My new toy

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:47 am

he still has the rug! in Denver!

Bravo!

nice score-drill it

jsod · Post by **jsod** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:26 am

Did you find that on Craigslist, Jeff?

There was one just like that listed about a month or so ago in California; I think it was mentioned here.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:47 am

yep that's the one ...

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:52 am

Please spare this one, Jeff... it's too pretty to be drilled.

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:08 am

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:36 am

Mannnnn, I like that alot, I've been looking for one. Reminds me of my very first Rick. Mine had chrome hardware though.

Hmmmm.....your a big fan of 4004's arent you Jeff? You dont have a CII do you?

Does it have any "bridge lift"? Seems like the black bridges are prone to that.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:50 am

Nice score, Jeff!

Maybe you can play a little Rick James with it and put up a sound byte?

"Give it to me baby...."

LOL

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:03 pm

the tailpiece has a small amount of lift ... the black trim parts seem to be weaker and more prone to rust than chrome parts ...

as per drilling holes in my new bass and converting it to a 5 string ... well guys as a 4 string bass it is pretty much useless to me ... it is just a piece of wood with some metal parts and some nice white paint ... I bought it to play it ... not to collect it and then sell it for a profit later ... I buy stocks for investment ... I buy basses to play ...

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:59 pm

Jeff James! Nice ring to it, eh?

Great looking bass, Jeff, goes great with that Denver snow.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:33 pm

how about Rick Rath????

actually we have melted a lot of the snow ... we get a lot of sunny days here ...

I have wanted a good white with black trim 5 string ric since I sold this one here ...

http://www.3dentourage.com/425/89-4003s5.htm

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:36 pm

Have you ever gigged a BEAD bass Jeff?, it does make you play up the neck more, just something to think about.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:15 pm

I tried BEAD, DGCF, DADG, Eflat ... none of them is as good as BEADG ... the second best option to a 5 string bass was DGCF ... but then I had several songs that needed a low D flat ... BEAD tuning messed up head too much ... I used to have a jazz bass tuned DGCF and I loved playing that bass ... and I had a p-bass tuned e flat ...

My white 4003 has a W0 serial number ... it was sold on ebay 3-25-05 by derailer for $1235 ... I got it for $1300 last month ...

I go up the neck a lot on my 5 string basses ... I play the high A, B, C, D and stretch the high E flat up to E

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:28 pm

Maybe you can play a little Rick James with it and put up a sound byte?

"Give it to me baby...."

Super Freaky!

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:00 am

Jeff your white/bt is an Oct. 97 and mine was a Nov. 97, weird how they changed the first two letters to month/year instead of year/month like the older ones. Since this bass is very clean and is a rare color perhaps you could go to the extra expense of filling/redrilling the top holes so it looks like a S/5, that headstock could probably be refinned to hide the plugs and be worth the effort down the road.