Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?

[marc61]

If you want to be a punk rocker...I highly recommend the Rickenbacker...

love it for punk

[DanJ]

Oh, and Dan? Queen didn't do My Sharona last I checked, unless they did a cover of it.

Oops! Me and my fumble fingers! I forgot to insert the band's name! That was The Knack and now I gotta ask: Was that a Rick bass on the recording of "Sharona?"

[Tarrbot]

Sure looks like one from this zoomed out distance.

And a lot of punks played Rics. Mainly due to their relatively low cost in the late 70s / early 80s.

[spongebob]

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Actually, the Doors had a bass player in the studio, many if not most of their studio recordings have electric string bass on them. Give the albums a good listen, you'll see![/quote]

Incidentally, I played bass for a while in a Doors tribute band, the UK Doors.

I found the tracks really enjoyable to play Ric bass over, particularly 'Five To One', 'Love Me Two Times' etc.

Didn't really start out as a fan, but by the end, some of that stuff had really grown on me!

[just_bassics]

Heart of the Sunrise by Yes... Then I soak my hands for an hour

[iamthebassman]

My first thought was "Something" by The Beatles. Great bass part, and it's in the set most every night.

[peewee]

My first thought was "Something" by The Beatles. Great bass part, and it's in the set most every night.

McCartney's "masterpiece" IMHO. Great choice, Ronn!

[beatledust19]

"South Side Of The Sky" by Yes has quickly become a new favorite.

[pacealot]

Oddly, when I diddle around lately with other "famous" songs/riffs at sound check and such, the Squire ones that have been bubbling up have been ones he played on some of his non-Ricks, like the middle section of "Parallels," "Lucky Seven," and "Does It Really Happen?"

Also lately, it seems I can't pick up any 4-stringed bass without playing the riffs from "Female Drummer" by Steeleye Span. And if photographic/videographic inference is correct, that actually is a Rick 1999 that Ashley Hutchings was using.

[deblase4001]

A song I've been playing lately that sounds really good using my 4001 is poison whiskey by lynyrd skynyrd. Very fun song to play!