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Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:37 am
by Headshots
I'm new to the RickResource and posted on the Vintage Forum. It was recommended that I post on the Bass Forum; of course! Here's the post:
Hi, I am new to this forum. I usually camp out over at the Beatgear Cavern. I am the original owner of a 1976 3000 bass that was given to me in 1978 when my ex husband and I got a tour of the Rickenbacker Factory. Rick was a sponsor of the 1977 Broadway show musical, Beatlemania, supplying the guitars. Last year, at a gathering in the Seattle area, I got to meet the two luthiers (Dale Fortune & Mark Arnquist) whose very hands built my bass. That was very exciting to meet the makers of my "Little Ricky."
Toni
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:51 am
by johnallg
Welcome Toni! Wow, what a story. Makes it an even more special instrument. Hope you hang out here with the rest of us low enders.
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:05 am
by paul_yan
Welcome to the family, Toni! Fascinating story of yours.
There's a 3000 belonging to a forumite in the RRF Register:
http://www.rickresource.com/register/vi ... lebrity%3D
Here's a list of all the 3000 basses (most of them "CI, i.e. collected items that don't belong to any forumites) in the register:
http://www.rickresource.com/register/in ... celebrity=
And don't forget to register yours!
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:36 am
by cjj
Welcome to the forum Toni! Cool story too. We'd all love to see some pictures of your bass!
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:40 am
by ram
Welcome to the Forum Toni. Great tale!
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:06 am
by rickenbrother
Welcome to the Forum Toni!
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:27 pm
by jps
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:57 am
by berth
Welcome Toni. And I have a 3000 too.
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 4:17 pm
by daveman
Welcome! Here's my 3000 with his big brother.
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:36 pm
by Fretjob
daveman wrote:Welcome! Here's my 3000 with his big brother.
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Very NIce
Do they sound the same? I'd read the long scale one had a heavy neck. How does it feel compared to the shortscale?
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:35 am
by partime
Hi Toni, welcome to the forum, a great place for information, stories, ect. I have a 75 and 76 3000. Love em both, play them everyday. I play short scale basses and these instuments rate very high and have alot of character. Very distinctive, easy to play, even though its been explained, I cannot understand why Rick discontinued them. I do like roundwound strings as they have better sustain. I reside in the PNW too.
Hold onto it.
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:48 pm
by aceonbass
I put this instrument together from the wreckage of two basket case 3000's and a 3001 neck a couple years ago.
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 2:13 pm
by DavyR
FYI, there's a 3000 RIC bass on Craigslist. Search PITTSBURGH for: MINT RICKENBACKER 3001 - $1500 (Bever County)
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:41 pm
by mattyplop
Hey Toni, Welcome! im fairly new here myself... Heres my two babies, a '76 3000, and a '78 3001! Does anyone know the colour of my 3001??
Re: Shortscale Rick 3000 owner, any others here?
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:46 pm
by bassduke49
Mark, your 3001 is Walnut, the overall application rather than the more common burst style. Pretty!
Welcome, once again! 
Very nice bass, actually. 