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walker wrote: Well I'll be damned! There goes THAT illusion! This whole time I thought that was a Rick on the first album. But the sound similarity between a 4001 and a P at least makes more sense than a Jazz.!

I have heard that many times peviously......but, to my ears.....a Jazz gets a LOT closer to the tone of a 4001 than a P.
Just my observation.








Do not drink from the toilet when taking Lyrica

Nice to see the 21 fretter!

A few more 'oldies' to consider;


Early Kate Bush hits - David Paton on bass??? got to have been done on his Ric!

10CC - all their early stuff, "Wall Street Shuffle", "Life is a Minestrone" (see the TOTP2 Live Version on You Tube - 4001 JG with a Toaster). etc etc.

Sparks - all their early hits "This Town Ain't Big Enough", "Girls, Girls, Girls" etc etc.

B.T.O. - "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet".

Eagles - "Hotel California" - (Randy Meisner).


The list goes on.........

Lefty4003S8 wrote:

walker wrote: Well I'll be damned! There goes THAT illusion! This whole time I thought that was a Rick on the first album. But the sound similarity between a 4001 and a P at least makes more sense than a Jazz.!

I have heard that many times peviously......but, to my ears.....a Jazz gets a LOT closer to the tone of a 4001 than a P.
Just my observation.








Do not drink from the toilet when taking Lyrica

I think it depends who's playing it, what the individual instrument is like and what Ric sound you're after. I can usually get a good P to sound more like a Ric than a J.

For me, I'll put on anything by Yes, Deep Purple Made in Japan (used to say Made in Europe too 'til I found out it was probably a P, despite the pictures), early Genesis (e.g. Live), Motorhead / Hawkwind, or maybe a bit of Renaissance. Occasionally I'll stick a bit of early Rush on but for some reason I'm finding them harder to listen to these days (they were my favourite band once - briefly - but times and tastes change).

I will say I'm tending to watch footage more than listen to albums these days - I think it's because I want to see how cool those basses look as well as hear how cool they sound!

In the non-bass realm,i really love hearing RIC guitars played by MIdnight Oil,the Church,and the Flaming Groovies,as well as the British invasion lot.

I think early Bee Gees had a Rickenbacker bass. Massachutes, To Love Somebody , Got To Get A Message To You The sustain and deep bass were great!

grenadilla wrote:I think early Bee Gees had a Rickenbacker bass. Massachutes, To Love Somebody , Got To Get A Message To You The sustain and deep bass were great!

A forum member owns that Rick, currently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_FqbZ0iJY

has to be the most authentic Ric sound

vax2002 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_FqbZ0iJY

has to be the most authentic Ric sound

Was the sticker on this guitar (see 1:59) the reason for Jingle-Jangle's "Wham!-Guitar"?

heinpete wrote: Was the sticker on this guitar the reason for Jingle-Jangle's "Wham!-Guitar"?

Paul Weller had the original "WHAAM!!" guitar:

sloop_john_b wrote:

heinpete wrote: Was the sticker on this guitar the reason for Jingle-Jangle's "Wham!-Guitar"?

Paul Weller had the original "WHAAM!!" guitar

... the sticker might have been first?

Wow... check the credits at the end of the Jam vid - Joy Division played that same episode!

Anything from Chris Squire's old days.

I'll play this game. Aside from Yes and many others, my go to for Rickenbacker sound is an underrated and sadly no longer Australian post rock delicious noise band - RICAINE.

From memory, a 4000 JetGlo with maybe a Bartolini pickup. To my knowledge Brett O'Riley still plays it in Blacklevel Embassy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mY9O_kX60E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUJmy0Xea64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY0GdWXGC68