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Again, that's a problem. What you see ain't necessarily what you get. "Videos" of performances, both historical and current, are not proof of the instrument lineup in the recording studio. Some cases where it is obvious like Squire and McCartney may be exceptions.

"So I'd like to ask the bass-players here to nominate tunes which they know (or at least surmise) to include a Rickenbacker bass."

Looks like I could use a little more "knowing", and a little less "surmising".
btw, looking forward to the book - that has to be a fun and challenging project!

Nazareth-This flight tonight (with the slanted J-PUs modified FG 4001 from their producer Roger Glover)

Not all that well known outside the UK/Europe, but one of my faves... my friend Colin Pattenden of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Colin was an avid 4001 player. His '71 JG became quite unique too as the pickguard was replaced with one of aluminium, hand engraved by Zemaitis engraver Danny O'Brien. Almost all of the band's catalogue featured the bass... here's a couple vids from the "Solar Fire" LP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZQtveTgDI (Solar Fire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irDwxli5xn8 (Father of Day, Father of Night/Bob Dylan)

Mike Rutherford (Genesis) on both the Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot LPs used a FG RM... here's a great vid of Fountains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orSrE8yowQk

Also anything from The Flaming Groovie's (4001) and It's A Beautiful Day (4005).

cheyenne wrote:Starcastle's "Lady of the Lake" is pretty good. Gary Strater split his time between Rickenbacker and Alembic.

strater had a '68 or '69 fireglo. great crunchy rick sound.

I'd add a vote for Tool's Prison Sex and Sober, Motorhead's Ace of Spades and Spacehog's In The Meantime.......and would also like to add Metallica's Anesthesia/Pulling Teeth (certainly not the "traditional" Ric tone but no problem hearing the bass).

'Standing In The Road' - Blackfoot Sue. Owners of vintage Rickenbackers with a nervous disposition should close their eyes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWaJ6vNyvaw

86kubicki wrote:Paul - I think any songs will need to have some provenance as to whether they were actually performed with a Rickenbacker. For instance, although the Spinal Tap movie shows a Ric bass being used for in a video clip "Flower People", its doubtful that it was actually used for the recording.

that was a mapleglo 4003 with 1" spacer.

superdick2112 wrote:

sloop_john_b wrote:

superdick2112 wrote:Golden Earring - Radar Love

Nowhere in the gear section of his website does he mention a Rick bass: http://www.golden-earring.nl/rinus/

Now that's odd, because the bass he's playing here looks kind of familiar....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRa3RtBiIU

just because there is a particular instrument used in a vid, does not necessarily mean it was used on the original recording or by the time the promo vid was done, the musician's guitar line-up changed.
the guitarist kooymans, used a les paul custom on the original track, but used a dan armstrong ampeg plexi in the vid. i've been known to use different basses in my vids than recordings cause i wanted to show off a particular bass. actually, all the KiLLeR DWaRf vids i did had basses not used in the original recordings.

I guess you can't blame 'ol Rinus for using a Ric in the "Radar Love" video . The Ric rates a "10" on the photogenic sexy scale, while the Dano only rates about a "2".

Yes's "Machine Messiah" is one of the most "in yer face" Rickenbacker moments around...
Kate's "Wuthering Heights" has David Patton's 4001 speaking clearly as well (best to hear the original, rather than the "New Vocal" which has the good 80s vocal and also has the rather bad 80s reverb murking up the overall mix)
Klaatu's "Calling occupants of interplanetery craft" nice flatwoundy 4001 sound.
Marillion's "Grendel" Pete Trewavas's 4000 punching through...

And plenty more...

Wow -- a lot of tunes/bassists mentioned here. Cool ! Enough info to be a book in itself.

I might suggest adding a couple of tunes from the Hautewerk CD to the listing .... Stop Start Again

I have not read through all the posts, so if these have been mentioned already, too bad!

Just a few possibilities:
Genesis - Battle Of Epping Forest, Watcher Of The Skies
Renaissance - Scheherezade, A Song For All Seasons, Can You Understand?
Any early Yes, really, think about the first two albums, in particular.

weemac wrote:Marillion's "Grendel" Pete Trewavas's 4000 punching through...

And more of Pete's work on Script For a Jester's Tear. I've always been very fond of
Garden Party and Chelsea Monday.

A great picture from wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... wavas1.jpg

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