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Any other pics of it floating around?

First one I've ever seen Henny...Got any more, or a larger version of that one you could send me...

Besides the one that he cut in half, that is the only picture I have ever seen him playing a Ric bass.

Dave: Mike used a 4005 quite a bit all three times I saw Genesis in the late '70s.

4005? Are you sure, I've never seen a pic of him playing a 4005. I believe he stuck with the Shergold doubleneck and a Hagström 8-string (for "I Know What I Like") in the late seventies. What year it was Dave?

Maybe it was this????

I saw Mike first in 1975 right after PG had left Genesis. He used a 4005 on a few tunes -- I know because I ran down to the front of the stage to see what he was using as bass pedals -- the Moog Taurus I, which I ordered the next day. He used mostly the Ric doubleneck pictured above, though. There is a pic of his 4001 Fireglo on a stand at this website www.sinfoniasideral.hpg.ig.com.br/genesis.html, which is all in Portuguese but has plenty of Genesis pics. I haven't seen a pic of his using a 4005, but I'm sure he did -- at least briefly.

Dave, great site;

You can see the 4001 in this picture.

His Fireglo appears to have some orange in it. Nice!

I don't recall seeing Mike play a 4005 either, and I saw Genesis every time they came to Cleveland frome April '72 through the Wind & Wuthering tour. That would be seven or eight times (or was that 7 of 9 times ) As I have owned one since '73 I would have noticed that, but then it was the early '70s and we did kind a party a bit!

The mapleglo is a 360 12-string guitar.

Dave, if you saw Mike and Genesis on "Trick Of The Tail" tour I'm pretty sure he used his Micro-Frets/Rickenbacker 6-string bass/12-string guitar doubleneck which he used for the Lamb tour too.

http://users.cableaz.com/~lantz/pix/ruthbig.jpg

He also had this guitar for the tour but didn't use it much and after that switched to Shergolds.

http://www.genesismuseum.com/mags/joker77.jpg

So I'm still not believing you

The fireglo looks like a 67 shade rather than a 64, but it has the short taper to the horseshoe surround which is usually one of the first batch of RM1999 basses.
It has a couple of holes in the upper pickguard too, where a rest was probably at one time. Good pix guys!

There's a shot of Rutherford palying a Rick bass in the artwork of "Seconds Out" IIRC. Probably that fireglow 4001s...