:44 am

The action on my 4001 is just great!
I love that bass so much any other bass I play feels like a piece of firewood.
The neck on my 360v64 is somewhat too narrow, which keeps me from being even more addicted to it.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:19 am

Gee Wim, I guess it would be impossible for you to play a 320 series guitar, if a 360v64 is "somewhat too narrow" a neck!

Randy, the 42 are just the Rickenbackers ... there are about 12 others, too.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:24 am

So Gary, of all the Rics in your vast collection, what one is your absolute favorite? Give all the details here about its personality! (That was how this thread got started, right?)

I think that maybe your collection is second only to John Hall's....

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:28 am

Ow sorry, because of my limited knowledge of English I missed the point of the thread somewhat.

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:34 am

No, I don't think you missed it, Wim.... after all, you were just talking about the action of your bass, and the narrow neck on your 360--that's all a part of it!

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:46 am

If I had to describe the personality of my 2 Ricks ; both are cats.
They do whatever they feel like, and I just love it.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:01 am

Gary: My collection is suddenly seeming very inadequate...time to do some shopping!