Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Oh, and I bet when you guys were 20, you were guzzling finely aged port?

Yep! Genuine '33 Seppelts Para and some excellent Sandeman vintages.

Light beer? Phtht!!

John, kinda the same with me. I wasn't a beer drinker until I turned 21, though those in Santa Ana might think otherwise! Before, it was all Bombay Sapphire and...herbal stuff.

Light beer...might as well just drink seltzer.

I used to do the American beers. Then in the late 70s a couple week trip to Germany ruined beers here. Thank goodness for the pacific northwest and micro breweries... Now the US makes beer as good as anywhere on the planet. If ever around Deleware look for Dogfish Head - good brew. I don't have any pictures of me playin with a beer thou so I guess I'm off topic? ;->

Got some more pics from the show:


Mesmerized! Must have seen the beer coming my way.


The money shot!

And finally, from one vice to another - this is the only bar in the area that allows smoking indoors. Illegally, of course. I just HAD to have a cig during one of our songs.

Hey, John, use the headstock as a ashtray and you can "relic" that into a real classic - I hear the price goes WAY up!!

Oh, great pics - looks like a really fun time.

John, I'm kind of ash-amed to admit, but I did!

I can't help it if it holds cigs really well!

John, great pics, I noticed you're protecting the back of your masterpiece while gigging and I have a lot of respect for that. If you're lucky you won't have this in thirty years- (the front of this looks really good though)

Mark, looks like one of those expensive "relic" models. An authentic hard working rock bass you have there.

Funny, I like battle worn instruments and Harleys. Goes well with my good looks.

Yea Gary, someone got some use out of this "relic" but it wasn't me, I plan on preserving this specimen so someone in the year 2033 can appreciate a 60 year old rick. Expensive?, could be, right now there is no price that could met on it's worth to me.

That's what the back of my '68 looks like. I don't get how basses get all beaten up. I don't particularly baby my instruments, and God knows I play a lot of gigs and sessions, but they never seem to get all worn like a lot of instruments I see. They manage to stay in pretty much the same shape that I got them in.

Physiology and styles have a lot to do with it. Back in the '70s, I used to wear my belt buckle (you remember, they were huge in those bell-bottom days) off to my left side so I wouldn't scratch the back of the bass. 30 years later, I have little risk of scratching with my belt due to the front porch that I've grown to protect my instruments. In fact, I have trouble seeing one of them, these days.

Paul, That was a memory flashback. I used to wear my belt buckle off to the side as well. I had forgotten all about that. I now wear my bass so high, I need not worry about a belt buckle.

Yeah, if I wore at low as I did back then, it would tilt over about 20 degrees and I'd break my wrists playing it. I could "suck it up" but then I wouldn't be able to breathe!

I used to wear the belt buckle to the side also.