Rickenbacker basses used in Grunge

[johnallg]

Hahaha! Still a nice tune...

[teeder]

John,

Email sent about upcoming gigs.

[Ric N. Backer]

Seems like Rics fit into most any type of music...

[captsandwich]

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth occasionally played a Ric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdP6UuNNHqA

[jps]

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth occasionally played a Ric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdP6UuNNHqA

What is that Jetgloblack guitar that has a very Rick-like shape?

[captsandwich]

Dunno, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in his guitar list here:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/eq/thurstonall.html

[dricard]

Dave Drewitz plays one in Ween, a marginally "grunge" band, tho they are more satire rock than grunge. What I like about Dave's tone is that it is a full ranged tone from a 4001, it isnt overly trebly nor overly "proggy". It's been stated as a 1980 4001 I think somewhere, and its features at least point it to post 1974-75 or so. Nice mapleglo, terrific player!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESy8ccN ... re=related

[Lefty4001]

A couple more not-exactly-grunge guys in the 90s slingin' Ric 4-strings were (lefty) Scott Reeder from Kyuss and Paul D'amour on the earlier Tool discs. I especially love Paul's sound, use of harmonics (lie, cheat and steal!) and the fact that Tool never buries the bass.

[cassius987]

Paul d'Amour seems to have invented Tool's approach to bass and guitar, where the bass sets the better part of the stage, including the hook, and the guitar adds textures. Justin Chancellor, his replacement, quickly took up this approach (especially consider Paul wrote half of the bass material for the album Chancellor replaced him on). Chancellor even evolved his sound a lot to match Paul's (check out his previous tone with Peach, it was entirely different).

Paul and Scott Reeder appear together (yes, two Ric bassists, one stage) on a live recording of Tool performing Kyuss's "Demon Cleaner". Paul handles the low end and Scott does the hooks.

[haw]

Ned's ATomic Dustbin had 2 bassplayers and the one was playing a Ric like a guitar while the other played a musicman...

Funny you should mention them - I bought a CD of theirs the other day. Weren't really Grunge though - Grebo I think instead.

Still, quite right - two bass players. One (Musicman StingRay) did all the conventional bass stuff, while the other (JG 4001) did the high stuff.

An interesting concept that actually worked pretty well.