Rickenbacker news from NAMM

Aussie Mark · January 14, 2010, 03:05:53 PM

http://www.rickenbacker.com/news_item.asp?news_id=58&news=recent

eb2 · January 14, 2010, 03:22:25 PM

Well, God love 'em for a sense of humor!

I was hoping those Japanese 4001s basses would be new.

Dave W · January 14, 2010, 06:03:01 PM

They could always do something a little different, like putting up a display of last year's cease-and-desist letters in their NAMM booth.

Denis · January 14, 2010, 06:52:01 PM

Hahahaha, brilliant!

ilan · January 15, 2010, 02:08:03 AM

gearHed289 · January 15, 2010, 09:14:36 AM

I LOVE those guys! Funny company. I love that they do what they do, and manage to stay in business.

Dave W · January 15, 2010, 09:34:28 AM

They not only manage to stay in business, they seem to do very well.

Highlander · January 15, 2010, 01:04:00 PM

... and maybe some nice chintzy curtains for the windows...

uwe · January 27, 2010, 03:54:10 AM

The link doesn't go anywhere anymore. What was it?

Dave W · January 27, 2010, 09:26:54 AM

The news was that there was no news.

QuoteAbsolutely nothing- same gear at the same prices.
Oh wait, the carpets! They're new and the stand has had a makeover too.
As you were.

uwe · January 27, 2010, 10:24:53 AM

And they still haven't reintroduced their 5-string with the pup magnetic field issues. How long can that possibly take?

Even Epi only needed a couple of weeks to get the pup issue on the TB Pro 5-stringers right. It seems that Ric is forever stuck with being able to get just one bass right, the 4001/4003.

Dave W · January 27, 2010, 10:48:11 AM

Quote from: uwe on January 27, 2010, 10:24:53 AM
And they still haven't reintroduced their 5-string with the pup magnetic field issues. How long can that possibly take? Even Epi only needed a couple of weeks to get the pup issue on the TB Pro 5-stringers right. It seems that Ric is forever stuck with being able to get just one bass right, the 4001/4003.

They have priorities and this isn't one of them.

John Hall answered this way back at DP 2. He said that according to a certain trade magazine, all of the ten best selling basses were 4 stringers. He just wasn't prepared to use his already overloaded resources to make something that doesn't sell well.

IMO it's another case of what you read on bass forums not matching the real world.

eb2 · January 27, 2010, 11:21:53 AM

Then I guess the 4003 short scale isn't going to happen again.

But those Epi EB-0s do sell a lot. Sales are there, Rickenbacker! Go for it!

uwe · January 27, 2010, 04:37:25 PM

It's one thing to decide; We don't do five strings. Perfectly acceptable. Quite another though to bring one out, mess up - ooops! - with the pups, promise a solution (as they did at the time) and then do nothing about it for years. That is just sloppy and not at all with Ric's carefully tended image. My German enginneering ethics are hugely offended. Problems are zere to find technical solutions, jawohl! We didn't stop improving on the brakes of the Porsche either after Jimmy D. crashed his.

patman · February 04, 2010, 10:31:58 AM

I would love to find a 4003 locally, but the used prices on these things are insane...Ric with flats was my sound for a lot of years...

I paid $300 for my 4001 in the early 80's...

Cinti craigslist has a beat player (80's or 90's) for $1400?

When did the price on these go thru the ceiling?