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This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:58 am
by rickaddict
...for somebody else!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ritter-Roya-5-Strin ... dZViewItem
BLECH!
I'm sure it plays really well, and sounds great to someone, and looks really neat to someone...and I'm sure someone will be offended by this post, but.....Damn!!!!
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:02 pm
by teeder
Yuck! I'll stick to my traditional, out-dated-design basses.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:05 pm
by twangs
Be careful when you play it, or you'll poke your eye out!
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:16 pm
by rikk
Looks like something warped in Photoshop, only thing it's real.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:51 pm
by qwezirider
I love the color and would absolutely go bonkers if Rick did something with quilted maple. Just dreaming about a perfect world with no backlog. Aside from that, gads, what an interesting shape.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:58 pm
by phlemmy
I've played one similar. It's absolutely incredible.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:22 pm
by iamthebassman
One too many strings
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:29 pm
by teeder
+1!
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:39 pm
by brycycle
hmmm...could use a few more bolts to hold that neck on...
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:39 pm
by wints
Christ, that's ugly...
Just an opinion...
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:50 pm
by rickaddict
brycycle wrote:hmmm...could use a few more bolts to hold that neck on...
And a few more knobs and switches too!
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:09 pm
by danomar
They're definitely different, but I've played a fretted one and it was very nice indeed.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:15 pm
by jingle_jangle
That was photographed underwater, right?
In South America, you see nothing but these Hobbit basses, although Jo Soares' (Brasil's better answer to Jay Leno) bass player, who's about 50, plays a Music Man Sting Ray.
This guy Ritter is an amazing craftsman, but he either needs to lay off the hallucinogenics or maybe just get some fresh air:
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:22 pm
by incubus2432
Ritter basses are fantastic......they play and sound wonderful and I sort of like the exaggerated looks.
Re: This would be a great bass...
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:10 pm
by nattiep
Those basses are very unique. Not ugly, that one with the 13 bolts has that neat splash for the bottom horn. Not everything has to look vintage nowadays guys, get over it.