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Yeh, I remember the ads with Jaco touting the Guild Pilot. Looks better there than I recall in the ads!

That wouldn't be on Gumtree by any chance? That exact phrase is almost unique to Gumtree responses I get. When I respond 'Yes, still here!' I hear nothing back say 70% of the time. I often wonder if it's a bot response to keep your ad active. Wonder when Gumtree will start charging on sales....

Toured Europe many times as a tech and have a fondness for Germany and Denmark especially. Everything Twigman says, two posts abovd, is spot-on.

Didn't he own a JD at some point?

Yeh, and there's no bevel on the lower sections of the 'guard. Looks odd.

Looks sort of Strandbergish....

Yeh, pretty tempting.

Anyone seen this? Newport bass replica

New to me. I kinda like that 'Signature' model with the Q-Tuner pickups.

There was a guy, Slab66, selling custom orders of the bass on here at one point.

I would die a happy man if that ever came to pass.

That thing has been up on his site for ten years, easy.

Here you go, fellas..... Who is John Hall? Oh, there are so many epithets!

Right, dad!

There was no implication that anyone else's opnion does not count. How do you arrive at that from me stating someone is 'champion' of a brand?

Well, Grecos have ceramic pups so they're not gonna sound like your '72. Did I make a fanboy accusation? Don't think I did. However, Prowla asked what copies were s good as Ricks and I offered Greco. He dismissed that with brevity. Fair enough. I just happen to disagree with him on that point. Bar my '73 and CS, I had issues with every other Rick bass I had. Combine that with the attitude of the rottweiler who is the subject of this thread and you can see why some players become jaded, if not dejected with RIC. Or even a tad reactionary. Nota Bene: I don't mean to cause offence. If I have, I apologise forthwith.

In my experience, yes. By a long chalk. Dwell in this: at one point I owned 8 4000 series basses; now I have none. Yet I have three Greco Ricks. Had them for several years. Does that not tell you something? In fact, don't bother replying. I've read your posts across various fora and you clearly are a champion of the RIC brand. Just please don't doubt they're the be-all and end-all of basses, for they aren't. Far from it!

Any copy by Greco. Fact!

4002 wings How hard could it be? And in that thread in 2006 Hall says he has 4002 pups locked away in a drawer. They were on USA ebay. Pretty sure the wings were sold by the 'Jersey Butcher. Perhaps they were full bodies, but it's all lost in the mists of time. One set of wings popped up on an auction site a few years ago.

Hall seemed to take great delight in stating that there would never be a 4002 run again. I can't remember what the excuse was. Yet for years a pallet of 4002 wings sat idle out at Santa Ana. Mysteriously, they turned up on ebay ten years back, some married to necks. I very much doubt those were fakes. Their existence was explained as the work of an ex-employee, IIRC.

That place I remember in Blackrock was called 'Beat It Music' or Danny Hughes' Music'. They had all kinds of vintage gear, from guitars/basses to amps, cabs, echo units, you name it. They also had affordable kit along with high-end stuff like Lowdens. I always made a point of stopping off there on the way down from Belfast to Dublin. I went in last summer and all the vintage kit was gone! All of it.