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Nice, Rob!! Where's ya tie??

Awesome pic....

Flung it off Aitch - tough day at the office relieved in the only way...

I tend to head to the fridge first, Rob! Then the "Rick room".

I know that chord!

Cool pics, guys...
(chokin')

Rob you resemble Eric Burdon to me.

The "epileptic on a pogo stick"??!? Thanks very much Brian!?!?

I might have to post a more flattering picture...

Methinks it was a compliment, Rob...

Me and my trusty 1980 4001 L/H.



Yes, I can reach the knobs.

Very cool.

Here I am at a show last Sat. night

Abbott, it's great to see another lefty! But what's with the pillow? You in the dog house?

Peter, there are no potential doghouse excursions in my life. I have total freedom,including having whatever pillows I like on my couch. If I had a "significant other" it would by pretty unlikely I'd be having an Ampeg SVT in the living room along with my 8 foot speakers. Now if you noticed the other bass in the photo I'd by truly impressed. Lefties- "the only people in their right minds". From day 1 when a friend handed me his bass-"no you are holding it the wrong way" it just didn't feel "right" holding it like a righty. Funny how that is-it really shouldn't matter when you are a beginner, you still have to develop dexterity in both hands, yet like I said, it just didn't feel "right" holding it the other way. So I borrowed a spare righty from my buddy, did not restring it, and proceeded to learn with the strings upside down. After about 6 months playing, I took the plunge into my first lefty-the Ric you see in the photo-boy I was scared at the beginning-I knew nothing all over again, but persistence paid off. I can still pick up righties and play them a bit. I get a lot of looks and comments in music stores doing this. I tell them "if there was a lefty in the house I'd pick it up". It's tough picking out what you like in a bass by trying out the righties and then deciding to special order a lefty. Luckily, when my Ric arrived, I liked the way it felt even though I couldn't really play it at first. Yes we live in a righty world, and when my Ric arrived, I didn't realize it was going to have a "righty headstock". I thought "couldn't they have made me a "real" lefty"? Then at some point after getting it, I noticed Macca's was the same way-if he didn't get a "lefty neck", there was no way I was going to get one. Nowadays, I love the "upside down" headstock. I get a laugh too when friends pick it up and grown about it being such a beauty and not being able to play it-"now you know how I feel" I tell them.