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walker wrote:Cool photo and a great story, Roy! Welcome to the RRF.

+1 Roy. Cool story indeed. Say, did the two horror writers draw on their experiences from being in the band?

walker wrote:Cool photo and a great story, Roy! Welcome to the RRF.

Hey Roy, great photo. Do you hve any current pics of your bass?

walker wrote:Cool photo and a great story, Roy! Welcome to the RRF.

++1....Great shot/story Roy....

4001_kenobie wrote:Hey Folks, here's a link to the new Vandas video, for our new single out this week. Features my V63, and Bassman 100 in a few shots, and was the bass and amp used on the recording. For all the Melbourneites(?), our album launch is on the 13th Sept at the East Brunswick Club...



and new Vandas website at

http://www.thevandas.com, where you can stream the new rekkid and our back catalogue.

Enjoy! jc

Sounds cool.
See if I can make it... Melbourne's just down the road.

Andrew, thanks for the music. You guys really rock! Best of luck to you.

Welcome to the forum, Roy.

4001_kenobie wrote:
Hey Roy, great photo. Do you hve any current pics of your bass?

Hey thanks for the warm welcome, everyone! Kenobie, here's a recent shot - I still keep it in very good condition. The "rainbow" next to the pickguard was used in PCO to denote whose equipment was whose, and I liked the way it looked so I kept it on. This of course was long before the rainbow was adopted as a symbol of gay pride. Not that there's anything wrong with that ... <G>

johnallg wrote:

walker wrote:Cool photo and a great story, Roy! Welcome to the RRF.

+1 Roy. Cool story indeed. Say, did the two horror writers draw on their experiences from being in the band?

John,
I don't think so, they wrote some -really- gory stuff that ended up defining a new form of written horror, called "splatterpunk". The band was pretty interesting progressive music - some people said we should have been called "Crosby Stills, Nash and Yes" because there was a lot of Yes influence.

Thanks for the nice welcome to the forum.
Roy

Roy, CSN&Yes... Any recordings from back then? Sounds most interesting.

I haven't posted much here at RRF, just occassionally lurking for the past several years, but recently I began reading more and stumbled across this thread, which appealed to me as a long-time bass player. I actually took the time to look at every page of this thread just to see all of your beautiful Ric basses - I suppose that says something about me that I would spend so much time looking at photos of guitars! I know that when a new Ric owner shows up here at the forum s/he usually describes his/her guitars, but I thought I would put a twist on that - I'll post a photo of my Ric bass and let you guys guess the year/model. Sorry, I don't have a pic of me playing it, but you're not missing anything.

I'd guess that it's a 4001, sometime between 1975-82?

Roy's bass appears to be pre May '75 due to the 1/2" pickup spacing.

Ruben, it looks like my '77 4001. Am I warm?

byu wrote:Roy's bass appears to be pre May '75 due to the 1/2" pickup spacing.

The bass in question has 1" spacing! It also has the fatter horns so I sez late '70s- early '80s.

1978 4001MG.