Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I think if Randy Decker was still on the forum, he would have offered 20K for this by now.

The only band member I know of that used and recorded with a potatohead 4005-8 was Chris Squire, on Fish Out Of Water.

I thought that was the white 4001/8 Ilan...

It was, according to JH, the very first one ever made...the 4008 that is...

I know about the white potatohead with the bound body and dot neck, Entwistle had the other one, but AFAIK - and I could be mistaken - I remember reading somewhere that Squire also has a 4005-8 that he used on Fish.

I saw Squire use the white 4001/8 with a potato head live back during the Close to the Edge tour. I believe he used it on All Good People... He might have used it on Roundabout too.

I LOVE the potatohead! I was so disappointed to see the 4003/8 using the regular head, and with all bass machines. Bah!

Squire's 8-string playing on Fish is beautiful.

Johnny Cash's bass player apparently ordered it?

Van Halen's Michael Anthony has a 1968 potatohead Mapleglo 4005-8.

Chris Squire also used his white 4001/8 on "Going For The One" . This may have been the last time he used it before switching to his Raney 8 string. I'm not sure if John Entwistle ever recorded with his white 4001/8, by the time The Who recorded "Success Story " he had made the switch to his Alembic 8 string. Rick Danko played a Fender Jazz at Woodstock, switching to the Ripper by the time of The Last Waltz, although some studio cuts were recorded for the Last Waltz where he used his fretless Ampeg.

what's wrong with the 'regular' head?



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It's SOOOOOO damn big! Also having all big bass machines is just so ungainly.

I like this better for an 8 because it's a bit more compact. But I love the regular headstock.



Or at the very least if they had used guitar and bass machines on the 4001 head style. Or even better, make it like a 12 string Ric!

Agreed David. That old headstock is far more asesthetically pleasing that the newer version imo. It just looks like more thought and craft went into it.

I think the head stock is more sponge monkey, than potatohead.

Now that would make great reissue an 8 string with the potato head or sponge monkey headstock.

"I'm not sure if John Entwistle ever recorded with his white 4001/8, by the time The Who recorded "Success Story " he had made the switch to his Alembic 8 string."

He used the Rickenbacker 4008 in "Success Story", he acquired his Alembic 8-strings later. 4008 can be seen in "30 Years of Maximum R&B" video/DVD; they're rehearsing with Kenney Jones and Rabbit Bundrick and John plays the riff of "Sister Disco" with it.

http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear-74-85.html