What would it take to part with your Rics...

[wints]

I still would like to get a '60's 4001, and something in a little cleaner condition.

What's wrong with the one you have?

Note the "1" on the end.
There's nothing wrong with the '69 4001S conversion, but I do love the sparklies and checker binding!
It would have to be something very special though.

Well, that would surely be the bass built one before the 4000/1 you already have then...


Graham has a 3 p/up 4005, and it looks great IMO. I should have binned that one back in the day, but it was JG....

[teeder]

Hang on to that baby one more year, Wints! I "may" be at a point where I could get it without selling anything else!

[paologregorio]

D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

OUCH.

[rickaddict]

Graham has a 3 p/up 4005, and it looks great IMO. I should have binned that one back in the day, but it was JG....

I'd like to see that puppy!

...but it was JG....

You crack me up, Wints. I love JG!

For the record...If a '90 or '91 4001V63JG shows up on Ebay for sale, I'll bid for the moon!

Not MG, not FG...JG!!

Some people like JG!

[12stringbassist]

ANY of these 4 (one is a John Birch from 1976) could go if I stopped playing them for long enough.

[BlueAngel]

While it's true that a few vintage instruments are incredibly great, I honestly don't think they're worth the premium that they command - certainly not something like a Fender model of which hundreds of thousands have been made more recently, and are still being made... you could most likely find a more modern one which will do exactly the same job, or so close that it doesn't really matter, for a fraction of the price. I love a good vintage guitar or bass as much as anyone, and I can see the magic in them (when it's there! not all of them have it by a long way...), but I wouldn't pay the price they fetch now to own one - much less part with a treasured and much more unique instrument to get there.

[sloop_john_b]

ANY of these 4 (one is a John Birch from 1976) could go if I stopped playing them for long enough.

Please stop playing the Blue Boy, please stop playing the Blue Boy...

[jingle_jangle]

ANY of these 4 (one is a John Birch from 1976) could go if I stopped playing them for long enough.

Jeez, which one is the Birch?

[jwr2]

These days my skills at building basses is getting to the point that I really don't need my Rics .. they are nice to have but with the money I can get for them I am tempted to sell them all ...

[incubus2432]

I've actually been tempted lately to put the Laredo and LK on the block. I haven't been in a band for a while and really don't see it working out anytime soon so I wonder what the point is in keeping them. I always said I'd never part with it (the LK) but I also think it's wrong for it to just be sitting in the case all of the time. I barely even play anymore. I go through phases where I noodle around a bit but I could do that on anything. Keeping the LK now is mostly just because I waited so long for it, I'm not hurting for cash (but could always pay some bills with the proceeds) and since I really didn't pay that much for it I don't feel like it's a luxury to keep it. Plus it's a pretty cool piece of art.

[chefothefuture]

What would it take for me to sell 'em?

Coming to that spiritual place where I discover that this stuff is actually pulling
me away from god-consciousness as well as killing the kundalini, And that the state
of bliss that I'm capable of obtaining does not include a room full of guitars.

I'm almost there.
Check the for sale section soon......!

[chefothefuture]

Just wanted to add that I'm not putting any one down in any way.
My comment was in no way intended as an insult.
I'm just talking about where I am.....

[ricnbacker]

What would it take to part with your Rics?

I have "A" Ric

and the answer is nothing. I told my Kids I would put a clause in my will so they cannot sell it.

A '59 fender doesnt do a damn thing for me either.

I had a 68 P a 74 P and a 75 Jazz in the late 70's through the late 80's Not one of them ever felt right.

I got my Ric basically because of one I saw in 1979 that a friend of my brothers had.It was a white 77 4001 and it was being played through a traynor amp. I never heard anything like it before. I never saw a Ric in any store and frankly never looked to hard for one either. In December of 2000 I was in a music store with a friend and there was a used one on the wall. I played it for 5 minutes, walked up to the counter and ordered a brand new one.....

It is the best feeling best sounding bass I have ever played.

[jwr2]

Anybody interested in this bass here?

http://www.3dentourage.com/425/98-4004ci5.htm

[cheyenne]

What would it take to part with your Rics...

Money usually does it for me..