"The" RM 1999

just_bassics · Post by **just_bassics** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:56 pm

Uh oh...

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:03 pm

just_bassics wrote:Uh oh...

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:59 pm

ajish4 wrote:
just_bassics wrote:Uh oh...

opticnerve · Post by **opticnerve** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:16 pm

Huh!? I wonder if Paul was at all influenced by some of these other Ric bass players...to finally take the Ric plunge?
He passed on the 4001S in '64. What made him change his mind? Interesting.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:48 pm

opticnerve wrote:Huh!? I wonder if Paul was at all influenced by some of these other Ric bass players...to finally take the Ric plunge?
He passed on the 4001S in '64. What made him change his mind? Interesting.

Tony, wasn't that first one a right-handed 4001S? The second was a lefty and the price was right.

Halbert · Post by **Halbert** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:08 pm

johnallg wrote: Tony, wasn't that first one a right-handed 4001S? The second was a lefty and the price was right.

The price was right on both. The first one was indeed a righty, though.

walker · Post by **walker** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:00 am

Just a theory - having played a Rick for most of my bass-playing life, I can see how the feel and tonal quality of the 4001/4003/1999 can lend one towards playing fast lines and chordal passages much like Chris created with his. I think there are parts that just wouldn't have come about if Chris hadn't chosen the RM. On a related parallel, since Geddy Lee quit using a Rick, I haven't found his basslines to be nearly as interesting as what he came up with his 4001. Kudos to Squire for keeping his signature instrument & creative tool in his vocabulary.

Now then - stepping backwards to that ambiguous exchange between Ronbo, Boyle, and Cabibe... what are we missing? Something abysmal about Lake and his RM?

just_bassics · Post by **just_bassics** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:11 am

Sorry for the mysterious posting. I was quite worried that the famous RM may have been badly damaged in the stage incident. We'll have to wait and see if it appears at the next show, once they get things back on course.

walker · Post by **walker** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:42 am

Aaaah. Got you. Yes - let's keep our fingers crossed.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:52 pm

just_bassics wrote:Sorry for the mysterious posting. I was quite worried that the famous RM may have been badly damaged in the stage incident. We'll have to wait and see if it appears at the next show, once they get things back on course.

A very scary thought....

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:47 pm

So,, Was there any damage to guitars and basses????

Blackstar · Post by **Blackstar** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:39 pm

I saw the RM 1999 alive and very well in San Diego County last night!

just_bassics · Post by **just_bassics** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:52 pm

Yep, the RM is fine.

1boominrick · Post by **1boominrick** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:41 pm

Does anyone know what the original finish was on "the RM1999 (DC127). Did it come with a cream-colored finish, or did Chris' repairman put that on it?

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:02 am

FireGlo. Someone posted very early pics of it onstage, but I can't find them now.

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