Mr Hall, got any of these sitting around still?

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:25 pm

Of course I mean the promo photos and not the basses.

route66guitars · Post by **route66guitars** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:30 pm

I have a signed one somewhere. What's going rate?

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:43 am

$6 on ebay. i've got his autograph as i've met him a few times. it's just a cool pic.

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:04 am

I wish there was a Ric poster that came with the 4004LK.

BTW Scott----if Sean doesn't want it and it is in good shape just email me a price......

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:30 am

These were tradeshow swag, from one of the American shows and several British ones. He sat in the booth and signed them between swigs of Jack Daniels and Coke.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:43 am

How did they get Lemmy to pose so nice? he isn't flipping anybody off ...

wints · Post by **wints** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:15 am

$6!!

Total Overkill....

marty · Post by **marty** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:40 am

What's the story with the bass on the left....I've seen it before and it looks like it's got a maple fingerboard.

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:44 am

The bass on the left is a Frankenstein one he put together (or had put together) some time back. Little carvings on the top, nowhere near as fancy as the actual 4004LK. The face of the guitar is a cap.

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:50 am

Kenny, the bass in the picture is the maple necked 4001 he got in the '70s, which he got for (I seem to remember) £80. If you look closely you'll see the skunk stripe. He said it was the only maple necked Rick he's ever seen; when he got it someone had ripped the frets out. Whether or not the fingerboard was original I don't know; possibly not. The pickup it's wearing in the picture is a copy of a T/Bird pickup (possibly made by Peter Cook), and the scratchplate (pickguard) was brass. It's been seen in many photos from the late 70s onwards, and also on a few videos (incl "I Got Mine" if I remember correctly); for a long time it was his number 2 bass; I think it became his number 1 when his original T/Bird equipped 4000 bit the dust, although it was later replaced by his 4004LK.