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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: ilan on May 02, 2008, 03:37:14 AM
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Hello all... I just joined here today. Nice place! Good work, Uwe and Dave.
Some of you will recognize my name from the FDP, Dude Pit, and the Rickresource forum. For those who don't... My name is Ilan Lukatch, I'm 46 years old, a TV news journalist in Israel. I love vintage Fenders and Rics, and have owned quite a few over the years. The general rule is that if I don't play it, I sell it, no case queens here.
Here's a pic of my current herd:
(http://65.23.158.135/userphotos/photo.php?id=53986)
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Welcome and nice Ric's!
Quite a collection.
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Welcome aboard!!
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Shalom, Ilan! Schön, dass Du hier bist.
We don't have a Ric forum here yet and I kind of miss that. So if there is enough interest, Herr Westheimer might be gracious.
Uwe
PS: Don't tell anybody, but I do like that chocolate J with the block inlays!
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Hello, Ilan. That's quite impressive.
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Thanks for the warm welcome!
PS: don't tell anybody, but I feel GAS for a Gibson bass... A Fireburst SG Supreme bass haunts my dreams. ;)
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Hey Ilan, nice to see you! Good to have another Ric enthusiast around - I know you mainly from the RickResource Forum - but it's nice to see you have other cool instruments as well! (And watch out for that Gibson bug...)
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(And watch out for that Gibson bug...)
As you can see I've already been bitten by that bug with my 6-string guitars... ;D I did have a nice '68 EB2C but it didn't work for what I was playing so I sold it. It was, however, the best looking bass I have ever owned.
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Love those Ricks....kinda makes homesick for my old '73 4001 :-\
Very Nice.
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The black, dot neck, Ric one reminds me of Gearheds , except he put a mirror pickguard on his.
The problem with Gibsons are, everyone is so different from another Gibson or any other bass out there, you keep buying them, because that bass only sounds like it.
You turn around and you end up own 10 Gibsons!
Ask Daniel.
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Welcome, Ilan. Good to see you around again. I love that Country Gent!
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Hi Ilan,
You forgot to mention TBL. ;) Glad you found us. When I sent out emails announcing our launch, yours was returned as undeliverable, but the address I had for you was probably from some years-old TBL correspondence.
I not only remember your EB-2C, I have a pic of you playing it in my Gibson pics collection.
If there's enough interest in a separate Rick board, we can always add one. So far, there hasn't been much if anything posted.
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welcome aboard,and very nice collection......i dig those Ric's and P's
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The Bottom Line mailing list... forgot about that... it's been a while! With the ascii art logo... That was the first time I was in an online bass community.
Yes, my email address has changed since then. The one in my profile here is the correct one.
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Hi there! Welcome!
Love the Gretsch! take your time but tell us some more about that once in the 'other bass brands' forum. + pics.
Like Uwe, I love the chocolate too! There's a great chocolate 70s J in a local shop here. Too expensive though:( Always have to play that, though I prefer Ps over Js.
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The Gretsch? It's a '64 Model 6070. Long scale, single pickup. Huge body, and the fattest neck you can imagine. I saw it on TV in 1993, had to have it, took me two hours to find the guy who played it on TV (thru mutual friends), only to learn that he already sold it to another guy who sold it to a third person. Nagged the owner for a year, until he broke down and agreed to trade it for another bass. He wanted a MIJ Squier J in Oly White so I went out and bought one for him.
I have it strung with Rotosound Tru Bass black nylon strings, they make it sound like the epitome of 60's bass tone.
It's a poor man's 4005WB ;)
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Single pup and then that far back? Sort of the antidote to an EB-2 then.
I like it though that headstock"plate" is a little an acquired taste!
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Cool story about a cool bass!
Entwistle talks in his book about his Monkees Gretsch. 'It takes a gorilla to play it' or something he says. In other interviews he also talks about the huge necks. Same as your I guess....
Poor man's 4005? Wouldn't say that! Gretsches are great!
My 4005 isn't that good... Uwe's slightly better I believe.
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My 4005 has a voice of its own, a sort of glistening presence with sufficient bass and few low mids, but frankly I do not wonder why this bass did not set the world on fire. A 4001/4003 has a much more identifiable voice. The 4005 is looks, rarity and myth.
Uwe
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If there's enough interest in a separate Rick board, we can always add one. So far, there hasn't been much if anything posted.
I'm responding really late, and maybe this isn't the best place to say it, but I would love to see a dedicated Rickenbacker forum! I've got a couple of things in the works that I could post about, and I'm sure other people would jump in. The RickResource Forum (http://www.rickresource.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=2) is a culture of its own, and I'm not too fond of the official Rickenbacker forum (http://www.rickenbacker.com/forum_view.asp?forum=Just_Basses)...
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Harry, it's one of the things we've discussed recently, and it's definitely under active consideration. Thanks for the input.
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Give the horsehoes what they want!!!