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Don't forget Dave Meros playing on some of Spock's Beards early stuff, crunchy rick tones played with a pick. I think someone here even bought his bass from that time off ebay back in 2003.

Lemmy. Having just watched the Classic Albums making of Ace of Spades, there's no contest.

I dont know about aggressive but I cally it "meaty
Theres a posting on the CS horseshoe thread I put a Myspace link on.
This is my RM 1999 from back in the 80s.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =399737824

Hm... Great to see someone mention Martin Gordon's awesome 4001 tone and playing on "Kimono My House".

Esperanto Rock Orchestra's 1975 release, "Last Tango" features some of the most in-your-face 4001 tone ever. I forget which one of the Malisan brothers - Tony or Gino - was the bassplayer with the band though.

How's about Gary Strater from Starcastle! Pretty aggresive tones on all 4 albums especially the last one...the not great "real to reel". Great sound from a late '60's fireglo 4001 deluxe!

BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote:How's about Gary Strater from Starcastle! Pretty aggresive tones on all 4 albums especially the last one...the not great "real to reel". Great sound from a late '60's fireglo 4001 deluxe!

I've always looked up to Gary - great creative bass parts. RIP Gary!

marc61 wrote:I always felt the guy from Rush(forget his name) was a pretty aggressive Ric bass finger plucker. Especially on the first albums.

That would be Geddy Lee.

ken_j wrote:

marc61 wrote:I always felt the guy from Rush(forget his name) was a pretty aggressive Ric bass finger plucker. Especially on the first albums.

That would be Geddy Lee.

nattiep wrote:

ken_j wrote:

marc61 wrote:I always felt the guy from Rush(forget his name) was a pretty aggressive Ric bass finger plucker. Especially on the first albums.

That would be Geddy Lee.

Hey, just because he was the reason I bought a jg4001 in the first place, doesn't mean I have to know his name

marc61 wrote:I always felt the guy from Rush(forget his name) was a pretty aggressive Ric bass finger plucker. Especially on the first albums.

I like Geddy Lee's sound from his Rickenbacker 4001 on the song "Countdown" from the Signals album. And he has a great sound on the Exit...Stage Left album. "Limelight" from the ESL video is pretty awesome and "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" on that video is sick too.

Also some of the tones on the Caress of Steel album from "The Necromancer" are really good too.

Most aggressive Ric tone? Listen Mark Walker records! http://www.myspace.com/markwalker

harleybacker wrote:Most aggressive Ric tone? Listen Mark Walker records! http://www.myspace.com/markwalker

+1

Warhorse - ... As Heaven Turns To Ash

Look it up.

2112 wrote:I like Geddy Lee's sound from his Rickenbacker 4001 on the song "Countdown" from the Signals album. And he has a great sound on the Exit...Stage Left album. "Limelight" from the ESL video is pretty awesome and "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" on that video is sick too.

Yeah, Ged really tears it up during By-Tor. But you know, I would actually go all the way back to the version on All The World's A Stage for the heavy duty Rickenbacker tones. And while I'm at it, what about his very aggressive tone during the intro to Cygnus X-1 on the AFTK album? Somehow I can't quite get that sound out of my 4003 and my ancient Yamaha amp that's never seen a vacuum tube in its life.

Less Rushy but equally mainstream, I'd suggest Squires's crunching sound on Long Distance Runaround, particularly those descending slides he does on the E string.

And one I've just thought of: isn't it his jetglo 4008 we hear Joe Satriani playing on Echo, from Surfing With The Alien? I always liked that meaty growl.