KevB

Was Bruce OK? A mate saw them a couple of years back and he said one of the roadies had to put the bass on Bruce and wondered if he'd had some sort of injury or illness, apparently played OK once it was in place though.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='279805' date='Sep 8 2008, 04:35 PM']Who plays the pedalboard? i'd fall on my a..e if i tried. [/quote]

I used to play it now and again in the band I was in at the time, added a bit of keyboardy touches here and there. Can be tiring if you use it frequently as you end up standing on one leg a lot! Might blow the dust off them and give them a whirl in my next venture once I'm settled into the line-up. If you think that looks scary try doing a search on Youtube for the [b]Footar[/b]!

I really enjoyed learning Suffragette City with the hope my band at the time would put it in the set - they never did though

Much abused 79ray I picked up, got cleaned up as best I could. Nordstrand PU and J East pre installed, now sports black knobs. Plays OK, fitted with flats at the moment for a thuddier sound.

For those youngsters who don't remember it's first appearance years ago you can marvel at the sheer lunacy of our favourite German junk hoarder all over again....surely one of the ugliest POS to grace the bay. Makes Warwicks look desirable
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I picked one up off eBay for about £100 and it wasn't in as good nick as the one you are looking at. It plays OK though, I was just curious to try a short scale bass, all the epi ones seemed to be going for slightly high prices. This is what I got:

As ever Jon (Bassassin) was a fountain of common sense and useful info.

I bought a few packs of S/H ric strings on eBay a longtime ago (all used now) and none had silver or grey wraps. The roundwounds were black wraps and the groundwounds (a sort of semi-flat) were a faded red. I doubt yours were original ric strings, which is probably no bad thing as they can be rather expensive. Only thing to really watch with rics is if the nut at the A slot hasn't been refiled then you will probably find the A string on most sets to be too wide as the original ric specs are a slightly odd gauge. Last time I restrung mine I ended up with some extra light gauge so the A string was at least correct, can't recall the manufacturer, possibly Daddario?

From a couple of years back, I stopped hauling the 4X10 around and usually use a SWR 2X10 in its place now.

You are being a c*nt but you play punk, what do you expect? Seriously though, they are a good honest hard workin classic blues rock band and really need to be seen live for best effect. Hell of a singer. Check out Back Door Slam as well.

Has anyone any experience with this:
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I know they may be quite new so possibly not many in UK yet. Looks intriguing. I've dabbled with Roland PK5 pedals and these seem potentially more bass/guitar player friendly as it is laid out like a fretboard, not a keyboard. Might take a bit of mastering but for you guys in bands with only guitars as instruments it might be worth a look at to expand your horizons.

There was a poll a while back either here or the old site, over 30% of the contributers were left handed playing right handed instruments, including me. Makes perfect sense to me, playing basslines isn't like holding down chords for long periods, good dexterity in the fretting hand is probably more important than the plucking/strumming hand. It might put people at a disadvantage with more complex slapping techniques but for most general playing I'd want all the fretting done with my 'best' hand.

Just been invited to act as a dep for someone in a local covers band so had about 15 songs to learn in a week so they could rehearse without their regular bass player. I think they were surprised I'd learned as much as I did in the time which counted in my favour but it was mostly straightforward stuff even for my level. Don't know how many gigs I'll get to do with them yet. Probably the most fun out of the lot was Action, the old Sweet / Def Leppard tune.

This reminds me that one of my first ever eBay transactions was a several hundred quid Ric from someoone I didn't know from Adam. As it turned out he was totally kosher and back then there were fewer scams around but it does make me sweat a bit to think how I would have handled it if the auction had gone pear shaped.

Not sure about wood, probably ply. It seems extremely light (about half the weight of my Jap P copy which i think is ply)but then it's a fairly small body. God knows what happened with the bridge. I'm wondering if that brass strip screwed onto it started life as a nut blank. There's no way the strings would sit above the PU's without something there. Might look around for some sort of alternative bridge but to be honest it's not worth spendng a lot of time or money on. Might have a shimming session if I get bored over the Xmas hols.

A bit late in the day from when it appeared earlier in the thread but here's that Columbus SG copy I picked up. My camera went down so I've just bought a new one and this is really a quick test snap to see if that was working more than actually photo'ing the bass! I was worried it was a dubious purple colour from the eBay photo but in reality it's that grubby brown that seems to suit Gibsons. Action isn't great but it's playable, reasonable intonation considering. About 20 years worth of other peoples skin residue all over the frets but came up OK with a good scrub and a dose of lemon oil. Never going to be porn but for a foray into short scale it'll do. Electrics surprisingly crackle/earth hum-free, both PU's actually working!

I'd like a P type....no, make that a jazz. Hang on, I've always liked Musicman....Oh, what th hell, just bung 'em all on
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As said before this guy has had some of this stuff on Bay for years, some of it even predates the previous bassworld forum! My personal 'favourite' was a particularly hideous greeny blue coloured twin neck. If I do a search he might still have it now, can't imagine anone actually buying it.
Just occasionally (very occasionally) he seems to have something genuinely interesting and I've wondered about offering him a sensible price as opposed to what it's advertised at but you get the impression with most of it he'd actually rather keep it. He'd be better off just putting it all on a site of his own rather than using up eBay's bandwidth. Might get more pics of each piece of junk that way.

Go back to the original Zutons version, far far better than the Winehouse abomination and probably easier to work out.

With some guidance from Jon (Bassassin) I've just picked up my first piece of JapCrap in over 20 years, recent ebay entry;

It hasn't arrived yet, if it ever does I'll try to get some better pics.

Just another 'well done' from a fellow Ric owner (maybe there are more of us on here than we think?). Shame the guy had to sell it for so little in desperation but it was his decision and your lucky day. I don't play mine as much as it deserves but when i take it to jam sessions it usually gets played by about 4 other people drooling over it, and it's only a bog standard 4003. They just have a certain presence about 'em...

I used to be able to play most of it, it was always the bit where the bass is doing the run very tight with the drums just before the main riff that I found a struggle. When I saw a proper transcription I realised why - a *lot* of notes in a short space of time, very easy to slurr them together. On the subject of Rush, has anyone seen the tribute band Bravado? I'm considering seeing them tonight in Sutton-in-Ashfield, wondered what anyone thought, the clips on their web site are poorly recorded so hard to tell...

With those lipstick pickups I'm guessing it's not first choice for aggressive slapping!

Well I haven't played a note in weeks and I've just been coerced into doing a set at a works internal activity day with the in house band I started off with. Our original female vocalist has since moved on so I'll probably have to carry all the singing for the whole set as the rest are even worse at it than me. I'm persuading them to keep it short, maybe just half an hour over their lunch break. Most of the old set will be out of the window as I won't be able to sing it!

After hearing Macca do 'drive my car' at that Liverpool gig on TV a while back I decided to learn that, no real reason. I realised he does a similar thing with that line as he does for back in the USSR

Also think of the resale value - spend £500 on the Tokai and what would it be worth if you didn't like it and passed it on compared with, say, what you'd get back from resale of a real ric you had got on eBay for £700.