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Sun Arise - Rolf Harris

Kas is a superb Musician. As well as being an excellent bassist he's also a really good guitarist, keyboard player, singer & songwriter. He's been mainly associated with Todd Rundgren since the mid 70s when he joined Utopia (which is how he ended up playing on "Bat Out of Hell"). He still plays in Todd's touring band. He's also played with Joan Jett & Hall & Oates among many others.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar

The tape measure thumb rest spoils it.

Exactly this. It's easy for people to beach & moan when they're not the ones that have to deal with the consequences, even if that is only having to interact with unpleasant emails. If I was one of the owners/administrators of Basschat, I would think the prospect of Rickenbacker finally deciding to make an example of a site ignoring their threats as a warning to others would be enough to justify the ban staying in place.

Oooh, I like that!

They won't be in any danger as neither of them are english... 😈

I found that with the Rotosound flats too. I couldn't even stay in the room with them, the tension was unbearable.

Really?

It would have shown an astonishing degree of foresight if they had been. 😂

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.

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. 😂

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. 🙂

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.

My mid 70s 4001 was my first "proper" bass, I bought it used when I was still in school.

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.

I got rid of the Wal shortly afterwards too. Never seen what all the fuss is about them either.

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.

Wide Open Space - Mansun

I'd be content with being the next small thing.

I've been an OMD fan for a long time & I've never noticed that before!

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.

I actually preferred his earlier inventing the seed drill period to the later stuff.

Nice.