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Rickenbacker 3001


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[quote name='Pookus' post='383412' date='Jan 17 2009, 05:36 PM']Mmmmm lovely!! Anyone got one? Pros and cons?
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I used to have the related short-scale 3000 and - during my researches on the bass - discovered that the 3001 was (supposedly) aimed at the P-bass and has a similar thumping sound rather than the Ricky clang on the 4000 range. Its also very heavy, according to reviews I read. Come up very rarely on eBay (like one a year) and very trendy as the Arctic Monkeys guy plays one, while Mani of Stone Roses/Primal Scream plays the 3000. Think they made them from about the late 1970s and stopped making them in the early/mid 1980s.

Rickresource.com always has tons of info on anything Rick-related

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My first Bass was a 3001.
It cost me £220 way back in 1984... used, but pretty much 'mint'.

I gigged it for about 6 years, mainly in a blues band.
Amazingly deep and very loud.

The downside was 'neck dive' and overall weight.... But what an incredible sound!

I sold it a few years ago for £450.... and now regret it.

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