Music videos that feature Rics

[uwe]

Now this is a real Ric: Hellmut Hattler + Kraan krautrock-a-jazzin'... It was the bass he became known for in Germany (in the 70ies he was seen as Germany's best bass guitarist by a stretch) before he switched to Ibanez in the late 70ies and then other brands (Status, Warwick).

[ilan]

And this one sounds like a real Ric too.

[uwe]

And played with a pick as is proper for a Ric!

(That rhymed, in case you didn’t notice.)

That Rimson ‘Ric’ sounds a bit like a WAL, doesn’t it?

[uwe]

Brit Pop played properly - with a Ric played sat down of course:




More Ric goodness, this time standing up:

[uwe]

Expect the unexpected ...




... Bill Wyman not only with a low slung (!) Ric (!!), but a 4005er one (!!!) to boot!!!!

[Dave W]

Keith played bass on the recorded version, and I think the video is Mick singing live while the rest of the band mimes the recorded track.

[uwe]

Sure, I knew that. Keith's busy to nervous/playful original bass track is legendary.



You can hear it's instrumentally mimed - there are even a couple of moments where Mick is not near the mike and having his mouth closed while singing is going on. He sang parts of it live, but not all.

But seeing Bill with a not short- or medium-scale bass and then a Ric of all basses is a seldom sight. Maybe it was just a studio prop or maybe he felt inclined to give it a try as the less-than-long-scale of a Ric was attractive to him, who knows.

[gearHed289]

That's not a Ric, it's a Shaftesbury.

[uwe]

Oh wow, good eyes Proggie Boy (and I thought you were only good at counting uneven meters!), one lives and learns.

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/shaftesbury/bass/1970s_3263.php




I didn't even know that anybody ever bothered to copy the 4005 look.

[Dave W]

I didn't even know that anybody ever bothered to copy the 4005 look.

DH Gate and Ali Express have plenty of 4005 copies, in the $300-500 range. Highest quality, I'm sure. 

[morrow]

When they did the limited 4005XC short scale , some were saying it was a Shaftesbury copy.

[ilan]

When they did the limited 4005XC short scale , some were saying it was a Shaftesbury copy.

It was, in a way.

It happened to other big names. When Gibson made the Slash signature Les Paul they meticulously copied his Appetite For Destruction guitar, which was a replica/knockoff/faker with a Gibson logo, not a real Gibson  So people are paying $3-4K for what in effect is a copy of a copy. Fender did something similar in 1982, when they examined Japanese-made copies, some of which were far superior to late 70s Fenders, and re-learned from them how to make good Strats again. So some of Fender's best vintage reissues were acually replicas of east Asian knockoffs.

[gearHed289]

Oh wow, good eyes Proggie Boy (and I thought you were only good at counting uneven meters!), one lives and learns.

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/shaftesbury/bass/1970s_3263.php




I didn't even know that anybody ever bothered to copy the 4005 look.

The pointy horns were a quick giveaway. The original 4005 has bulbous horns. And as the other guys have said - the 4005XC is like a copy of a copy!

[uwe]

It was, in a way.

It happened to other big names. When Gibson made the Slash signature Les Paul they meticulously copied his Appetite For Destruction guitar, which was a replica/knockoff/faker with a Gibson logo, not a real Gibson  So people are paying $3-4K for what in effect is a copy of a copy. Fender did something similar in 1982, when they examined Japanese-made copies, some of which were far superior to late 70s Fenders, and re-learned from them how to make good Strats again. So some of Fender's best vintage reissues were acually replicas of east Asian knockoffs.

Enter Roger Waters and his famed black P bass which was an amalgamation of lots of things with very little true Fender content. They slavishly reverse-engineered it anyway for his signature model. You can make ticking clock sounds with it too!



There is something very bricklayer'ish to Waters' bass playing which I greatly enjoy. Not the refined tasteful parts that were generally done by Gilmour in the studio - I like Waters' meat & potatoes playing, it's honest work and he approaches it that way. Another note, another buck.

[ilan]

Agreed. He's a good bass player. Although his real genius is composing masterpieces.

I didn't know his P was a parts bass. So I looked it up and learned that it started life as a 1970 black Fender P, and now has a Charvel-made maple cap neck with a Fender spaghetti logo and a Schecter alnico 5 pickup.