Music videos that feature Rics

[gearHed289]

Bearded Holländers, a droning Hammond, classical melodies and a 4001, what's not to like?!

Horns and no guitar. Cool!

Some of those Ric glows are serious pieces of art. There's gradations on the sides , neck and headstock . It's not just the front and back.

Yeah, they sadly seem to have stopped doing that fairly recently. My '93 4003S/8 FireGlo isn't perfect, but it's beautiful.

[uwe]

I take it then that Ekseption were an unknown quantity in the US! In Germany, you could pretty much put a bet on it that anyone who owned ELP and The Nice albums in the late 60s/early 70s, also had something from Ekseption. They even had hit singles and albums (in The Netherlands and Germany) with some of their classical adaptions.





All these bands ultimately go back to this guy here:





Ekseption were the kind of band where your music teacher in school would say: "Well, these guys can at least play!"

Rob, are you related with the Ekseption trumpet player Rein van den Broek?

[ilan]

I never liked bursted sides. Sunburst started as a nod to old violin tops that get darker near the edges. Obviously I'm in the minority opinion on this but bursting the edges makes no sense to me, logically or aesthetically. Same for bursted Ric headstocks. YMMV

[uwe]

Herr Weller with an unorthodox right hand style on a 4003/4001 ...

And his acolyte with a 4005 that actually belonged/belongs to Paul Weller and was loaned to Noel for the recording of the fourth Oasis album ("Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants ...") when the band were temporarily without a bassist, with Noel rising to the occasion with typical Mancunian swagger: "Well, it's only a friggin' bass, how hard can it be?!":

Actually, his bass riff in the verses is a nice one, a little on the psychedelic side.

[gearHed289]

Herr Weller with an unorthodox right hand style on a 4003/4001 ...

What, you never heard of slap bass? 

[uwe]

On this particular song at least I DON'T HEAR IT!