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Welcome Brian from a fellow Steeltowner!

Thanks for the welcome Bill...

My current RIC's are a 1991 JG 610 and a 1980 FG 620/12.. What do you play?

Randy Hill, who played on one of my folk CD's has an early 80's 320.. and I know that Grant Avenue Studio has a 360 and a 330/12 in their stock... Owner/engineer Bob Doidge plays an old early 60's 4000 bass...

That's the only other folks locally I know who own them...

A few years back I was stunned when someone sold a JG 1964 625 out of Hamilton on Ebay.. Who would have thought such a rare bird was in town.

Back in the early 80's I missed a 1958 Capri (330 style) for $350. One of the teachers at Waddington's Music on John street North was selling it, and I was ten minutes too late getting there. Bill Dillon, (of Ian Thomas and the Boomers) got there before me alas... I think that Waddington's was a RIC dealer in the sixties.. It was sanded down to the maple from the original fireglow... But it had the gold TRC and pickguard, first time I had ever seen that... Oh for what might have been!

Brian

Hi Brian,

Welcome to the forum. You will quickly discover that you are amongst friends here...........

Thanks Brian... Yes i can tell that already... I feel very welcome indeed..

For years I had no one around who appreciated my addiction to these guitars... My Mom never understood why these were so important to me...

She used to give me major grief about buying them when I was 17...

B

...I know the feeling. I guess that is why I am the way I am these days!

BTW, I got my first Rick when I was 17:

Brian - I too don't know of any other locals that play Rics. I know Randall Hill and I think he got rid of his (I could be wrong). When I was shopping for my Ric, MIke Spicer told me about a Hamilton guy who was considering selling his 1997. I probably would have bought it but I was counting on the long wait period to come up with the cash. In any event, it's certainly not a guitar you see too much in these parts. I get lots of questions about it when I pull it out at gigs.

BTW, you're not the guy who used to help run the Brantford Folk Club are you?

I played the Brantford Folk Club many times over the years.. Mostly when Don and Brenda McGough ran it... But I was never involved with running it... You may be thinking of the Brian that used to run Angel Cave Recording... I used to do the folk club circuit often, Hamilton at the Gown and then the Pheasent plucker, Brantford, Caledonia, and the Black Walnut in Kitchener... I have fallen off the circuit though, and I don't play much publicly anymore.. I did the singer/songwriter thing in the early 90's, and got some airplay on the CBC, but that was about it....

I haven't been active as a musician really for the last 8-10 years. But I still play... The advantage of the electrics is that I can plug it into the computer late at night and make lots of noise on the headphones without annoying the neighbors..

B

Jeffery:

That is one GORGEOUS bass.. Wow!

Me I just have a 70's Hofner 500/1... a short scale neck for a guitar player and McCartney wannabe..

B

We're not quite Canadian, but in this part of Montana, I think we're mostly confused, all of the "official" buildings and other places that fly flags have both U.S. and Canada flags up. Heck, we go shopping in Swift Current, SK, because it's biggest city within 200 miles! Sure, some people think 16,000 people isn't big, but it's about 9 times the size of our town, Malta, MT.

Anyway, I keep hoping someone will decide to hold a Confluence or Rick Fest somewhere like Calgary or Regina so I can have half a chance of going!

Ontario_RIC_fan wrote:Me I just have a 70's Hofner 500/1... a short scale neck for a guitar player and McCartney wannabe..

B

I recently bought a 500/1V63, and I actually use it with the Lemon Antennas.

Welcome Brian! Jeff's bass is even more impressive live and up close. But don't get too close! I had the opportunity to play John B-now-Graham G's 4005 at MARF III and they are fantastic sounding and playing basses. I am not a bass player, but I would definitely become one with one of those. Special instruments.

Jeff has a 4005WB? I had no idea!

That's a cool picture... The great thing about how well constructed RIC basses are, is that you can always use them to bludgeon someone, if you suddenly find yourself in a life or death struggle with another player on who gets to play the bass solo on MY GENERATION say..

B

Ontario_RIC_fan wrote:That's a cool picture... The great thing about how well constructed RIC basses are, is that you can always use them to bludgeon someone, if you suddenly find yourself in a life or death struggle with another player on who gets to play the bass solo on MY GENERATION say..

B

Or with Won't Get fooled Again night... right Jeff?