Cosmo Valdemar

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[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1502045235' post='3348966'] Cheers guys......it will be on a J rather than P, but sounds like a Soul Food will fit the bill. [/quote] Front pickup then 😁 Easy to sell on too if you don't like it. I think you will though.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1502046372' post='3348978'] However, he also used the Jazz bass ever since 1982, or 35 years. So compared to 7 years, its hard to say that he is associated with it. [/quote] Apologies, didn't mean to attack you personally. It just always seems that on a thread about Ricks someone always lists players who once played them but have since moved on to other things. I don't play a Fender Precision at the moment, haven't for years. Doesn't mean my Fenderbird or Yamaha is any better, they just make the noises I like hearing at the moment. The irony is, for all my OTT defensiveness, I am actually an ex-4003 owner 😂 That bit about Geddy's Jazz is still wrong though 😉

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1502038409' post='3348895'] It does seem that of all the people who are associated with rics, very few stuck with them for any length of time, apart from Chris Squier (who said his sounded very different from other rics), and Lemmy (who had a lot of fake rics). I saw from a the Jam and he plays a P bass (and a semi acoustic one). Geddy Lee has played jazzes for most of his career (and started with Ps - the time with the Ric was actually fairly short). Roger Glover had P basses as well as Rics, but hasn't played them for a while. [/quote] Here we go again... Geddy played the Rick over 8 albums from 1975 to 1982. He started playing the Jazz in the early 80s but then switched to Steinberger. He then used the Wals for a few years and on less albums than he used the Rick, but people don't use this as an excuse to rubbish Wals. Roger Glover used lots of different basses in his career, and it's only really with the Vigier he plays today that he's really stuck with one. During his first stint with DP he used the Rick on two albums against one with the Precision and one with a Mustang. During the 80s and 90s he played Peavey and Tune. Lemmy having 'a lot of fake Rics' - possibly. He had real ones too. And s signature model. Chris Squire always said his bass sounded different to other Ricks but it doesn't really. You'd have to AB to notice the differences. Apologies for coming over a bit defensive but it's getting a bit tiresome now, reeling off a list of dubious facts and people who once played Ricks but now don't as 'proof' of how crap the instruments are.

I think the Bass Soul Food is excellent and can easily do the Chelsea Dagger sound. With a P bass that is 😉

I've never had the opportunity to play one sadly but I think 'Bongo Alternative' is going to be my new stage name.

Andertons is still showing 15th August for the white one... tempted to order but doubt they will make that date.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1500772038' post='3340119'] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Ergodyne-EBD550-4-string-Bass-Walnut-finish-collection-only-S-Cambs/182671611758 (But be cautious if there are cracks around the lower horn...) [/quote] Those cracks put me right off. I bought one of these a few years ago, in goldfish orange. Sadly when it arrived the body had snapped clean in half. 😣

Proud new owner of Tony's Boss LS2. I have no idea how to use it yet. Anyway, great chap to deal with, no probs whatsoever. Cheers!

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1501061606' post='3342116'] Andertons are offering the new thunderbird on pre order at £499 [url="https://www.andertons.co.uk/p/EBTVTSNH1/electric-basses/epiphone-thunderbird-vintage-pro-bass-in-vintage-sunburst"]https://www.anderton...intage-sunburst[/url] [/quote] August! So, so tempted to order one...

[quote name='goingdownslow' timestamp='1500912191' post='3341034'] On checking the dealer network my local outlet is Dawsons. An enquiry to Dawsons returned this... I remember back when I was trying to get an Epi Elitist EB3 and a lot of dealers had never heard of them. I found the UK distibutor at the time were Rossetti and a call to them said they only got 4 and were getting no more. The dealers who they sent them to had sold them but I ended up managing to get one from Music 123 in the USA. Does anyone know who is the Epiphone/Gibson UK distributor. Does anyone know of any dealers hoping to get any in. Also my experience of getting a shop to order one has usually been at full retail price. I know it is early days yet. [/quote] That's a bit worrying... Hopefully they will be a bit more common than the Elitists - I think they are replacing the current Thunderbird Pro, and they're everywhere ☺

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1500610804' post='3339050'] 1951 early 2000s MIJ Fender reissue Precision. Blue [/quote] I wish mine was like that. Mine's got a whopping great hole underneath the scratchplate.

BC Rich Wave. And a fantastic bargain! If only it wasn't so far away...