Cosmo Valdemar

Sweetness - Yes

Alcohol - The Kinks

Shades Of Grey - Biohazard

Hangman Jury - Aerosmith

Raining Blood - Slayer

Lightning’s Hand - Kansas

Odorono - The Who

Good choice 👊

Bony Moronie - Larry Williams

Colony of Birchmen - Mastodon

Into The Void - Black Sabbath

It's Over - Badfinger

Smasher/Devourer - Fear Factory

Everything's Ruined - Faith No More

I had a white Epi Thunderbird for years, one of the really early ones with the dark fingerboard. No neck dive whatsoever, although loads of people told me I must have been wrong because as everyone knows, ALL Thunderbirds neck dive! I do regret selling it, but in the end that skinny nut was a bit too narrow. It's with a friend so it's in good hands. I do miss the sheer roar of that neck pickup though... nothing comes close.

Milk Train - Jefferson Airplane

Vegetables - Beach Boys

The Incest Song - Buffy Saint Marie

Black Country Rock - David Bowie

That is one luxury bass right there! My eye is irresistibly drawn to the far more humble Brooks on the left though... 😁

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Your manner may have been a trifle brusque but you were in the right. Sounds like the seller was a right villain. My favourite thing about this is finding out your wife calls you "Trav".

I've owned several Ricks and have often experimented with Rick-O-Sound. For me it's the only way to get "that" tone I grew up chasing - Hemispheres, Close To The Edge. You can certainly get close to it running mono, and there are a lot of pedals and devices available these days to get close to it - the Tech 21 Dug in particular. That said there is nothing quite like running a Rick in stereo at volume. You don't necessarily have to use a guitar amp either - in fact a lot of people on YouTube showing of Rick-O-Sound seem to miss the point somewhat, running the neck pickup through a bass amp and the bridge pickup through a small guitar amp, ramping up the distortion and getting a strange disconnected sound that doesn't sound good to my ears at all. In a way it's the deficiencies of the instrument that make Rick-O-Sound necessary - the top end and growl of the bridge pickup is unbeatable but it struggles in the low end* so running the neck pickup separately gives you the big lows back. I adore Rickenbackers but acknowledge they do have plenty of foibles you have to deal with 😄 The real RIC splitter boxes are ridiculously overpriced. If you're handy with wires and a soldering iron it wouldn't be hard to cobble together a splitter box but if not Raygun FX can knock one together for not a lot of money. Bottom line - if you're getting a Rick there's no reason at all not to give it a go! I'm surprised to see such strong negative reactions to the idea, that's something more common on Talkbass. * The current 4003 uses overwound pickups so they're a lot hotter and fatter but lose detail on top.

I'm sorry - the seller was in your house?!

Beyond Salvation - Deicide