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Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:36 am
by coldbrightsunlight
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:ric40011972silversparkle.JPG
Ewwww.
I really want a white one but I think other finishes look stupid except for natural, have they really discontinued white? That's insane.
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:59 pm
by Mudfuzz
monkeydancer wrote:Bassus Sanguinis wrote:ric40011972silversparkle.JPG
Ewwww.
I really want a white one but I think other finishes look stupid except for natural, have they really discontinued white? That's insane.
If more people bought, ordered them in white then... Personally I'm not a fan of them in white, or burst, inless it's blueburst which transcends all.
They stopped doing them with black adornments in the early 90's.
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:08 pm
by Jero
Dig it, from that first pic. I'm a sucker for sparkle tops though. I have to agree the blue 4001s, and natural are muh favs
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:17 pm
by Mudfuzz
Also since it was brought up...
I have never liked their 8 string headstocks
I just can't see why they couldn't have done it like the guitars
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:52 pm
by Bassus Sanguinis
I actually like how they kept the original headstock, since it's got - unlike the guitar headstock (perhaps my least favorite of ALL guitar headstocks) - an interesting shape. And all tuners visible, showing immediately it's not just a regular bass.
...funny, isn't it, how people have so different tastes when it comes to Rickenbacker basses, even if everybody seems to like them.
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:02 pm
by Mudfuzz
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:...funny, isn't it, how people have so different tastes when it comes to Rickenbacker basses, even if everybody seems to like them.
Very.
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:I actually like how they kept the original headstock, since it's got - unlike the guitar headstock (perhaps my least favorite of ALL guitar headstocks) - an interesting shape. And all tuners visible, showing immediately it's not just a regular bass.
Actually I'm not talking about the shape but the sideways tuners, that could be done to a normal ric bass head shape. Normally I like 8 string heads that are big but for some reason it looks funny on a ric to me
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:19 pm
by Bassus Sanguinis
Mudfuzz wrote:Bassus Sanguinis wrote:...funny, isn't it, how people have so different tastes when it comes to Rickenbacker basses, even if everybody seems to like them.
Very.
Bassus Sanguinis wrote:I actually like how they kept the original headstock, since it's got - unlike the guitar headstock (perhaps my least favorite of ALL guitar headstocks) - an interesting shape. And all tuners visible, showing immediately it's not just a regular bass.
Actually I'm not talking about the shape but the sideways tuners, that could be done to a normal ric bass head shape. Normally I like 8 string heads that are big but for some reason it looks funny on a ric to me
OH, RIGHT, that. Yes, I agree - the trademark headstock seems funny when it's bent out of familiar iconic shape, as if the instrument got a long face for somebody sticking the extra tuners in its head.
When it comes to Ric colors: my bass player collegue of my new band has this 70's Porche red 4001 with black parts. It's has nothing to do with being classy, it's straight Porn and Rock 'n roll.
Another band mate got this awesome looking 70's white 4001, which was turning into greenish-yellowish because of aging and the finish was having darker stains and crackles in the back... it was a really neat looking instrument, for a white instrument.
Yet another bandmate has this pretty basic cherry burst. But the maple showing through looks like flame maple
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:40 pm
by Officer Bukowski
My favorite color (for the 4003 at least) was the tourquoise color.
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:26 pm
by Bassus Sanguinis
Officer Bukowski wrote:My favorite color (for the 4003 at least) was the tourquoise color.
THAT'S...
well, it can look good, though I tend to skip anything in turquoise myself. But I can easily imagine it could be actually pretty nice as a burst. Perhaps.
One thing about the other-than-black finishes is that they speak up the instrument shape on stage. A friends has a genuine Black Star Rickenbacker bass, black parts on black body and some such extras that just almost loses the Rickenbacker aesthetics because of this. Of course it's fucking awesome! It's über cool concept in a Gothic and/or Spinal Tap way, having reversed the stock parts color scheme for more dark looks
but that body shape jsut doesn't show so good, anymore. The opposite color pickguard actually enhances the bodyshape, just as much as the binding does.
It COULD be somemother color, too, like tortoise, I think. Or aluminum.
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:43 pm
by Mudfuzz
Re: check this Rickenbacker 4001 bass
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:50 pm
by Bassus Sanguinis
