John Birch 4/8 doubleneck

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Sun May 14, 2006 6:48 am

Did anyone catch the John ***** Doubleneck 4/8 from this past week before it was pulled? Looks interesting. I have the rest of the pics. I'll post them if any body wants to see them.

wints · Post by **wints** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:19 am

Interesting, but nowhere near as aesthetically pleasing as an original IMO..

Certainly an acquired taste....

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:53 am

from the "Society"?

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Sun May 14, 2006 8:49 am

To me a 4/8 double neck makes sense like a 6/12. But a 6/4 I never understood!

Did RIC ever make a 4/8 double neck?

jon · Post by **jon** » Sun May 14, 2006 12:57 pm

4/6 or 4/12 makes a lot of sense in the wonderful world of prog, where bass players are often expected to help out with another guitar part whilst playing the bass part with the feet (on bass pedals). Genesis would be the most obvious example to me, a few Rush things have this too.

I get to do this a fair bit. If I had more limbs, I'm sure something else would be expected of me too.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Sun May 14, 2006 1:15 pm

Hey Jon, when are you going to post some pic's of you and the BG?

jon · Post by **jon** » Sun May 14, 2006 2:03 pm

Hi Dave - there's three pics in the 'Post a Picture of You Playing Your Ric' from around the 25th March.

Just for you however, here's two more:

Not over keen on this one, but it's the only one of us with instruments where we are actually standing still. I blocked out the name of a certain drum manufacturer so as not to embarass our dw connected drummer.

I have to wear it fairly high so that the guitar neck doesn't clatter off the keyboard during Xanadu.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Sun May 14, 2006 2:11 pm

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:30 pm

Jon, why doesn't your drummer have two bass drums? ;^)

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:08 pm

if it were a 5 / 10 instead of a 4 / 8 I would have bought it ...

nice 4080 Jon ...

jon · Post by **jon** » Sun May 14, 2006 8:25 pm

"Jon, why doesn't your drummer have two bass drums? ;^)"

Ah, but he does have two bass drum pedals

Actually, the bulk of the kit in that photo is a drum kit that was already set up there. The bass amp is not mine either - not that you can see it in that picture.

Incidentally Neil Peart doesn't have two bass drums anymore (well he does, but one or other is always behind him).

"if it were a 5 / 10 instead of a 4 / 8 I would have bought it ...nice 4080 Jon ..."

Hehe, I'll bet you would have...thanks Jeff.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:51 am

I mentioned that Birch bass in an earlier thread:

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pekka · Post by **pekka** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:12 am

I remember seeing a pic of Nektar's Mo Moore with a similar John Birch doubleneck bass. Nektar's Roy Albrighton had a similarly shaped 6/12 guitar.

12stringbassist · Post by **12stringbassist** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:42 am

My pic of a 6/12 'Rickenbircher' from a Manchester guitar show a couple opf years ago : http://www.crazeeworld.plus.com/images/guitars/others/rickenbircher.jpg

My own 1976 John Birch SCDR stereo bass in greenburst:
http://www.crazeeworld.plus.com/images/kerbcrawlers/guitars/rickenbircher_ian_e.jpg

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Mon May 29, 2006 4:17 am

A while ago there was a green Birch 4-string/8-string double neck bass at Songbird Music in Toronto. Shape was a bit rough as I recall, but very interesting nonetheless.