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Caught "Bravery" on Leno last night. Don't care for the goth Elvis singer, but the bass player had a Jetglo 4003 with a black pickguard down on his right knee. Sounded like a Rick, too, through the house's Ampeg SVT.

Then I surfed around and found the Bee Gees lip synching to "Jive Talking" on VH1 Classic. Maurice was fingering a nice Fireglo 4001 to what was obviously a synth bass line. Nice to see we aren't the only Rick bass fans!

I like some synth bass sounds. Some 80's basslines done with synths... I love the sound. But I'm glad they stop at C. Let a real bass handle lower.

seeing the Bee Gees playing Rics makes me want to play my p-bass ...

LOL!

In the UK there is a history of soul program in about 6 weekly episodes.

Last week they had Sly & The Family Stone with Larry Graham playing a really nice 4005 back in about 1971..?

He was really pulling off some good slap & pop stuff on it..! Not the first bass that springs to mind for that kind of playing.

Yeah, but it might be significant if it was determined to be the instrument he used on the recording of "Thankyou falettinme be mice elfe again," acknowledged as the first tune with slap/pop bass. Wouldn't that be interesting? Do you recall the finish of the 4005?

I wasn't really glued to the show so I cann't be 100% sure. It wasn't JG and I'm fairly sure it wasn't MG so.... I guess it was probably FG.

The crazy thing is I DO remember the clear thumb rest...!

They were talking about Larry Graham being the first person to use slap & pop style but not really showing much footage.... dohh...

"Jive Talking" is a great pop song with one of the coolest bass lines of the period. The E is tuned down to C to compliment the synth on the downbeat.
The beginning of the song is inspired by travelling across the Rickenbacker causeway in Miami in a car and hearing the "tacka-tacka" rhythm as the tyres go over the bridge sections...

Hi Paul - (great personalised scratchplate on that Rick pic you sent me, by the way!!) That was a Fireglo 4005 on that soul show Bob mentions; I just caught it on TV too - "thankyou..." was the track, and too me it seemed to have a larger, non standard scratchplate..wished I'd watched from the start - I wonder if anyone here has a picture of that bass in use?

I caught the show too and was surprised to see Larry Graham playing a 4005.

The headstock wasn't visible...it was just offscreen.

"The headstock wasn't visible...it was just offscreen"

Kind of like this?

I always though "Jive Talking" was cool too, I remember the first time I heard it.

I didn't know Larry Graham looked like Jeffrey Scott!

Paul... were the Bravery playing that song, "An Honest Mistake"? If that's the one I'm thinking of (it's a new song), I like that one and will have to listen for the Rick sound next time around....

The Bravery were on a UK show a couple of months ago...'Later with Jools Holland'.

They played two songs and the bass player used a Jetglo Ric with black pickguard on song, and he used a white one with black guard on the other.

He obviously likes his Rics....good choice I'd say!

Exactly like that Jeff