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Posted: **Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:39 pm**

It's the early stuck knob version.

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:34 am**

Who needs volume control? I want all the volume I can get!

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:53 am**

That's wrong on SO many levels.
But then again, so is this "base".
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3711877024&category=4713

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:56 am**

Jared ... it is not Eddie Van Halen ... it is the Eddie Munster look ...

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:59 am**

and I can't believe that someone actually bid on this popped fret board bad decaled ric ...

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:42 am**

The red one has the 80s vibe. If it were a proper finish, I wouldn't mind it at all. It would match my Charvel. As for the other one, you do have to wonder what gets in people's heads sometimes.

It would be nice to find a whole load of beat up old Rickys and refinish or retop them. If the original finish is shot, and they aren't really anything special, then why not?

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:52 am**

the dangers of late 60's LSD experimentation...

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:03 am**

Looks like something Eddy Van Halen would play, if he played bass. Didn't Michael Anthony have a real funky looking Ric in their early days? I remember seeing him onstage somewhere with one. (photo)

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:05 am**

naa ... a van halen bass would look like this ...

there was a guy making Kramer guitars that looked like those taped up things that Eddie played back in the 80's ... well Eddie's lawyers shut him down ...

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:51 pm**

I bet the volume knobs go to 11

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:44 pm**

"That's one louder than ten innit?"

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:20 pm**

Hang that red bass from a Steinberger swivel mount, attach swivel mount to a strap-on harness, and hire on to the band as a bass ball player.

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:25 pm**

is that a George "Steinberger" bass ball player?

Posted: **Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:38 am**

Phil said "strap on".

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What the heck happened?