RhysP

Burman amps, both guitar and bass, are absolutely superb!

It's made from compressed weasels & there's a live frog under the scratchplate.
Apart from that it's a stock 4001s.

[quote name='clauster' post='576456' date='Aug 21 2009, 10:38 AM']So in short - Gene Simmons, Paul Gardiner and Peter Hook inspired me to get a bass, but it was Jon Fielder who got me to actually play it - I owe that man a huge thank you.[/quote]
Paul Gardiner was a HUGE influence on me.

The reason I started playing bass was that I couldn't afford a MiniMoog.

Me want an orange one.

[quote name='dazco' post='576999' date='Aug 21 2009, 06:51 PM']What is the difference between this and a normal Rik.[/quote]
It's modelled on Chris Squires unique old 4001s. It's incredibly sought after & highly collectable, and they tend to change hands for daft money.

That's really nice.

I would think a more correct name for a piccolo bass would be "long scale tenor guitar".

(But then it becomes a guitar, not a bass, so people stop thinking what you play on it is really clever & awesome).

[quote name='BB3000S' post='577052' date='Aug 21 2009, 07:47 PM']He had a really short Fender period didn't he?[/quote]
No, they were normal 34" scale......

Your link doesn't work.

[quote name='silddx' post='576436' date='Aug 21 2009, 10:23 AM']I think theory is much more important than reading for me.[/quote]
Same here.
I've actually started learning to read (again) and getting stuck into some theory & I'm enjoying it, though I'm not able to give it the time I'd like to at the moment. The series of lessons that rslaing posted a while back really inspired me to give it another bash.

This is going to be too painful......

Gary Willis' "Ultimate ear training for bass & guitar" is the book you want to get.

Avoid them. You'll save yourself loads of money & countless hours of misery......

Flangers are nice though.

Why revalve it & then sell it that cheap?

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='573060' date='Aug 18 2009, 03:40 PM']Is the Chris Squire model actually smaller or is it an illusion cos it has no binding?
BB[/quote]
If it was modelled on Squires bass as accurately as it was meant to have been it will indeed be smaller.
Chris has mentioned several times in interviews how he went through a period of having his Rickenbacker regularly refinished in different things (Foil, floral wallpaper etc. - this WAS the 60's!) so it was stripped and sanded quite a few times before he finally settled on the cream colour it's been for ages.

He attributes the instruments unique toppy sound to the smaller mass of the body, and having owned several Ricks & not even gotten close to that sound I'd tend to agree with him.

If I had one of those Chris Squire Ricks I'd definately hang on to it - they'll only appreciate in value. They already change hands for silly money.
Wish I had one......

That's a bloody beautiful guitar - great repair job too.

[quote name='JanSpeeltBas' post='572586' date='Aug 18 2009, 08:03 AM']This body shape leads to another key-“ metalist” I didn’t mention before: John Veleno – he made aluminum guitars in the ‘70s and actually one bass too.[/quote]
He made more than one bass - Kasim Sultan from Todd Rundgrens Utopia had an Ankh shaped Veleno bass.

With regard to the Staccato bass - I played one when they first came out at the London music trade fair (when it was trade only before they let the great unwashed spoil it.). Pat & Chris had a small stand in a room that was chock full of fantastic basses.

They had serious problems with the basses; because magnesium is such a soft metal the bridge & string retainers on the headstock began to rip out of the body under string tension over time.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='572054' date='Aug 17 2009, 08:45 PM']Personally I'd never send ANY hard case through any postal system unless it was protected in some way, usually in a cardboard box of some sort.[/quote]
Some couriers probably wouldn't take anything that wasn't boxed up. If they did I'm pretty certain you'd be screwed if you needed to make an insurance claim.

[quote name='wombatboter' post='571386' date='Aug 17 2009, 09:55 AM']Not really a nice gesture towards people like us Belgians who are trying hard to write in English though it's still a hard language.. (and we can do it in French and in German too...)
Hi, Claude... you don't happen to be a guitarplayer ? I know Peter DeWint (sound engineer for Glenn Hughes etc..) and he let me play a notorious Vigier once..he said something about this bass having a Deep Purple history..
Write it in French if it's too complicated, they won't understand it here though...[/quote]

To be fair I don't think anybody posted any of the comments in this thread to insult the OPs use of the English language; if you read his post there's absolutely nothing wrong with the English in it. I've seen infinitely worse posted by "natives"
What started the jokes was simply the fact that the OP left the "R" off "Glover" - any one of us could have easily made the same mistake & the comments would have been the same.

I apologise to the OP if he's been offended in any way, it certainly was not my intention to cause offence & I doubt if it was the intention of any of the other posters too.

Zon Legacy Elite Fretless. La Bella Slappers 45 65 85 110

3rd fret: 1mm
12th fret: 2mm
17th fret: 2.3mm

Low.

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='572139' date='Aug 17 2009, 09:22 PM']Re losing picks. Remember when you were a kid and your auntie used to knit you woolly mittens with a big bit of wool sewn to each glove and then you fed it through your sleeves? Well, you know where I`m going with this...Save you a bloomin fortune.

Think I`ll get onto the patent office right noo.

Jez[/quote]
I don't think you'll find much of a market for knitted woollen plectra.

[quote name='dub_junkie' post='572014' date='Aug 17 2009, 08:09 PM']...the Blizzard Pearl finish is also the dogs danglies.[/quote]
+1
With all the great comments about build quality and that awesome Blizzard Pearl finish I'm actually considering buying a Precision, which is something I thought I'd never do.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='58515' date='Sep 11 2007, 12:06 AM']Here's Mondays choice from [url="http://www.atlansia.jp/"]Atlansia[/url].

Designed by N. Hayashi, better known to all those late 70s Aria Pro II fans as H. Noble we have a Galaxy and a Stealth

[/quote]

Atlansia used to make a one string bass called the Solitaire.
Great thread! I've only just seen it, late to the party again........

I've known a few people that have ordered personalised plectrums from various places & the plectrums they've received have always been really cheap, sh*tty quality ones.

Reverb stores (used to be Sound Control) are currently selling their 09 jazz basses for about £825.00.