Fender Jazz and Rickenbacker have one night stand...

[TPTroll]

...and produce one fugly baby...

[url="http://www.probass.co.uk/Vantage4.html"]http://www.probass.co.uk/Vantage4.html[/url]

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[discreet]

Not my cup of tea, but I'm not into Rics [i]or [/i]Jazzes, so...

[risingson]

Not terrible (although not my thing at all), and actually incredibly affordable really. I have no idea about the brand though.

[icastle]

I've never really liked the Ricky style so aesthetically this does nothing for me.
Plenty of people do though.

[Gust0o]

Bindun.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/169875-retrovibe-vantage/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/169875-retrovibe-vantage/[/url]

[joeystrange]

I kinda like it. Looks more like a Ric and a Mosrite to me though.

[clarkpegasus4001]

Strangly enough, I own an old Rick and Jazz. Don't look too hot welded together though do they? There seems to be a lot of Rick haters on this site, I can't understand why?

[4000]

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1331052375' post='1566905']
Don't look too hot welded together though do they? There seems to be a lot of Rick haters on this site, I can't understand why?
[/quote]

No they don't.

Same reason some people hate anything that isn't their preference I guess; "I don't like it so it's crap". Of course they are a bit marmite, possibly more so than many.

Edited March 6, 2012 by 4000

[TPTroll]

I really liked the RV4 and think rickenbacker are ridiculous not to have a budget brand, but this is definitely a marmite bass. Falls under the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" category.

[Oopsdabassist]

I kinda like it, always loved the ric..thanks to Chris Squire...until I played one..ugh! This however has a certain something......Would I buy one? not at the moment, got my new EB3 to play with

[icastle]

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1331052375' post='1566905']
Strangly enough, I own an old Rick and Jazz. Don't look too hot welded together though do they? There seems to be a lot of Rick haters on this site, I can't understand why?
[/quote]

I find them 'visually disturbing' and don't really have a practical use for the typical sound they produce.
I certainly don't hate them, it's just not something I can ever see myself owing.

[Dom in Dorset]

I like the look of the body (presuming as it looks to me that it's slightly more squashed/elongated shape than a true Rick) but the neck looks wrong on it, a more Rickesque neck and headstock would have been better

[clarkpegasus4001]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331054488' post='1566953']
I certainly don't hate them, it's just not something I can ever see myself owing.
[/quote]
That's fair enough, each to thier own I say. funnily enough, i've been playing on the Jazz today, I am struggling a bit with the neck! It seems fat compared to the Rick.

[KevB]

Could be worse. They might have modelled it on a Warwick or something.

[Gust0o]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1331055016' post='1566963']
Could be worse. They might have modelled it on a Warwick or something.
[/quote]

That would have upped the price.

[discreet]

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1331052375' post='1566905']
There seems to be a lot of Rick haters on this site...
[/quote]

I don't hate 'em, I'm just not into 'em.

[Musky]

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1331054887' post='1566960']
I like the look of the body (presuming as it looks to me that it's slightly more squashed/elongated shape than a true Rick) but the neck looks wrong on it, a more Rickesque neck and headstock would have been better
[/quote]
They've been there and done that. I think Mr. Hall probably had a word in their ear - hence this.

Can't help but feel that maybe a Fenderbird inspired design might have been better...

[Lfalex v1.1]

Now, you see, I always thought the b*stard offspring of a Rick and Jazz looked a bit like this;
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/Evilex1/P1000887.jpg

And hasn't the new RetroVibe got a bit of Musicman DNA in it? Was it a Menage a trois? and did they get much (french) housework done?

Edited March 6, 2012 by Lfalex v1.1

[clarkpegasus4001]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1331057242' post='1567000']
I don't hate 'em, I'm just not into 'em.
[/quote]

I meant in general on this site, not necessarily on this thread.

[paul_5]

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1331054390' post='1566951']
I kinda like it, always loved the ric..thanks to Chris Squire...until I played one..ugh!
[/quote]

Ditto, I borrowed a '75 fireglow 4001 from a mate at work to record a 4 minute track on an old band's EP. Sounded incredible through the Ampeg stack I was rocking at the time, but i less playable instrument I have yet to find. Couldn't get more than 3 bars in without f***ing everything up.
Beautiful, sexy, horrific instrument.

[discreet]

[quote name='clarkpegasus4001' timestamp='1331078608' post='1567474']
I meant in general on this site, not necessarily on this thread.
[/quote]

Heh. You know apparently, there's a special forum [i]just [/i]for Rickenbackers...

[icastle]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1331080842' post='1567499']
Heh. You know apparently, there's a special forum [i]just [/i]for Rickenbackers...
[/quote]

[url="."]www.everyonehatesmecosihavealumpybodyandineedafriend.com[/url] ?

[clarkpegasus4001]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331084801' post='1567521']
www.everyonehatesmecosihavealumpybodyandineedafriend.com ?
[/quote]

Tut tut!