Music videos that feature Rics

[Jeff Scott]

Bump for musical greatness!



Stanley Clark rocking a 4001, back when Return to Forever still had Bill Connors on guitar.A surprisingly heavy hard-rock tune from The Sweet.

That's a 4000 model.

[Alanko]

Good shout, Jeff! Funny thing is that a lot of Stanley's tone is in there, but it just doesn't seem to bite like the Alembics do.

[ilan]

FWIW I think he sounds way better here than with his Alembics.

[Alanko]

I wish he was higher in the mix, but it isn't a bad tone by any means. I gather that Rick Turner basically doorstepped Stanley after a gig and said 'great playing, bad tone' or words to that effect. I'm not the biggest fan of Stanley's tone, especially when he first got the Alembic basses. Way too twangy for my tastes, and it seems like he was fretting out a bit at faster speeds with a tell-tale 'quack' to the notes. I saw a rig rundown a few years back where he was using small tube guitar amps for the high end. To me that is what I'm not so fond of, as I don't think his tone mates together very well. There is rumbling low end and an blizzard of crunchy top end, and nothing much joining these two halves. There is recent footage of RTF playing Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy if you want to directly compare their sound then and now.

[Jeff Scott]

...I gather that Rick Turner basically doorstepped Stanley after a gig and said 'great playing, bad tone' or words to that effect. I'm not the biggest fan of Stanley's tone, especially when he first got the Alembic basses

IIRC, Stanley was playing a Gibson EB-0 when Rick told him his tone sucked. 

[amptech]

IIRC, Stanley was playing a Gibson EB-0 when Rick told him his tone sucked. 

It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!
If he had only stuck with it, all those solo albums might have been listenable! And he'd hang out here with us

[Jeff Scott]

It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!
If he had only stuck with it, all those solo albums might have been listenable! And he'd hang out here with us

Okay, so it sucked twice as much (two pickups to provide the suck). 

[Dave W]

Okay, so it sucked twice as much (two pickups to provide the suck). 

The EB-2 only has one pickup (the rarer EB-2D has two).

[ilan]

It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!

Maybe for upright people, a bass with undefined tone and f-holes makes the move easier. Steve Swallow also had an EB2 period when he switched from upright to bass guitar. He once said in an old interview that it had to be a semi-acoustic bass, he couldn't bring himself to play a solidbody, he had to feel the bass vibrate against his chest like an upright.

[Jeff Scott]

The EB-2 only has one pickup (the rarer EB-2D has two).

Right you are, for some reason I read that as EB-3. 

[Jeff Scott]

Maybe for upright people, a bass with undefined tone and f-holes makes the move easier. Steve Swallow also had an EB2 period when he switched from upright to bass guitar. He once said in an old interview that it had to be a semi-acoustic bass, he couldn't bring himself to play a solidbody, he had to feel the bass vibrate against his chest like an upright.

So, what's the best bass for someone first switching from upright to electric? 

[ilan]

Metal, you mean?

[Highlander]

Curiously, from upright, I went to an EB2 copy...

[ilan]

Cosmic Rough Riders - an early 4004C, as if I needed another reason to like them

[uwe]

Has this been seen here yet?