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Gear Discussion Forums => Rickenbacker Basses => Topic started by: Denis on July 24, 2010, 05:05:19 AM

Title: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: Denis on July 24, 2010, 05:05:19 AM

Don't see too many of these on Craigslist!
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/msg/1857971423.html

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: Bert on July 24, 2010, 05:57:42 AM

Don't see too many of these at all. ;-) I feel this one is a little too expensive though.

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: ilan on July 24, 2010, 06:13:49 AM

What a beauty. I love them in Jetglo.

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: Dave W on July 24, 2010, 11:11:29 AM

I think that price is just about right for today's inflated Rick market in the US. Sure looks nice too.

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: eb2 on July 25, 2010, 11:51:40 PM

In the tastes great/less filling world, I fall on the side of this one being priced nicely.  You don't see too many clean 70s 4000's for less than 2g's. Plus I like the old tuners.

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: hieronymous on July 26, 2010, 10:17:36 AM

I think I've said this before, but I used to hate the 4000 - I thought it looked weird without the neck pickup - but I changed my mind when I saw the video of Stanley Clarke playing one with Return to Forever before he started using Alembics.

I just played a 4000 the other day - I attended the first "(San Francisco) Bay Area Rickenbacker Confluence" (or BARC - the other name choice was "Bay Area Ric Festival" but that would be BARF) the other day and someone had an early '70s 4000. I brought my amp in to compare the sounds and it had a nice growly sound. Here's a (bad) pic of it, next to my 4001 and someone else's 4001S:

(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5104/triox.jpg)

Next time we do something like this I want to record the different basses for comparison.

Oh, and +1 to the relatively fair pricing...

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: eb2 on September 22, 2010, 04:14:00 PM

Quick - who's in Florida?

http://orlando.craigslist.org/msg/1956929940.html

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: nofi on September 23, 2010, 08:50:42 AM

i had a 4000 in fireglow with labella tapes on it. almost  perfect tone for me back then. i think i paid a couple hundred bucks for it.

Title: Re: 4000 on Craigslist
Post by: warriorbass05 on October 27, 2010, 08:20:01 AM

I had a 4000 once....miss it!!! 73FG