highwayone Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Anyone heard of these? There's one in my local gash converters and I've never heard of them. It's a fretless, headless bass with a rectangular body not dissimilar to a cricket bat!! Wondered if it was worth a punt or terrible cheap crap! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 I had one for a while - slightly more shaped body than a Steinberger, strange sculpted pickups. I think they are quite collectable, and great fun for playing around the house but sadly the amplified tone was pathetic. Despite this shortcoming, Dave Pegg played one with Fairport Convention for a time so he must have liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 It does ring vague bells - think I saw a review once in BGM ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highwayone Posted April 20, 2013 Author Share Posted April 20, 2013 It was 80 quid bit wasn't sure if it was a bargain or a duff deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 riverside or riverhead.... or another river something - one of them are reasonably high quality japanese 80's things - the other 2 either don't exist or are rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Don't get these confused with Riverhead instruments. The Riverhead Unicorn is a high quality Japanese-made headless bass that owes more than a bit in styling to the Burns Flyte. IIRC the Riverside headless bass is some nasty PoS that was being flogged off cheap on eBay a while back. There is also a completely different [url=http://www.riversideguitars.net]Riverside Guitars[/url] based in Bath making what look like very nice vintage guitar copies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1366492590' post='2053273'] Don't get these confused with Riverhead instruments. The Riverhead Unicorn is a high quality Japanese-made headless bass that owes more than a bit in styling to the Burns Flyte. IIRC the Riverside headless bass is some nasty PoS that was being flogged off cheap on eBay a while back. There is also a completely different [url="http://www.riversideguitars.net"]Riverside Guitars[/url] based in Bath making what look like very nice vintage guitar copies. [/quote] It seems I was thinking of a Riverhead bass then, it did look like a slimmer Burns Flyte. It was still terrible though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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