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Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:31 pm
by marc61
If you want to be a punk rocker...I highly recommend the Rickenbacker...
love it for punk
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:32 pm
by DanJ
Tarrbot wrote: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?"
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 3:47 am
by 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!
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:05 am
by just_bassics
Heart of the Sunrise by Yes... Then I soak my hands for an hour
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:40 am
by iamthebassman
My first thought was "Something" by The Beatles. Great bass part, and it's in the set most every night.
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:35 am
by peewee
iamthebassman wrote: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!
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:07 pm
by beatledust19
"South Side Of The Sky" by Yes has quickly become a new favorite.
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:36 pm
by 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.
Re: Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:23 pm
by 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!