Is there a famous user of a bone stock Rick?

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:11 am

From what I've read and seen throughout the years, Martin Gordon (Sparks 1974) and Steve Priest (Sweet), for instance, played 4001 basses in a stock configuration.

morrow · Post by **morrow** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:38 am

The first of the English invasion , Pete Quaife of the Kinks.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:40 am

How about Rick James?

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:13 pm

Apparently Rick actually preferred his Stingray...

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:58 pm

I don't think Paul Goddard of the Atlanta Rythym Section or Ed Gagliardi of Foreigner made any modifications to their 4001 basses.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:18 pm

Chuck Panozzo from Styx played a stock 4001.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:34 pm

I forgot about Chuck Panozzo, he went on to use Alembic after using the 4001.

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:46 pm

Later he settled on Sadowskys.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:52 pm

Loads of stock 4001's back in the 70's, early 80's for ex. The Vapors. I think modding Fenders was a lot more common and a lot easier too, I had a P bass with a Jazz neck for years. Berry Oakley put a Guild Starfire pickup near his neck, that was a common mod back then, putting a neck PU on a P bass, for more bottom. The bass player for CCR put an EBO PU next to his neck on a P bass. When I bought my 68 P bass in 77 it also had an EBO PU near the neck.

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:05 am

And the bass player for "Fusillade" (Boston area, mid '70s) used a stock '72 MG except for a poor refinish.

;^)

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:06 am

Amy Humphrey of Clatter. She jams on it as well.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:26 am

I think modding Fenders was a lot more common and a lot easier too, I had a P bass with a Jazz neck for years.

I modded my '76 Fender Precision with DiMarzio pickups and a BassAss II bridge to make it sound good. When Chuck Panozzo switched from Fender to Rickenbacker, I remember him saying that he switched to the Rickenbacker so he could be heard.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:43 am

Yeah, he had a pretty good sound too although he was usually buried in the mix, I don't know if it was the bass or the producer, haha!

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:55 am

A lot of sound guys (and presumably producers) seem to think bass should be felt, but not heard.

Let's turn up the mids & treble and make them deaf, then we can play what we want!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:34 am

"A lot of sound guys (and presumably producers) seem to think bass should be felt, but not heard."

These people are obviously not bassists. If you want it to be felt, not heard, buy a kickdrum and just play that.