NikNik

18 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

18 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

One of his ebay auctions has a link to him playing.
 

I can't go there, but was it 'A night in Langley'?

13 hours ago, Woody1957 said:

I wouldn't like to lug that beastie around a stage for 2 hours.....

Mind you he has got some class...looks like he's playing through acoustic cabs.

The rig of choice, back then.

There's something Derek Smalls about Mick and this bass. Did Harry Shearer ever see this band?

Has he bought a router??

I know this is a bass forum and bass thread, but I've been tempted, in the past, to order a Firebird I, but I've never been confident in the comms I've had from the shops involved.

ALiExpress gear has been left wanting when it comes to actives. What's in this bass?

1 minute ago, AndyTravis said:

That was 2020 @NikNik they seem to do very short runs of finishes etc - their Instagram page is very cool.

 

https://www.instagram.com/rickenbackerofficial?igsh=MXhieW90eXV4YnI3cg==
 

And Ben Hall (Hall Jr) has his own profile…

 

https://www.instagram.com/itsbacknotbach?igsh=Z2M2cGtrcGtrMnpj

 

 

I don't do Insta or FB, so I miss these things., sadly. Still, nice to see them on here, and to witness Ben's willingness to reissue older models.

2 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

@NikNik

Niiice.

JH defiantly said RIC would never reissue the 4002, so if the 4005 is coming out, what chance the 4002?

1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

Possibly one for @TrevorR who put together this brilliant resource: http://walbasshistory.blogspot.com/?m=1

Excellent site! Thx for the link.

1 hour ago, Rich said:

No, it's all down to the wood. 

Tonewood, you mean??😆

1 hour ago, Bass Culture said:

 It undoubtedly makes a significant contribution, but seeing as passive Wal's reportedly also have the same characteristic 'core tone', I believe the pickups (and how they are wired?) make an equal or possibly even greater contribution.

Ah, right! Ok.

I thought the filter circuit was most of the Wal tone?

2 minutes ago, Fionn said:

Is that what I have? They’re the originals.

 

 

 

 

Nah, they're  SChallers. I'd still keep them.

Bridge.

I've tried the Hipshot; didn't like it. I have the Allparts on a Greco copy and it's never moved in years.

Scratchplate.

Try Rickysounds in UK.

Tuners.

I would not swap out the wavy Grovers, if that's what you have.

Dreadful amp. Blew one these up in a rehearsal studio

That's camera tape/white gaffer tape that's holding them together. And that P-bass control......is this something by He Who Shall Not Be Named?

Back in the mid Noughties, I brokered a sale of sale of a Mk1 Custom that belonged to a musician acquaintance to a guy in Amsterdam. The price? £2200. I took the bass to Amsterdam and the guy couldn't believe his luck in getting a pristine model, with original case. The musician couldn't believe getting £2k for it, given that he'd bought it for £500 back in the late '80s.

Bass

Pic attached for non-FBers.

Just seen the thread on TB.....

Have some fun guessing these. I only got two right; The Hofner and the Fender Musicmaster.

No cheating!

Blindfold test.

14 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

Better than a story I heard about Steve Jones doing something unspeakable to a sandwich Glen Matlock was about to eat.

The headcheese one?

On 28/01/2024 at 19:41, Cato said:

I think in many respects Newstead was the whipping boy of the band, the And Justice debacle aside I remember reading stories about how the other band members had 'hazed' him inwhat seems to have been a fairly brutal manner on his first tour with them.

 

Hetfield in particular seems to have deliberately prevented Newstead from having as much musical input as he wanted whilst also trying to block him from expressing  his creative side in another project. 

 

I think when he left the band almost imploded because, Hetfield who seems to have been a thoroughly unpleasant character for the first 20 years or so of Metallicas career  started directing his destructive and controlling behaviour at the remaining band members and they lacked Newsteads strength of character

 

 

I recall one about them squeezing a tube of Wasabi into a bowl and telling JN it was guacamole.

Just hearing this now. Sad loss.