Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Thank you, Mark.

Looking good, John. Was it hot up there?

Kev.. I don't like one pickup basses... but that thing's purdy! Sweet bass!

Nate: Early August, packed club, New York City...it was VERY hot.

Lol.. I wouldn't be able to go shirtless up like that... for one, I'm very pale.. lol. And two... thanks to my dad (damn genes!) I'll be getting a Paul Stanley style chest in a few years. hehe. But.. it worked for him, so why couldn't it work fer me?

Thanx guys for all the comments about the 'Burg beast of 75. Been with me from new. Just tellin Nate .... has a far purer ringy sound than any 4001 I've ever heard or played. How do you guys feel about the difference in the sound of 4000/4001 ? Interested to hear your experiences.

Well when I first got my 4001 I was an eediot!

(I HAD TO!)

I plugged my cord into the rick-o-sound jack. I though the two jacks gave different sounds. The rick-o-sound was amazing and the mono was boomy. When I joined this forum they said if I turned down the bass volume a bit the sound would be great. So the first year I had my 4001 I was playing a 4000.

The '4000' sound was amazing. Great tone, had the right amount of growl.. the mono '4001' jack has much more low end and it fills everything out. Plus I play over the neck pickup, so my attack and sound goes though the bass pickup first. But I'll just say the 4001 has more low end.

Nate, I believe if you just run thru the Ric-O-Sound jack, you just get the bridge pickup.

That's what happened.. it was pretty much a 4000 then. I play mono now.. now that I know. It sounds so much better with the bass pickup rolled off a little.

Okay...I believe I warned everyone when I figured out my new scanner that you were 'in for it'...been tripping through the musty archives, back to a time in the distant past, in a galaxy far, far away. These are from 1984...(still some evidence of my Chris Squire phase: for you, Nate!) What a long strange trip, etc...

And a couple more, same time frame...

Wow...what a trip, Dane. Are those hexagonal drums in some landfill now?!

Thanks fer the nod, Dane. Looks good! What'd they think of the 4080/12?

I can see the Squire in you.. where you held the pick, the stance, the Rickenbacker... lol.

Not unless you call my garage a 'landfill'...

Saaayyy...you haven't seen my garage, have you?

(For you connoisseurs of the esoteric, I still have the Orchestron, too...and that chrome Slingerland kit is mine, as well...)

You don't happen to have any Moog Taurus bass pedals you're willing to part with, do you
Cool pics! That's inspired me to put the pup cover on my 4080. Looks even cooler that way.
That's an AutumnGlo 4001 isn't it?

You know, I guess it is...although the guy who sold it to me in '76 called it a 'Tobacco Sunburst'! I sold it ten years ago to a friend of mine, Shane Hotl, the keyboardist in 'Thinking Plague', for $500 (Arrrgh! Being broke sucks.) He claimed at the time that he'd sell it back to me when I had the inclination/wherewithal...don't know if he'll give me the same deal, though.

As a matter of fact I do have a Taurus (it's just below the margin in that last photo), which I still use today...gonna try like hell to hang on to it, but thanks for askin'...

They are cool bits o' gear. Dave P. has a Taurus II set apparently.
Something else to put on my wish list. I learned from a good friend to keep whatever you can, 'cause you may never get it back.