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TV sighting
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:38 pm
by bassduke49
Don't know if this "beer" is marketed where you are, but there's a recent TV ad for Redd's Strawberry Ale that's staged in a club. The cute gal asks the drummer (heyyyyy, wait just a minute here . . .) what he's drinking. Suddenly there's this avalanche of strawberries as he replies "Redd's Strawberry Ale." Anyway, the gal bass player is taking off her bass for the break, and it appears to be a 4001V63. All that you can see clearly is the neck, and it is has dot position markers and dark head wings. Figuring the commercial was made before the reintroduction of the 4003S, it must be a V63 (no reverse headstock, so it ain't a C64). Of course the Rickenbacker lettering is covered with white tape.
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:33 pm
by jps
Where is the neck pickup positioned?
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:52 pm
by bassduke49
Can't see it in the commercial. It's behind people in foreground. Here it is:
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Kzu/redds-straw ... le-drummer
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:14 am
by T28
That's my son Justin who is playing the role of the drummer.
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:15 am
by bassduke49
T28 wrote:That's my son Justin who is playing the role of the drummer.
Really? Cool! It would have been even cooler had he been the bass player getting the offer, but I guess a fusillade of rubber strawberries bounce better off symbols!
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:17 pm
by T28
bassduke49 wrote:T28 wrote:That's my son Justin who is playing the role of the drummer.
Really? Cool! It would have been even cooler had he been the bass player getting the offer, but I guess a fusillade of rubber strawberries bounce better off symbols!
Grew up in a house with music 24/7 and he doesn't play a damn thing.
He decided to pick another profession that doesn't pay **** unless you hit the big time..... acting.
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:30 pm
by jdogric12
Symbols???????????????????
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 5:11 pm
by jps
bassduke49 wrote:...rubber strawberries bounce better off symbols!
Really! Maybe they were trying to say something profound, there?
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 5:46 pm
by bassduke49
Har har, you cawt me. Lyk i kannt spl r sumpin.
But who knows; maybe they don't bounce off cymbals well at all!
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:41 pm
by jps
Yeah, they might just like, slide down them and fall to the floor. Strawberry jam, anyone?
Re: TV sighting
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:58 pm
by squirebass
I'd say the strawberries were deeply cymbalic...