Shaggy

Looking like this babe is staying with me, but a mid-week bump anyway

Cheers Schozz, but 1. WTF is that in your avatar? 2. Why are you selling all your bass gear?

[quote name='Oggy' post='959233' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:02 AM']Hi Basschatters, I’m gutted . I bought this from Derren two week ago on this site and I’m really happy with her; IMO it fits right in with the ‘Blues’ look sounds great and plays really well. I really like her but my ‘so called’ band mates just don’t like her :snob: , it’s not the sound – they can’t fault that – it’s the look, they keep telling me it would be more suited to a ‘middle of the road’ band. I’ve argued the point but they just won’t be moved and insist that I use either the Mustang or my Gibson SG.[/quote] Not meaning to stir, but I'd be out of that band like a shot. They'll be telling you not to wear your pants over your trousers next.......... :snob: Anyway, glad it looks like a deal's on here - cracking little bass!

Lush Antigua fretless P - my all-time favourite Fender finish! Cool bass bump

Cheers Stag, but we both know it's the cat I really want Also; forgot to mention earlier that the bass is a 2005 model not 2003 - first post edited.

You can't go wrong with a Jaco Jazz, Ziggor! Enjoy it. Schnozalee - true words - this a "double niche" bass being both fretless AND a Rickenbacker. Have to say though, having played mainly fretless and almost entirely finger-style for 30+ years, this bass in its current set-up is one of the very, very best I've played, and I've played the best there is. I'm only considering letting it go as 1. I recently acquired a Wal Mk 1 Custom fretless, and 2. I'm GAS-ing for my main weakness - a rare vintage Gibson. Oh well

Thanks Grossmit - hoping your Roscoe goes! No other BC love for a fab fretless?

I really like that - pure rockabilly - rather like the Sparrow Hot Rod guitars that are also Canadian I think. If I didn't have 4 semi's already ( [i] oo-er, F'nar F'nar[/i] etc ) I'd snap this up, but bumpo for a cool bass

One-time price drop to £1150 - after tonight will be away & PC-less until next Tues (7th); any PM's replied to then G

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.........though I admit the original opal white p/g looks more "trad" Ric, and as stated will be included with the bass. The idea was also - since I was upgrading the bass to my personal tastes - to make a "twin" for my maple-board '78 fretless Fender P, which is also natural / tort.

Au contraire, that [b]is[/b] the reverse shape; [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1963.php"]http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1963.php[/url] & this is the non-reverse; [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1966.php"]http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1966.php[/url] Anyway, whatever it is - cool bass at cheap price from top guy to deal with!

[quote name='Beedster' post='933512' date='Aug 23 2010, 12:07 PM']I have to say that, with much recent DB and fretless playing, this bass is starting to really 're-grow' on me, albeit somewhat too late in the day! When I owned it, although I loved its depth, I found the lack of really tight and sparkly top end, compared to fretless Fenders for example, a little limiting. Now I've learned how to get the best out of the dusty end of a DB fretboard, I'm realising that the fault was with the player not the machine. In my bass playing experience, DB and electric, I've yet to come across a bass on which the strings resonate with the whole instrument as they did with this bass. I remember reading Ric's marketing and thinking 'there's no way that's gonna sound like a Double Bass', but it really can produce a lovely sweet and melodic 'loose' sound. That said, it can do the opposite also - the first time we did Whole Lotta Love this baby absolutely rocked the place with a monstrously powerful sound that made me realise why the likes of Lemmy use Rics. And McCartney's lines? Whadaya reckon? Anyway, I sincerely wish I had £1200 lying around that wasn't already earmarked for the studio! Greg's also a great guy to deal with also, so you'll know you're getting both a special bass and a totally up-front genuine seller here C[/quote] Thanks Chris, great description of the bass, and I'm really going to have to get into this DB / EUB thing myself! Though given a pot of money I'd have snapped up that unfeasably gorgeous LPB '64 P of yours Best of luck with the studio project! [quote name='Stag' post='933594' date='Aug 23 2010, 01:17 PM']As an avower lover of Ric I would really like to hear this actually, never heard an FL one... someone is gonna be a happy happy man I think, free pickups and spare guard, Beedster's seal of approval... what more could a buyer want! [/quote] ......I swear that cat blinked at me......

Holiday Bump from a soggy Wales Been some speculation in other threads about what these rare birds sound like. Unsuprisingly sounds like a Rick; a fretless Jazz Bass is still a Jazz bass, a fretless Wal is still a Wal; just with added "mwah". So on the classic combined p/up setting you get that cutting, middy growl; but here considerably mellowed by the use of flats - think late Beatles-era Paul McCartney and early Pink Floyd. I was thinking of trying D'addario half-round ("groundwound") strings on the next change to get a bit more zing without trashing the fingerboard lacquer. What did make a big difference to this bass was fitting the vintage toaster; as I mentioned in my OP it sounds remarkably double-bassy; not just the tone but the whole attack / swell / decay dynamics of the note. No "clank" here, although I'm sure it could be got!