First White 4001?

[bassduke49]

Now, the white one with no inlays IS a 21-fretter! Wow!

[jps]

Used to have inlays, anyway!

[teeder]

That's the best picture I've seen of that one. Looks like the TP is way forward and the saddles are all the way back. Probably terrible intonation. What a rare bass though!
Wonder what the scoop is on the inlays, initial saw cuts made and filled in?

[pag]

I owned the Gibb bass up til the early 80s. It was probably previously owned by the Bee Gees management company
or someone connected to the band after they moved to the States.
I bought it from Honky Tonk Music in Essex but I never found out who the previous owner was.
By the late 70s when I aquired DH163 the Bee Gees were well into their disco phase and maybe in the period after
Mo lost contact with the RM he missed it and wanted another White Rick to take its place.
Its a situation I have experienced since parting with #163 all those years ago!

If I remember correctly theres still some FG under the white paint.
I scratched some white paint off the back of the headstock just to make sure it had striped headstock wings.
If you think back to the late 70s there was no internet to find stuff out there were no detailed guitar history books
and I wasnt even on the phone at home so I was finding out all the detail for myself.

Like the idea of the white 4005 by the way.
I think Vincent Gallo has C Squires white 8string bass.

I put the money from my custom white CS towards a light relic MN Fender Custom Shop 1970 Jazz bass....in black!
If the white C64 basses had made it to England I was going to go for one but it wasnt to be.

There will be another white Rick in the house one day.

[electrofaro]

Nobody ever posted a video of the Bee Gees Ric being used live?

[bassduke49]

Well, that may be the third Rick bass I've seen in Maurice's hands. This one appears to be a Mapleglo 4001 deluxe trim with walnut head wings, so that would be one from before spring of 1972. He also has been photographed with a White 4001 with black trim, and the old once-Fireglo RM 1999 refinished white (now in the collection of a Forumite).

[electrofaro]

[bassduke49]

We turn our hymnals to page 38:

[rickyfricky]

Here's a couple shots of JD099 (April 1970) -- my SINGLE truss-rod bastihd child.

Questioned by the "expert-texperts", and validated by Mr. Hall as a prototype or test model.

No evidence of a refin, although JH's email also mentioned there's a record of it leaving the factory in Jet Glo ...

The Mystery continues.

[s4001]

Nice yellowing. Not usually a fan, but it works real well on that.

[rickyfricky]

Searching the Register yields:

1969 4001s #IL3931 December '69
1970 4001 #6866 (?) January '70
1970 4001 #5312 (?) January '70
1970 4001 #JD099 April '70

Also a 360/12 Tuxedo #15 January '70

No mention of a refin on any of these, and I'm not sure what to make of the partial serial #'s . . .

[electrofaro]

We turn our hymnals to page 38:

MG1999.jpg

Early Snowglo