Music videos that feature Rics

[Alanko]

Some fine footwork/English schlager musik here.

Standouts are the archaic double-manual Vox organ (not getting played) and the 4001 with replacement pickguard. Groovy.




They were apparently from Weston-super-Mare, which has a helicopter museum but is otherwise considered a bit of a shithole apparently.

[ilan]

Phil Lynott popularized the black-with-mirror-pickguard look. Groovy indeed

[gearHed289]

Some fine footwork/English schlager musik here.

Standouts are the archaic double-manual Vox organ (not getting played) and the 4001 with replacement pickguard. Groovy.

Fancy footwork indeed. Fun and cheesy, but what the heck? The world could use a little more fun these days.

Phil Lynott popularized the black-with-mirror-pickguard look.

Yes he did!

[uwe]

Rob doesn't like Racey, he's said so. Humorless Holländer that he is.

Of course they were throwaway bubblegum (from the Chinn/Chapman hit factory that also wrote most of the singles for Sweet, Mud, Smokie and Suzi Quatro), but fun nonetheless.



One of their own songs however



became a greater US hit than any Chinn/Chapman song - for someone else!




"They were apparently from Weston-super-Mare, which has a helicopter museum but is otherwise considered a bit of a shithole apparently."

I'll give you "shithole" !!!


Weston-super-Mare is legendary for fancy footwork.



Its inhabitants always exhibiting a fine sense of dress.

[Jeff Scott]

Some good Rickenbacker footage here, along with a superb interview about the DJ who broke Rush in the US.  I used to listen to her on 'MMS back in the day. 

[uwe]

I'm flabbergasted.

My preconceptions have come under nuclear attack.

She's obviously a woman. A very likable one at that.

And yet she says she likes Rush.

There must be a man involved, it's Stockholm Syndrome of the worst kind. 

[Jeff Scott]

I'm flabbergasted.

My preconceptions have come under nuclear attack.

She's obviously a woman. A very likable one at that.

And yet she says she likes Rush.

There must be a man involved, it's Stockholm Syndrome of the worst kind. 

Well, she is the one who "made" Rush in the US...  And shes noted in"Spirit of Radio"along with other stuff. 

[Alanko]

Another fine piece of pop music. I eagerly await the lineage between this band and Deep Purple Mk2 to he charted out by our inteligencia.

[ilan]

That wan't easy to watch 

[Alanko]

Yeah it is a rogue's charter of dated, slightly parochial pop culture references. The "drummer" is actually Noel Edmonds, one of the rare British TV presenters of the 1970s who hadn't been giga-cancelled.

[uwe]

Not everything can be connected to Purple (and I'm relieved that in this case it wasn't), painful as it is to admit.

Anyway, Jim Lea with a Ric. During their American wilderness years, when they vainly tried to crack the market there and even flirted with soul influences. Catchy tune, but it didn't bring that elusive US hit.

[ilan]

Can't put my finger on any specific detail but I'm getting strong Rickenfaker vibes here.

[uwe]

OMG, delete, delete!!!



That could actually very well be, Jim Lea often used basses of brands other than his beloved Gibson and Jaydee EBs/SGs just as props for TV appearances, his Ibanez Flying V among them.

That said, he was sometimes seen with a white John Birch 4001 style bass which he apparently actually played.



Here's a better quality version of the Nobody's Fool vid.

[ilan]

The bass in the video has a skunk stripe (started '72) and a toaster (discontinued in early '73). '72 had the tug bar, by '73 it was gone. So if it's a real Ric, and assuming no one had a reason to install a tug bar in the lower position, then it's a '72.

The telltale sign of even good copies is the binding continuing behind the bridge. Real Rics don't have it there (the body wings are first bound and then glued to the center neck-thru). Lea's bass looks like the binding stops exactly where it should on a real Ric.

[Jeff Scott]

Toasters were around into the mid-late summer of '73.  The July '73 4001 I had (a friend of mine has it these days) sports its original toaster.