Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?

[Headshots]

I'm new to the RickResource and posted on the Vintage Forum. It was recommended that I post on the Bass Forum; of course! Here's the post:

Hi, I am new to this forum. I usually camp out over at the Beatgear Cavern. I am the original owner of a 1976 3000 bass that was given to me in 1978 when my ex husband and I got a tour of the Rickenbacker Factory. Rick was a sponsor of the 1977 Broadway show musical, Beatlemania, supplying the guitars. Last year, at a gathering in the Seattle area, I got to meet the two luthiers (Dale Fortune & Mark Arnquist) whose very hands built my bass. That was very exciting to meet the makers of my "Little Ricky."

Toni

[johnallg]

Welcome Toni! Wow, what a story. Makes it an even more special instrument. Hope you hang out here with the rest of us low enders.

[paul_yan]

Welcome to the family, Toni! Fascinating story of yours.

There's a 3000 belonging to a forumite in the RRF Register:
http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... lebrity%3D

Here's a list of all the 3000 basses (most of them "CI, i.e. collected items that don't belong to any forumites) in the register:
http://www.rickresource.com/register/in ... celebrity=

And don't forget to register yours!

[cjj]

Welcome to the forum Toni! Cool story too. We'd all love to see some pictures of your bass!

[ram]

Welcome to the Forum Toni. Great tale!

[rickenbrother]

Welcome to the Forum Toni!

[jps]

Welcome, once again!

I have a shorty, but it's not a Rick. I have a mid '90s Fender Mustang Bass. Very nice bass, actually.

[berth]

Welcome Toni. And I have a 3000 too.

[daveman]

Welcome! Here's my 3000 with his big brother.

[Fretjob]

Welcome! Here's my 3000 with his big brother.

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Very NIce

Do they sound the same? I'd read the long scale one had a heavy neck. How does it feel compared to the shortscale?

[partime]

Hi Toni, welcome to the forum, a great place for information, stories, ect. I have a 75 and 76 3000. Love em both, play them everyday. I play short scale basses and these instuments rate very high and have alot of character. Very distinctive, easy to play, even though its been explained, I cannot understand why Rick discontinued them. I do like roundwound strings as they have better sustain. I reside in the PNW too.
Hold onto it.

[aceonbass]

I put this instrument together from the wreckage of two basket case 3000's and a 3001 neck a couple years ago.

[DavyR]

FYI, there's a 3000 RIC bass on Craigslist. Search PITTSBURGH for: MINT RICKENBACKER 3001 - $1500 (Bever County)

[mattyplop]

Hey Toni, Welcome! im fairly new here myself... Heres my two babies, a '76 3000, and a '78 3001! Does anyone know the colour of my 3001??

[bassduke49]

Mark, your 3001 is Walnut, the overall application rather than the more common burst style. Pretty!