Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

red_rob wrote:Easy Robert. When Joy Division started out they were a very young and hard-up-on-cash group of naive lads. Being a Manchester boy myself, I can assure you that it aint that easy to get hold of affordable Rickenbackers in the town - never mind 25 years ago when the place was pretty down on itself.

I must concurr. I was seventeen and playing a real 4001 when Joy Division first appeared, but it's hard to appreciate just how expensive the real thing was in the UK in those days. I had a good job (phone company) and was making 25 pounds a week gross, about eighteen net. My Autumglo 4001 cost 450 pounds - half a years total wages! I paid it off at five pounds a week by playing "pop and standards" in factory social clubs. . . .

rob wrote:Good. Let him have all the ****** Rick copies, then. That goes to show how he thinks of instruments.

What a silly thing to say.
It was his second bass, bought when he was a young nobody. Oddly enuff, my second bass was a 4001FG copy(Electra), also bought when I was a young nobody, and I think I have pretty good taste in instruments.
I only wish I could afford what he plays nowadays.

Did I mention that was a silly thing to say? Or maybe it was snobish? Or perhaps elitist even? On the RRF? Never.

Skaface covers Joy Division:

http://rapidshare.com/files/456656400/2 ... _Apart.mp3