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This thread is cool.

Chris Brubeck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EySQ2ei1NTA

Come on... that is SICK playing.

Sure this thread's cool

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Only figured this one out when I saw the video on an oldies music video night on tv...



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And this was the video that made me want to take up the bass, when I was 14. Furthermore, Randy Meisner is a stud! He's one of the most highly underrated bassists out there.

I wouldn't call it suprise, because I've always known he played a Rick, but the tone McCartney gets on his Beatles/Rick stuff is way different than what comes to mind when you think "Sounds like a Rick".

I wasn't so much surprised as pleased to see these YouTube examples of The Doobie Brothers in the early '70's with Tiran Porter playing a Mapleglo 4003 (Or is it a 4001?):

YouTube - Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music

YouTube - Doobie Brothers - Jesus Is Just Alright

Would have to be a 4001 from the 70's...

I think at one time or another almost every quality bassist has used Rickenbacker...The only ones I can't picture with a Ric might be Bill Wyman and John Paul Jones...they probably used them when I wasn't looking though...

...And Jack Bruce (which is a shame... his playing is amazing).

DanJ wrote:I wasn't so much surprised as pleased to see these YouTube examples of The Doobie Brothers in the early '70's with Tiran Porter playing a Mapleglo 4003 (Or is it a 4001?):

YouTube - Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music

YouTube - Doobie Brothers - Jesus Is Just Alright

Great thread. These vids are fun to watch.

Tiran Porter is playing a 4001 in both videos. More specifically it's a nice, shiny new, mid to late '72 4001. 1/2" spaced toaster, skunk stripe, shorty headstock, (wavy?) Grover tuners, tug-bar, and full-width inlays are the tell tale signs. Me likey. Me want. Maybe when my share of the two trillion dollar bailout kicks in.

More a plug than anything else, maybe - I didn't know this band just a month ago, but still a surprise to see a Rick there...

Linkie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKppGm2ppzE (Embedding is disabled, so no in-post vid)



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