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tvickey

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  1. This is certainly true on my Warwicks, but has not been my experience at all with this recent Rickenbacker 4003. When the nut breaks loose, the string tension tends to pull it away from the fretboard (you can see what I mean in the photo).
  2. Update: The CA glue that I used the second time around held... This time I did put some glue both on the nut bottom and on the side that faces the fretboard. Perhaps that was the key... I took the bass into the studio this morning with strings added, but not fully tensioned. We made sure to track guitar first today in order to give the glue as long as possible to cure. By the early afternoon it was time for bass and I tensioned the strings up... and I managed to record the bass tracks in the studio without any problem. Those were the last tracks for the album. Yay, all done!
  3. I have to confess that the A and D string gauge difference bit me the first time that I had the nut pop off. So, it is very likely my fault and I probably precipitated this following that mistake... However, I widened the grooves prior to gluing the nut back on that first time. The nut stayed on just fine, until the next time that I changed strings (same gauge). As I wrote, I've used CA glue again but this time putting it on the bottom as well as the fretboard-facing side of the nut. I put strings back on this morning, but have not fully tensioned them into tune... I'm trying to buy as many hours of cure time as possible before hitting the studio this morning. Fingers crossed that the stays in place! The entire point of going back into the studio this morning was to re-record bass on a few tracks specifically for the Ric sound... the studio time was booked months ago. Argh! My GAS is saying, "You know what this means? We have to buy another Ric... you know, to have on-hand as a back up." 🤣
  4. I'd pay myself just for the opportunity to play with some of the headliners at the shows that we've got lined up this year... but don't tell the promoter that!
  5. Okay, I have a complaint about the 2023 4003 Rickenbackers (and maybe earlier versions too): The nut keeps popping off! This happens basically every time that I change the strings. Is this a known issue? Has anyone else encountered this? The first time it popped off, I noticed some glue residue on the SIDE of the nut that faces the fretboard, in addition to the bottom of the nut that face the neck. However, when I re-glued it I only used a small amount of CA glue on the BOTTOM of the nut. That seemed to work well, or so I thought. The next time I went to change the strings the nut popped off again! I've glued many a nut on my Warwicks (e.g., replacing plastic tedur with brass) and as far as I can recall I only had one pop off. This evening I glued the nut back on the Ric but now with CA glue on both the BOTTOM and the SIDE. Hopefully that does it... I also used slightly larger dabs of CA. I'm supposed to hit the studio tomorrow with the bass(!). Argh!
  6. Yeah, my son plays guitar (but not with us). He's nearly 16 years old and is looking to form his first band... all he needs now is the ever-elusive drummer.
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  8. My band 'Shreds.' played at The Outpost in Liverpool last night. This was our first time playing in Liverpool, and we were headlining a show that had three other bands on the bill. The fam came along with me to watch the show, and my son is always happy to help sell merch (he sold 4 t-shirts!). We arrived well in advance and were greeted with an incredibly competent and friendly sound guy who said he's been working there for 14 years. We normally play LOUD, but this was a small room and he asked both the guitarist and I to trust him and turn our amps down a bit, so we did. We had a setlist of 20 songs, three of which were new. During the soundcheck we managed to 'rehearse' each of the new songs. Things sounded just fine to me during the soundcheck. I think that about 40 people showed up and when it was our turn to play, I soon realized that I could not hear myself very well on stage. I backed up against the bass cabinet, which helped somewhat, however it wasn't quite loud enough for me. I usually have problems hearing our guitarist on stage, but now both guitar and vox seemed super loud through the monitors. I probably should have commented to the sound guy, but I was afraid of losing the guitar feed in my monitor so I just carried on. The show started 30 minutes late, there were some technical issues with vox during one of the other bands' set, and the bands before us seemed to burn a lot of time by talking to the crowd. Once we got up on stage, we were told that we'd have to cut our set short. So, the three songs that I worked so hard to perfect on bass this past week were tossed out! Oh well, at least I learned them in preparation for the next show! They did sound really good during the soundcheck, which was attended by the fam and a couple of the other bands.
  9. Tonight!!! My band Shreds. hit Liverpool for the first time. If you're around and don't have much else to do, please come check us out!
  10. My band Shreds. is opening up for the SUBHUMANS at The Drill in Lincoln, UK on Friday April 26th! The venue has an occupancy of 550... this will be the largest venue that we've played to-date. I hope that a lot of Basschatters come to our show... please help pack the place! 😎 Tickets are available here: https://www.lincolndrill.co.uk/whats-on/subhumans-shreds/
  11. Yes, they exist... I have this exact bass and purchased it new from GuitarGuitar. However, I don't believe they are in stock in the UK anymore. The 2023 Rics are superb! Single truss rod, outstanding bridge, powerful pickups, Schaller strap buttons, low action, thin neck...
  12. Holly was running the sound. A young person, and they did a really great job!
  13. My band 'Shreds.' played our first headliner show last night! We were at Cafe Indie in Scunthorpe. It was our first time playing Scunthorpe, and Cafe Indie was a really great venue. Nice large stage decked out with a lot of new gear and lighting. Apparently there were about 200 people that showed up! The person running sound did an excellent job, and was even super helpful about letting us put our recording rig in-line with their setup (we have 16 transformer-isolated XLR splitters, preamps, laptop and usually record our live sets). We arrived early and set everything up well in advance of the show start time. The other bands were keen to be recorded live, so I hit 'record' for each of those first three sets. When we got up on stage to play last, I tuned my bass and then focused on silently warming up during the precious few moments that I had. Our drummer looked over and indicated "let's go" and off we went. Unfortunately I forgot to hit 'record' for our set! Ha! Oh well... next time I'll be more careful!
  14. Tonight! Come see my band 'Shreds.' play in an 800 year old pub in Nottingham! We hit 'Ye Olde Salutation Inn'... show starts at 7pm!
  15. My band 'Shreds.' played ALOFT at 'The Haworth' in Hull last night... this was part of the Hull Punk Festival that is taking place this weekend. The venue room and stage were quite nice, but the drums were situated up on risers to the far left. We were informed ahead of time that amps and cabs would be supplied as part of the backline. I didn't know exactly what gear this would be, so I brought my usual Mesa Strategy 888 and ultimately plugged that into the Mark Bass 4x10" cab on stage (sounded good to me!). Our guitarist usually uses a JCM800, but decided to go with the backline amp which was a combo and seemed to have a single 12" speaker (if even that?). The cabs were mic-ed up and fed back to us as part of the monitor mix. However, the 'monitors' there were smaller than my home stereo speakers... and with the small on-stage guitar amp that was part of the backline I really could not hear guitar at all. While playing we asked the sound guy to turn up guitar in the monitors... he seemed to acknowledge this, but the volume never went up. I had to watch our guitarist and rely on some visual cues. When we finished, our guitarist muttered to me, "Well, it's definitely not a Marshall". We seemed to play well despite the impairment, and even sold two t-shirts and gained a number of additional followers on Facebook. All in all, it was a fun show.
  16. My band 'Shreds.' has our first show of 2024 is in Hull, UK on Saturday January 20th. Get your tickets in advance here: https://www.seetickets.com/tour/hull-punk-festival Act fast, because I heard that there are only 30 tickets still available for purchase online!
  17. The bass looks brand new, so that's great! Good deal!
  18. I'm curious about your comment Ian, what makes you say this? I'm especially interested in your opinion because you have so many other Rics!
  19. Just curious which shop you picked this up from? There seemed to be a few of these walnut Rics that hit the UK last year... and then they quickly seemed to vanish / get sold!
  20. I would sign up, but I'm afraid that this could adversely affect my GAS.
  21. I agree that the 2023 Rics are amazing... Rickenbacker made some excellent improvements and I'm really enjoying my 4003.
  22. My band has a group Facebook messenger chat, and one day out of the blue our drummer just sent a message "Sorry, I can't be in the band anymore." My first reply was, "Are you okay mate?" My second thought was about the gig that we were due to play in two days time. My third thought was oh #&%$ we'll never find a drummer as good a fit as him. He then sent a follow up message, writing "I'm now playing with these guys." and included a some other band's pr photo with a guy who looks exactly like him in the shot. My fourth thought was WTF?!? Why would he leave us out of the blue for some other band? I even announced to my wife that our drummer has decided to leave! Turns out our drummer played an evil joke on the rest of us. That group photo just had some doppelganger stranger who happens to look JUST like him in that band image. Long beard, piercings, etc. Thankfully he's still with us... but I remain shaken and paranoid. I am really happy with all of my current bandmates, and I do appreciate that we might all be incredibly privileged / lucky. But, I guess it could happen, one day, with any of us... someone could just decide to move on (or up!).
  23. On Saturday, December 16th, my band 'Shreds.' head to Bolton to play our 14th and final show of 2023!
  24. It was our 13th gig as a band, so we knew that something just had to go wrong! We played the Akēdo Gaming Bar in Lincoln last night (it's our second time there this year), which is a great little venue but with one of the smallest stages that I've ever seen. The guitarist and I live relatively close, so we loaded up one car with gear and started out relatively early to give ourselves plenty of setup time (lots of snow, ice and fog on the road!). Just as soon as we set off there is a text message from our vocalist: He's just been in an accident. Fortunately our singer is physically okay, but his car is not. Guitarist and I quickly divert to head north one additional hour and pick up the vocalist. We arrive at the venue about 30 minutes before we're due to start playing; the organizer is relaxed and doesn't mind a late start. Phew. We played really well last night, maybe the best yet. As I've mentioned on Basschat a few times, we always record our sets live. This significantly added to the stress of a late arrival (with mic setup, etc.), but it all worked out in the end. There was a small boy, maybe 6 years old or so, in the audience (with some pretty serious hearing protection, of course). He really seemed to enjoy the show, dancing around as we played our set. He and his mom are friends with our drummer and came up to the stage area afterwards. We gave the boy a few souvenirs (setlist, drumstick, plectrum). Our singer crowd-surfed at the very end of our set, and fortunately survived. No one broke any bones, this time!
  25. Hi Mark, I still have quite a few matched quad sets available. HotRox does have these Electroharmonix KT-88s back in stock again, but their price is £300. My asking price is still £250.
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