"When I was 17.."

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:18 pm

Happy birthday Nate!
Here's a pic of myself at about your age with my first Rick in the late sixties. This one had a horse shoe PU.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:19 pm

Hey, concert tickets were $10.50 here back in 1980 also! Then again, so was a quart of vodka.
I remember seeing Bryan Adams OPEN for Loverboy in '81 or '82! He put on a great show.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:21 pm

Do you still have that one, Ken?
A rare one for sure!

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:32 pm

Black Sabbath 72, Johnny Winter 70, Elton John 70, Humble Pie 70, need I continue? James Gang, Black Oak Arkansas, Steve Miller, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Jethro Tull. I'm just getting warmed up!

Just teasing, you young whippersnappers!

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:42 pm

I got my first Rickenbacker when I was 17!

This one:

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:10 pm

Long gone. It was the only Rick I bought new.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:43 pm

She'd be worth a pretty penny now!
The only new one I've ever seen was an FG 4003 back in '96 I think. I needed a backup to my 4000 & I was looking at Fenders. It was $1595 Cdn., but all I had was around $600, so I ended up with a refinned '71 Tele bass.

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:02 pm

Here I am at 17 in 1988 some paying college gig...'74 4001. The "young artist" text is my old singers doing from my old band's now defunct website.

byu · Post by **byu** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:32 pm

Happy B-Day Nate. Here I am at 17. 2 months before I turned 18.

Cheers,
Bill

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:17 pm

Here's me at 17... wish I still had that hair!

Here's me at 14... wish I still had that '63 Hofner 172!

philipharris · Post by **philipharris** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:32 pm

At 17, got my head kicked in, so all a bit vague up to that point. Never forgot how to play "Siberian Khatru" though!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:44 pm

At 17, I was . . . uh, a year younger than I am now . . . and frantically filling out college application forms! I did have my Ric to keep me company though.

rickinroma · Post by **rickinroma** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:04 pm

At the age of 17 I had my first rickenbacker 4001 bass..a 1978 fireglo one

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:00 pm

At the age of 17 I saw a Ric bass "in person" for the first time... it was an Azureglo. Until then I saw them only in pics or on TV. It took me another 11 years until I actually owned a Ric (a '73 Jetglo 4001).

Oh, and when I was 17, Hofners were about $100 and some times you couldn't give them away.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:43 am

Wow.. concert lists!
I've seen (in order)
Heart (yes, Heart!), Roger Waters, Kiss, Rush and Yes. Not that many, but the middle three were my favorites.

I've seen a couple Rick basses in pictures before I got mine. Notably McCartney's, Roger Waters', and Geddy's. Actually, I asked for a Rick before I could even play, but my dad said "They went out of business and are hard to find". LOL. Show's what he knows. Took me two years after I started playing to get my Jetglo 4001. It's my only bass now. I sold my others. The sounds produced by them were "inferior" to my ears. I played my 4001 and Dean Edge 5 string back to back and the sound change was terrible. I sold the Dean the next month.