RhysP
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Oooh, I like that!
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They won't be in any danger as neither of them are english... 😈
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I found that with the Rotosound flats too. I couldn't even stay in the room with them, the tension was unbearable.
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Really?
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It would have shown an astonishing degree of foresight if they had been. 😂
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Here's the photo of the Geddy Lee potato. 🙂 Apologies for the terrible quality, it was taken over 40 years ago on a crappy little camera.
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I've got a photo of it somewhere. I found a potato that I thought looked just like Geddy Lee, so I put one of my mum's wigs on it, used some Marigold gloves as hands & took a picture of it "playing" my Ric. 😂
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I tried so hard to like it. I couldn't believe it when I got it, I just used to gaze at it lovingly for hours. I borrowed the money from my sister to buy it & paid her back out of my Saturday job wages. It cost me £206.00 & my Hondo which I P/X'd against it. 🙂
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Only a really crappy secondhand thing called a "Raver", which had a shorter scale than most guitars, and a Hondo II SD Curlee. I did actually like the neck on that first Rick, I just found it very uncomfortable to play. I couldn't get on with the overall layout either.
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My mid 70s 4001 was my first "proper" bass, I bought it used when I was still in school.
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It was all original, so the bass must have been older than I thought. I was never that knowledgable on all the Ric variants. I really wanted to like the Ricks I've owned & played, but everything about them was wrong for me. It was like wearing the wrong size shoes on the wrong feet. I still think they look lovely though.
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I got rid of the Wal shortly afterwards too. Never seen what all the fuss is about them either.
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I had a Sterling Ray Sub 4 for a while last year & it was a bloody good bass - lovely neck, sounded great & build/finish quality was excellent too. I actually thought it was far better than the US Stingray 5 I had a few years ago.
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Wide Open Space - Mansun
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I'd be content with being the next small thing.
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I've been an OMD fan for a long time & I've never noticed that before!
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Out of the Ricks I owned my early 70s checkerboard/horseshoe/toaster one was the worst. An absolute dog of a bass. Swapped it for a Wal.
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I actually preferred his earlier inventing the seed drill period to the later stuff.
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Nice.
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Also, what you imagine might be your dream bass may turn out to be anything but once you've had one. A Rickenbacker 4001 was my dream bass when I started playing. When I actually got one I couldn't have been more disappointed.
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Alice Cooper was originally the band's name, not the singer's.
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I was in a band called "Frank's Parents" for a while.
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Yeah, I'd never join a band that was called Nigel.
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Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin
