Cindy Lauper On Letterman

rob · Post by **rob** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:12 am

At least I think it was Cindy Lauper. The bass player was playing what appeared to be a Chris Squire model. Anyone see this last night on David Letterman?

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:01 am

Yeah...

...couldn't quite tell because there was never a decent camera shot of the bassist... and also because the bass had so many stickers and things stuck all over it. All you could really see was that it was a 4001s, with the dark wings on the headstock.

Also, was it my imagination or was that a female bassist? The Rick looked huge against them!

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:46 am

Miss Lauper's bassist should have been W. Wittman from the Voxtalks site. Check out this current thread:
http://www.voxtalks.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=V15&Post=1777&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=

rob · Post by **rob** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:58 am

I thought the bassist was a male.

But, in today's world, anything is possible......
Boy, do I have some horror stories about some people I met. We shall not go there.....LOL

Yeah, what's with all those stickers?

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:21 am

Pic of William Wittman here: ../10625/8039.html"#FFEECC">

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:58 pm

Ok... not a female... just a compact dude!

Just goes to show how much screen time they DIDN'T give Mr. Wittman!

Thanx for the info!

wwittman · Post by **wwittman** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:03 am

Yes i didn't get much camera time, but the LAST time i played Letterman (playing a 360-12v64) i got LOTS of time, so one cannot complain.
Yes, it's a 4001CS which was triggering a Roland V-Bass (although i doubt you could see the ROland pick-up taped on between the bridge and the horsehoe pick-up).
Behind me was a Hiwatt Custom 100 head on a Vox Foundation cab as well.
The stickers are there because a) i HAD to cover the compeltely embarrassing Squire signature (a player i never liked in the slightest anyway) and b) because i like having at least a little healthy disrespect for instruments... and it makes them PERSONAL.
At least i didn't rip off the original bridge and tailpiece and put a Bigsby on (speaking of disrespect) <g>
We do The View this Monday i think, for those curious.

wwittman · Post by **wwittman** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:11 pm

ooops, it's TUESDAY for The View, by the way...
and sorry for all the typos!

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:41 pm

Witt you should've gotten yourself a 4001V63 if you don't like Squire!

wwittman · Post by **wwittman** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 7:00 am

What happened was: i was producing a record with a band and the bass player came in with his brand new Squire Rickenbacker.
i was, to say the least, sceptical, but it actually sounded REALLY good and then i picked it up to play it and it also FELT really good.
So i looked around for one and found one to buy.
Simple as that.
I do like the off-white colour and it really feels great.. one of the best neck feels of any Rickenbacker i've played.
too bad about the signature, but... easily fixed with a well placed "Trimix" sticker.
Do the v63's have the exact same neck shape? I thought not.

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:09 pm

Definitely matters what year you get. My V is an early model 1985 real slim neck and flat profile. Real fast player!
cheers!

rob · Post by **rob** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:33 am

William-
I think that Mr. Squire had the neck on his bass sanded down, causing a slimmer neck. So, on the 4001CS the neck is made slimmer to reflect that. As for the V series and possibly C series have the more common shaped neck.