Music videos that feature Rics

gearHed289 · July 31, 2024, 08:16:58 AM

Quote from: uwe on July 30, 2024, 01:06:13 PM
Bearded Holländers, a droning Hammond, classical melodies and a 4001, what's not to like?!

Horns and no guitar. Cool!

Quote from: morrow on July 31, 2024, 06:09:25 AM
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 · August 01, 2024, 08:53:04 AM

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 · August 01, 2024, 09:07:07 AM

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 · November 18, 2024, 04:50:43 PM

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 · November 19, 2024, 10:32:15 AM

Quote from: uwe on November 18, 2024, 04:50:43 PMHerr Weller with an unorthodox right hand style on a 4003/4001 ...

What, you never heard of slap bass?

uwe · November 19, 2024, 11:49:53 PM

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

uwe · November 21, 2024, 05:12:58 AM

Rare: Trevor Bolder, otherwise an EB-3 and P-Bass player, frees you with a 4001 ...

uwe · December 02, 2024, 03:30:58 AM

The late Ed Gagliardi with a lefty 4001:

Interestingly, he was a righty, but chose to play lefty "out of admiration (for) and devotion to Paul McCartney", so Wiki claims.

ilan · December 02, 2024, 07:55:25 AM

Wide guard, probably pre-1971

gearHed289 · December 02, 2024, 11:50:24 AM

Quote from: uwe on November 21, 2024, 05:12:58 AMRare: Trevor Bolder, otherwise an EB-3 and P-Bass player, frees you with a 4001 ...

I've seen Trevor with a Ric before, but not that one. Pretty sure it was black. I'd like to get a closer look at this white one. Wonder what's going on where the treble pickup goes?

Quote from: uwe on December 02, 2024, 03:30:58 AMThe late Ed Gagliardi with a lefty 4001:

Interestingly, he was a righty, but chose to play lefty "out of admiration (for) and devotion to Paul McCartney", so Wiki claims.

There's a guy in a Chicago-based Beatles tribute that switched to lefty.

And I'm pretty sure Ed had a greenburst Ibanez Rickenfaker early on.