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Definitive 'Ric' bass tracks?


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They may already have been posted but for me it's Greenslade 'Time and Tide' (Animal Farm), Rush 'Hemispeheres', all early Yes (Yes, Time And A Word (when it comes in at 0.46 on Dear Father), The Yes Album). They may have been posted already but I cannot see most of the attachments/links posted above.

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[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1394529325' post='2392153']
How about posting some more recent Ric tracks then?
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From less than a decade ago, possibly, including badly-timed bass fail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMGgqXCLVw

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http://m.vevo.com/watch/oasis/go-let-it-out/GB0209902780#!

Oasis - Go Let It Out.

Full of fuzzy 4005 goodness..



(By the way, can anyone please tell me how to embed the full page vid link? I am doing it from my android and can only seem to cut and paste the URL address. Which is annoying. For everyone. Cheers)

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[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1394534478' post='2392263']
Dunno whether it's a Rick or a faker, but I like the sound on Bold as Brass by Split Enz:

[media]http://youtu.be/lAoiZL7dHkY[/media]
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Nigel Grigg's brother Paul Davis (stage name) said that Nigel had a 4001 before he joined Split Enz. [url="http://www.rickbeat.com/photofeatures/pauldavid/pauldavid.htm"]http://www.rickbeat....d/pauldavid.htm[/url]

In the video for My Mistake from the same album, Nigel appears to be playing a Jazz bass. There's then always the question of whether the bass he's playing in the video is the same one that he played on the track.

PS: For Neil Finn, one thing about being a well known muso with a long career is that even when you're in your 50s, there are still videos of you as a teenager wearing heavy makeup all over the net.

Edit: Here's Nigel Griggs miming with his Ric 4001 in about 1972 or 1973.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtczpnT0lQ

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[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1394561389' post='2392759']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkwBOSAfr1w

Nothing new?

Our new EP, recorded and released this year, 100% Ric. Available to buy and stream from all leading sites (shameless plug!)
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Great stuff, that! (And lovely Ric tone as well!) Can I get your EP off Bandcamp?

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Many thanks, Mr. Moose! :)

It's available to buy through Amazon, iTunes (only £3.16), etc., and also can be streamed through Spotify, Google Play, and others. It's called 'Bring It...'

Amazon charge a fraction more (£3.56) - they all choose their own pricing!

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bring-Howlin-Wolves/dp/B00HZX4BHI/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1394623932&sr=8-7&keywords=the+howlin+wolves"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bring-Howlin-Wolves/dp/B00HZX4BHI/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1394623932&sr=8-7&keywords=the+howlin+wolves[/url]

4 tracks and 20 minutes of maximum R'n'B - all with the glorious tone of a Ric thrown in!

Perhaps I should stop pushing the free option....!! :blush:

[size=4]Love to know your thoughts if you indulge......[/size]

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1394625654' post='2393388']
I was going to suggest 'Fat Goth' as a band name, but of course it's already been done... :rolleyes:
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And misleading in the same way that "Hot Japanese Girl" were neither hot, Japanese or girls!

While I was looking for a suitable Fat Goth track to post I noticed some others where the bassist is playing a Fender, but he still sounds exactly the same. Maybe the Ric isn't quite so distinctive after all?

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1394626277' post='2393403']
Maybe the Ric isn't quite so distinctive after all?
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Re: about a million threads on tone, fingers, gear etc. McCartney's Ric sounded very different to Squire's Ric (for example). I think most bass gear can be made to sound like most other bass gear. It's just down to personal preference, imo. *Nomex suit ON*

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1394627250' post='2393419']
Re: about a million threads on tone, fingers, gear etc. McCartney's Ric sounded very different to Squire's Ric (for example). I think most bass gear can be made to sound like most other bass gear. It's just down to personal preference, imo. *Nomex suit ON*
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*clutches fire extinguisher* I think you're right - compare late '60s John Entwistle with James Jamerson and you'd probably struggle to believe they were both playing Fender Ps. Certain tonal characteristics of the bass will probably still come through - e.g., people buy Precisions "for the thump," or they buy Rics "for the clank" - but you can radically change that tone through various means. Which probably explains why no one can decide whether Geddy was playing his Ric or his Jazz on [i]Tom Sawyer[/i]!

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1394626277' post='2393403']
And misleading in the same way that "Hot Japanese Girl" were neither hot, Japanese or girls!

While I was looking for a suitable Fat Goth track to post I noticed some others where the bassist is playing a Fender, but he still sounds exactly the same. Maybe the Ric isn't quite so distinctive after all?
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For that kind of tone it seems to me that it's as much about the distortion ( what kind, how it's applied, and how much) as the bass itself. A Rickenbacker has a naturally growly tone , but if you start adding distortion that unique character is diminished somewhat as the distortion is a bit of leveller when it comes to the finer points of the tonal differences between the unaffected sound of individual basses. So in that respect I am not surprised this guy sounds the same on a Fender. I know someone who sold a Precision Bass to Chris Squire and he was amazed that when he presented it to him that Chris proceeded to pick it up, plug it to his rig in and sound exactly the same as he does on his famous Rickenbacker.

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1394626277' post='2393403']
While I was looking for a suitable Fat Goth track to post I noticed some others where the bassist is playing a Fender, but he still sounds exactly the same. Maybe the Ric isn't quite so distinctive after all?
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Likewise, I was thinking of posting some of the old Sensational Alex Harvey Band stuff, as Chris Glen used a Ric a lot and often sounded great on record, but watching some live footage I realised I wouldn't be able to tell which was the Ric and which was his single-coil Precision. I'm sure that if I sat and listened to a player swapping from one to the other I would notice the difference in sound, but there is a definite overlap in the way a given bass player can sound on both instruments.

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1394626277' post='2393403']
And misleading in the same way that "Hot Japanese Girl" were neither hot, Japanese or girls!

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I fell for a very similar ruse when I voted for some bloke called Tony Blair who had a band back in the days of Britopop called" New Labour". Needless to say, they turned out to be nothing of the sort.

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As a good 10+ year Ric player - with a few diversions elsewhere - I can only state for personal opinion that my playing on any other bass, doesn't sound anything my sound like a Ric - I played a P for a bit last year, and my sound, well, sounded like a P!

So much so that I soon moved straight back to a Ric.....

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