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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:45 am
by rickfan60
Nice pictures Victor. What year is your Rick?
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:36 am
by freewheelin
Hi, Ted !
My Rick is a '73 with all the weird features of this transition year (toaster, grover tuners, checkered binding...)
I'd like to learn more about these series, but the RIC site isn't very "helpful"...
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:18 am
by paul_yan
Victor,
Is your baby an early~mid '73 (serial # MA~MF)?
4001's made during that time period have "transitional" features like toaster, grover tuners, checkered binding but non mother-of-pearl, edge-to-edge inlays.
Here's an article on the 400X series if you haven't read it yet.
http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/axtbassarticle2.html
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:29 pm
by titanic_tony
Here is one of me in 1979 with my March '78 4001.
Tony
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:36 pm
by baltimucho
Tommy Shaw played bass?
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:40 pm
by titanic_tony
Hey, now - I'm 6'3". But I did have pretty hair.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:48 pm
by baltimucho
Ah yes... A 4001 would be like a cello to Tommy.
So, what in the he!! happens to our hair as we get older?! Why can't it just stay long, flowing and sexy?! I mean, it's the whole reason our wives married us!
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:54 pm
by beatlefan
Hi Tony.....welcome to the forum!!
I'm gettin' a kind of Peter Frampton vibe while lookin' at that picture Tony....
Geeesh....in '79 , I was a senior in high school...I would have LOVED to have been able to grow hair like that!!
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:10 pm
by atomic_punk
I would have had to cut mine to make it that short
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:22 pm
by rickfan60
Welcome Tony. Cool pic, BTW.
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:19 am
by freewheelin
Thanks for the link, Paul !
My '73 is from March. When I bought it on eBay, people on this forum said it was a fake... But it's not
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:50 pm
by dean712
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum. Here is a pic of me playing my '03 Midnight Blue 4003 at a gig last weekend. This is a great forum, I really have enjoyed it since discovering it recently.
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:09 pm
by jps
Welcome Dean! You did your first post the way we all should have done so, with a pic!
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:50 pm
by dean712
Thanks for the welcome! Here is a pic that is a little less dark, albeit a bit grainy. It's my '00 MG. I have four 4003's of varying vintage and finish. I play in a rock/pop covers/originals band in Springfield, IL, USA.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:38 pm
by 12stringbassist
Blue Boy
