4003FL: Updated Pics

[jingle_jangle]

Nice Joshua!

I did something similar a few years ago with a trashed '76 I picked up locally.. I called it my 4001/4000 conversion. I sold the bass to Paul W.

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( I always wondered if Paul has worked his magic on it?)

Scott: Yes, I took several years to find the parts and fiddle with it, and it ended up as this...ironically, a fretless...

[Tigger]

Hey Cassius, how did you go about sourcing the 4000-style scratchplate? I'm contemplating scratchplates for my 4001V63s with master volume pot and master tone pot in the same location as on a 4000 (always get screwed up by axes with multiple volume pots and tone pots!) I basically need a 4001V63 scratchplate but with just the two control holes in the different locations. I raised with Chandlers, but they don't seem to know the location of the pots on a 4000. Is there anything you can suggest as regards locating these holes on a 4001V63 scratchplate (e.g. distance at right-angle to a straight line between two screw-holes, or similar)?

[sloop_john_b]

I think he mentioned that he got it from "Tony", aka Pickguardian. Tony has long been one of the foremost purveyors of accurate Rick pickguard and the famous Signature guards.

[Tigger]

Hey, thanks for that, John – I'll look up Pickguardian and try and float it past him.

[ajish4]

Very cool bass Paul,

Glad to see you appreciate a "CLEAN" bass!

Love the fingerboard and the black trim to boot.

CB is always a hit.

Neat!

[jingle_jangle]

Tony, I knew that Scott was sad to see it go, and wanted to do it justice when I resurrected it...

[T.A.R.]

Paul you did do it justice, That is beautiful!

[rickenbrother]

Tony, I knew that Scott was sad to see it go, and wanted to do it justice when I resurrected it...

I hope I didn't get any droll on it at SCARF. Sorry if I did!

[ilan]

Hey Paul W, those are Roto Trubass strings, right? I absolutely love them! Organic tone... perfect on my '64 Gretsch 6070. I would LOVE to hear a sound sample of that fretless Ric.

[jingle_jangle]

Tony, I knew that Scott was sad to see it go, and wanted to do it justice when I resurrected it...

I hope I didn't get any droll on it at SCARF. Sorry if I did!

You're just a "droll" guy, Joey!

[jingle_jangle]

Hey Paul W, those are Roto Trubass strings, right? I absolutely love them! Organic tone... perfect on my '64 Gretsch 6070. I would LOVE to hear a sound sample of that fretless Ric.

Ilan--

With no frets, nice, long scale, a HS and those strings you can be sure of two things:

1. No nasty marks on that yummy fingerboard

2. Close-to-acoustic tone

I love the tone. Impossible to capture in an mp3, but I should try, huh?

Notice I say "fingerboard" for once? That's 'cause it ain't got frets. As far as I'm concerned, violins, violas, cellos, and upright basses all have fingerboards. So does this instrument. Anything with frets has a fretboard.

Yep.

[jdogric12]

Anything with frets has a fretboard.

Yep.

I don't think I've ever even thought of that before.

[cheyenne]

That is so freaking cool Paul!!!!!!!!!

I saw that "fretless Shadow" a while back and had no idea it was the one I sold you. Thanks for sharing the information.

You truely have a gift.

[jingle_jangle]

Thanks very much, Scott, and I'm very pleased to have shared it with you!

...took me awhile for my memory banks to retrieve what else I was gonna say. It meanders OT, but is tagentially sortaapplicable OK:

My favorite acoustic bass line, for tone and just plain intimate, in-the-room greatness, is the one that sits out front in the mix in Bonnie Raitt's sweet, sumptuous, stripped-down version of "Baby Mine" from the Stay Awake compilation CD (1988). I want to think it's Charlie Haden--sure has his feel and tone, but I can't recall where I heard it was him. Credit for accompaniment and production, however, goes to Was/Not Was and Don Was, but in any case the song is a stunner and is my reference for memorable recorded acoustic bass sound. I haven't heard it in a couple of years--shame on me--so maybe my memory exceeds its true presence, but whatever I remember has become my standard of comparison.

Now, to the CD itself: It's a compilation/tribute to Disney songs, done by both likely and unlikely performers, each adding a unique spin to some very familiar source material. Imagine David Johansson (New York Dolls) as Buster Poindexter, performing "In a Castle in Spain" with an evil glint, or Los Lobos doing the "Monkey Song" from Jungle Book in purest fun. Tom Waits gives a wrenching Renfield 270-degree twist to "Heigh Ho" (the Seven Dwarves' song from Snow White). Imagine uber (under?) waif Suzanne Vega singing "Stay Awake" a capella, or (and I know a lot of you are gonna love this...) Sinead O'Connor whisper-singing "Someday my Prince Will Come".

I'm a Disney Cynic, Certified, who took my families to Disneyland twice a year, just to prove to myself that I could still suspend my disbelief, ignore Iowa in California and become a child again, if only for a semi-day. This CD had me grinning from the first time I heard it, until the last time I listened, and hundreds of times in between. There's not a bad track on it, IMO. In fact, I only wish that Brian Wilson and Keith Richards had participated. Brian could have done "Dance With My Father", and Keith "A Pirate's Life for Me"...

Many, many thanks to Tom Schnabel, who, as host of KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" back in the 1980s, turned me onto this CD and many, many others of equal note.

[jps]

Love the...black trim...

Neat!

TC loves something that is black Jetglo???