Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:49 pm
By the way, welcome aboard, Tim! Quite a collection you've got there! 
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Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:59 pm
Why didn't you buy it, Robert?
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:11 pm
Because, for the life of me, I just can't STRETCH like a bass player! 
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:22 pm
Do I have the bass for you, then!Folkie wrote:Because, for the life of me, I just can't STRETCH like a bass player!
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:25 pm
Holiday RAS has already set in! Don't tempt me!
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:09 pm
This bass is easy to play, even Warren felt he could actually play bass when he played it. Does this help?Folkie wrote:Holiday RAS has already set in! Don't tempt me!
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:21 pm
Hmm. Sounds enticing! Please tell me it has frets!
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:54 am
It has frets and even TI Jazz Flats string on it.
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:27 am
Do the TI Flats make it play more smoothly?
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:19 am
Come check it out! I am home all this week.
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:59 pm
Welcome aboard Tim, any pics to share?
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:06 pm
I think TI flats have the ability to smooth out the surface of the moon!!Folkie wrote:Do the TI Flats make it play more smoothly?
Snow White came with them strung on her, alas I'm not a flats type of guy so I sent them back to Paul B. To each his own! 
Sepp
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:23 pm
Jeff,
I'm insanely busy this week, but maybe we can work in a visit. The thing is, as far as bass playing goes, I wouldn't know where to start. 
I suppose I could bring over one of my 12'ers so you could hear the Janglebox really shine. But I don't even know where the notes are on a bass neck!
In the interests of having a stress-free holiday, I've decided to postpone the mods on both my Ric 12's until after the New Year. One is a routine pickup swap: scatterwounds and covers for the existing hi gains. The other, which I discussed with you, is more complicated, as it involves creating a new nut and notching a new bridge for my stock 360/12, using that C63 at Sam Ash as a prototype.
By the way, I think that lovely bass at Sam Ash is a new 4003. Could you tell me a little about the 4003 model?
Robert
I'm insanely busy this week, but maybe we can work in a visit.
The thing is, as far as bass playing goes, I wouldn't know where to start. I suppose I could bring over one of my 12'ers so you could hear the Janglebox really shine. But I don't even know where the notes are on a bass neck! In the interests of having a stress-free holiday, I've decided to postpone the mods on both my Ric 12's until after the New Year. One is a routine pickup swap: scatterwounds and covers for the existing hi gains. The other, which I discussed with you, is more complicated, as it involves creating a new nut and notching a new bridge for my stock 360/12, using that C63 at Sam Ash as a prototype.
By the way, I think that lovely bass at Sam Ash is a new 4003. Could you tell me a little about the 4003 model?
Robert
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:13 pm
I'll go to Sam Ash tomorrow, probably late morning to check it out, maybe bring the v63 if the temperature is not insanely cold like today.
Playing bass is easy! it only has 4 strings on it. What am I saying? 
I can teach you the basics, Robert, it really is not difficult to get going, and the strings and note positions are the same as the bottom four (8 in your case) strings of a guitar in EADG tuning.
Playing bass is easy! it only has 4 strings on it.
What am I saying? I can teach you the basics, Robert, it really is not difficult to get going, and the strings and note positions are the same as the bottom four (8 in your case) strings of a guitar in EADG tuning.
Re: My name is Brother Firefingers, and I am a Ric addict...
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14 pm
They're the same place as on a guitar neck, only lower...Folkie wrote:But I don't even know where the notes are on a bass neck!
Robert
No, really. On a standard 4 string, it's just the same as the lower 4 strings on a guitar E, A, D, G...