Music videos that feature Rics

[uwe]

Ah, now we know. Though I never really see Roger using those knobs much during a concert.

To give Vigier some credit - you always hear his bass extremely well at DP gigs. And one gig I saw where his Vigier sound was missing because Nicky Fyffe deputized for him (Roger had a knee operation) and played some other, more passive sounding bass, the difference was glaring, all that shiny percussive trebly bass drive so typical for Purple was missing.



(And there he plays his natural Vigier at a Purple gig after all!)

[wellREDman]

One is a switch and the other is a pot. Makes perfect sense. In a Les Paul or Ric 4001, you can balance the two pickups to your liking, then you can switch between neck, both or bridge, but if in the middle position you want, for example, full neck and 50% bridge, that means that when you solo the bridge you get a volume drop. With a switch and a balance knob you can avoid it.

aaah ok that makes sense

[Jeff Scott]

We saw Steve Hackett last night (Genesis Revisited)!    They did the Spectral Mornings and Selling England by the Pound albums. Lots of use of a FG 4003 by Jonas Reingold, along with his Wal double neck (12 string guitar/4 string bass), a fretless Jazz Bass, and some PRS single-cut style guitar (don't know what it was).

Phenomenal show; the played for almost three hours.  They also performed "Dance on a Volcano", and Los Endos", along with some new songs by Steve, and he dedicated a song to his great friend, Chris Squire!   

This video is from a few months earlier, in Europe.

[gearHed289]

Sounds like a great show! He's here in Chicago on Saturday. Wish I could go, but I had a gig come up. 

[uwe]

Did Jonas balance his Ric on his forehead at the end of the show? He did when I saw them this year.

[Jeff Scott]

Did Jonas balance his Ric on his forehead at the end of the show? He did when I saw them this year.

Yes, he did, and then threw it off to stage left, where I assume someone caught it! 

[uwe]

And people say that Rics don't balance well, tsk, tsk, tsk, little do they know ...

[ilan]

And people say that Rics don't balance well, tsk, tsk, tsk, little do they know ...

Who ever said that?! Rossmeisl's original 4000 Series design was the first bass with elongated top horn. If there's one thing about Rics that everybody agrees on is that they balance perfectly. Unlike, uhh, Gibsons maybe?

[Dave W]

Who ever said that?! Rossmeisl's original 4000 Series design was the first bass with elongated top horn. If there's one thing about Rics that everybody agrees on is that they balance perfectly. Unlike, uhh, Gibsons maybe?

The first bass with an elongated top horn? Fender Precision, 1951. 

You're right that there's no problem with balance on the 4000/4001/4003.

[gearHed289]

Who ever said that?! Rossmeisl's original 4000 Series design was the first bass with elongated top horn. If there's one thing about Rics that everybody agrees on is that they balance perfectly. Unlike, uhh, Gibsons maybe?

I didn't want to say anything... 

No neck dive!

[uwe]

With all due respect, liebe Rickies, but your beloved instruments might not dive, but they do straighten out/go horizontal - unlike Fenders. Now I don't have issues with that - I like my bass nearly horizontal rather than angled
to my fretting hand, but other people (Fenderistas especially) don't.

[ilan]

Huh? maybe your S/8 does that, understandably, but both my 4-stringers have perfect balance, certainly better than my 70's P's and J which balance well but not perfectly.

[amptech]

Huh? maybe your S/8 does that, understandably, but both my 4-stringers have perfect balance, certainly better than my 70's P's and J which balance well but not perfectly.

Hear hear, my '75 Rick 4001 balances well. My '74 P balances too - if you are fit enough to lift it!

[gearHed289]

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin. Apparently he is famous for doing soundtracks to Italian horror movies in the 70s. I just saw this lineup Sunday night in Chicago. They rolled the movie Deep Red and played the soundtrack bits live. I would have liked more music and less movie, but it was interesting. You might recognize the bass player Cecilia Nappo from the band Black Mamba, whose cover of Highway Boobs... I mean Star. Highway STAR was posted somewhere on the Outpost not too long ago. She can play!

Music starts at 1:55

[4stringer77]