Rembrandts' bass

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:24 am

I flipped over to VH1 last night and caught bits of "One Hit Wonders" and they showed pieces of the Rembrandts video clip with the stars from "Friends." It was obviously an all-Rick band, but the bass was unusual. It was a 4003 and predominantly red, but had a black pickguard and TRC, and what looked like either engravings or applique art on the body. Anybody here know the story on this bass?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:21 am

hey ... did you see the new McDonald's commercial with the jetglo 4003? ... the food sucks but the bass is cool ...

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:00 am

Jeff...that bass is shown for about 3/4 of a second...good eye!

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:45 am

saw the mcdonald's commercial. wife told me to get a life

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:47 am

Andy check your emai.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:48 am

er..email.

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:37 am

Yeah, I saw the McDonald's one, too . . .

. . . but what about the Rembrandt's bass?

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:24 am

Looks like it's Mapleglo with magic marker "art" on the top and headstock.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:19 pm

maybe its the Lemmy K 4004 forerunner!

I still like the old rollercoaster disaster movie with the young Helen Hunt, the bass player in the band had an Azure-glo 4001.

The name of this high caliber movie escapes me, poor cholinergic transmission!

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:59 pm

El-MarkoGlo?

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:17 pm

Jared: you mean Twister?

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:36 pm

No-no, this was when the extremely talented (lol) Helen Hunt was a teen. I think George Segal was the detective and there was a bomber that was going to blow up the amusement park.

Anyways the band playing featured a guy playing a azure-glo 4001-he was lousy (like the pic) but the g'tar was nice

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:37 pm

Hmmm...I know nothing about the "Friends" video, thank goodness, but in case you're not aware, Rembrandts are really a two man band, with added musicians as needed. And IIRC both play Teles and acoustics as often as Rics.

geraldee · Post by **geraldee** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:24 am

Jared, I remember that movie AND that bass. I think that was called "Rollercoaster" but not sure. It was one of a slew of Irwin Allen like disaster flicks in the '70's. That one was about rock bottom.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:11 am

The movie is from 1977. Helen Hunt was 13.