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Ric Painting

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:32 am
by lowendbob
I purchased a really cool guitar painting from this seller before, and I suggested she should do some Ric paintings and offer them for sale on EBay.
The last one she painted, I was outbidded. I gave her another idea about painting the Magical Mystery Tour bass, and it looks like she took me up on the idea.
Very nice lady, and I told her I would help give her some exposure to us RIC enthusiast.
So here it is.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7334536036&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
The painting didn't turn out as I invisioned it. I guess I do not have an appreciation for abstact art. Anyway, I hope I am not breaking any forum rules by posting this. I just thought some members might be interested in her painting.
Cheers! Image

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:47 am
by lowendbob
Man, I need a spell checker! Image

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:43 am
by kingkerouac
It is meant to be abstract....isn't it?

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:30 am
by iamthebassman
OK, is it just me or...does that painting look a lot like this picture of my bass? The way it's cropped, the "incorrect" use of teal instead of Paul's silver/grey, the swirly part of the teal was my idea and not copied from Paul's. Whadaya think?
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:38 am
by bob_the_bass
Too much of a coincidence !!

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:38 am
by lowendbob
Doh, Yea Ronn that's your bass. I think I may have sent her your picture to use instead of a pic of Paul's.
Hope you don't mind.

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:46 am
by iamthebassman
Here's the photo of the finished painting. I just bought it. This is kind of a mindf*ck, I read somewhere(probably here)that several years back Mr. Hall approached Paul about an official Ric 4001MMT special edition, and said Paul is very touchy about the paintjob he did on his Ric bass and didn't want it to be copied. Ok, so I copied it to a point, adding my own slight changes, now a complete stranger has unknowingly done a painting of MY bass, not Paul's! And now it's mine.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:36 am
by lowendbob
It turned a pretty cool Ronn.
Congratulations!

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:48 am
by iamthebassman
Bob, thanks for getting the ball rolling. I'm starved for decent images of Paul's MMT bass and now I have an original painting of MY bass, very cool. My wife and I are buying a house, we move in the end of this month, I know the first thing I'm hanging on the wall. Thanks again.