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No, he's just tired of the topic. My apologies. I did try to steer it back to the 60's.

How about those Animals? Anyone a fan? And outside of greatest hits compilations, are their early albums still available?

No I had written a post, though better of it and deleted it and that was the result. That will probably the favorite post of mine for a lot of members, haha! I wish I had known about the edit button a long time ago.

A good deal of The Animals stuff is still available on CD.

Any suggestions of what I should start with? While Greatest Hits compilations are always handy to have, I've usually disliked them as they don't properly flow. I want the warts and all of the artists original albums.

their first two albums Animals and Animal Tracks, they only released about 4,are available in UK on a 2 on 1 CD at a reasonable £7.99 in proper money(only kidding) I could get it for you idf you want but then cost of posting to states would need to be added

However there is a site in US that presently have a great compilation The Singles plus 41 tracks for $13.99 only 1 copy in stock nad they don't pay me to advertise but if interested in either let me know offlist or whatever.

Yeah The animals are great, they just played here in Boston Saturday night and I had to play unfortunately. I have a lot of their stuff on LP and tape, nothing on CD. Eric Burdon is one of the all time greats to my mind.

Appreciate it. I will search the better music stores for the titles you've suggested.

Bob

I make an assumption that The Animals you refer to, were Eric Burdon's. In UK The Animals who still do the rounds contian just one original member in John Steel the drummer.There again Eric's version will only contain one original, himself. Hilton Valentine was in Steel's version but like so many groups friction occured and Valentine quit.

Yeah, I think they're billed as Eric Burdon and The Animals. I loved Chas Chandlers bass playing and sound.

I've often wondered with CCR's bass tone how much the RIC pickup he put in there contributed? And when in his career that he put it in? Any comments??

Greg: He played through a 15 inch speaker, some of the time, that he has stated was to his liking. Certainly the bridge humbucking pickup and the 15 inch would have produced more of a bass tone than a 12 inch with the stock toaster at the bridge. Also, a closed back cabinet sure adds to the bassy tonality. But I am sending coals to Newcastle in discussing this with you.

He used a Ric 4001 on at least the first album, maybe the 2nd. I'm confused, I always thought he had a Ric toaster at the neck of a P bass after his Ric days with a regular P bass pickup.

Thats what I was talking about...his P bass with the RIC toaster in it. Sorry I wasn't specific! I wonder how much the RIC toaster in the P bass contributed to his sound, and when he started using that bass instead of the RIC he used earlier?

Even though some people call a P bass pickup humbucking it is really two single coils in series I think and they sound like single coils. I never understood why he got such an indistinct sound out of his P bass. The ric sounded much clearer and much deeper.

When did he use the RIC and when did he use the P bass?