...because I have discovered my Ric responds so well to the feel of a pick!

Seriously, I've always been a hard-core finger player, so this is kinda like discovering my wife is really my long-lost sister!

You so bad!!


Hey man - if your comfortable with it, and like the sound. There haven't been any laws broken. Joe Osborn played (and still does) with a pick his entire career.

As far as discovering your wife is a long lost sister?
Well - lets hope not.

i have heard the sound of a ric played with pick... it´s pretty cool!

i would do the same if had one ;)
just don´t tell everybody

sometimes theres just no way to get that sound without a pick so you kinda hafta use one, besides its not like the bass police are going to throw you in the back of a van and beat you up for it

here's an oldie but a goodie. a couple of years ago, this guy named conrad standish posted to the bottom line (TBL) about going into a music store and playing a rickenbacker bass they had without a pick - the store employees gave hims some measure of hard time about it, for some reason, so he asked the list if anybody else didn't pick their rics, so to speak. i wrote this to make him feel better (think dr. seuss)



The Ric with no Pick

On a bright sunny day, a few months before May
To the guitarshop, good Conrad, there's a bass you must play

Among the cymbals that ring, and the keyboards that sing
Behind the various nefarious skinny stringed things

A burgandy glow leads those in the know
To a princess of basses, a queen of notes low

With her curves and her chrome, she begs for a new home
With promises of music on nights all alone

"Good sir" Conrad asks, all politeness and care
"May I play that red bass, the Sweet Ric over there?"

The sales dude nods as he answers the call
And gets the red bass gently off of the wall

With an amp and a chord and the bass in demand
He then offers a plectrum in his outstretched hand

With a smile and shrug and a sly wink of his eye
Conrad declines the kind offer and lets his fingers fly

The sales dude's mouth moves but he can't say a thing
As Conrad makes music with just fingers and strings

He finally can speak and he turns to the door
He shouts and he pouts - he can't take anymore

"Hey Jerry Hey Nick I'm gonna be sick
He's playing that Ric, and he don't got a pick"

Other sales dudes gather at the un-heard-of noise
Of the Ric being played with no finger toys

"It's plinking and plucking, it's growling and clucking
It sounds like a duck in a truck who is ...trucking"

As they listened in fear, they started to hear
the sweet real sound of the bass ringing clear

Their smiles grew wide, they drooled starry eyed
As the growl of the Ric could not be denied

Then entered a cat, with a tall stripey hat
Who said, loud and rude, "We'll have none of that"

"This rhyming must stop, someone must call the cops
I will end this my self with a few careful 'chops'"

So from then on all the sales dudes told
of the bass on the wall that will never be sold

Because this guy came in once and played with no pick
on this princess of basses, the sweet burgandy Ric

:D

Ok
who ever wrote that has no life whatsoever. just imagne how board one would have to be.....

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ok
who ever wrote that has no life whatsoever. just imagne how board one would have to be.....

:rolleyes:

that would be "bored", and believe it or not, that would be me.

for having no life, i sure have fun :D.

MY GOD THAT WAS QUICK, i just wrote that and five seconds later you post to it. holy crap. you sure are a hawk on this thing arnt ya?;) And forgive me for misspelling that word, i ask forgiveness from the spell check gods! PLEASE!!?!?

Whoa, Turner, not only do you have great basses, but also great literary sense. Bravo!

Originally posted by BASSnSAX
Whoa, Turner, not only do you have great basses, but also great literary sense. Bravo!

why thank you. i can also cook a bitchin quiche. :D

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ok
who ever wrote that has no life whatsoever. just imagne how board one would have to be.....

Actually as John says - this is what life is all about - having fun without "dumbing down" or checking your brain at the door! :rolleyes:

I pity the people who seem to think the only fun in life is to be had by "getting out of your head" - in other words - how stupid can I be! They're missing so much of the rich tapestry that is life! :D

Some people like John are adding to this and others are just peering through the blur..... wazzat?

LMAO

Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield


Actually as John says - this is what life is all about - having fun without "dumbing down" or checking your brain at the door! :rolleyes:

I pity the people who seem to think the only fun in life is to be had by "getting out of your head" - in other words - how stupid can I be! They're missing so much of the rich tapestry that is life! :D

Some people like John are adding to this and others are just peering through the blur..... wazzat?

thanks bruce. that's quite the compliment :)

Originally posted by john turner


why thank you. i can also cook a bitchin quiche. :D

I'd rather quiche a bitchin' cook. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...why, soitenley!

John, I just noticed there's TWO threads with this title active at the moment. Can you change this thread's title to something else?

That was great. I was super impressed when I heard JT's MP3 that is linked in his signature (wow!) and now this amazing display of genius...where did that John Turner worship thread go - what a well rounded expressive indavidual - as far as having no life...I have no life and I don't come up with stuff anything like JT does, I think he must have a very full life!

:D thanks

WHOA, to much butt kissing im going to be sick!!!:eek:

Originally posted by PollyBass
WHOA, to much butt kissing im going to be sick!!!:eek:

I'm already sick.

Great stuff John -- Do I detect a strong influence from Dr. Suess?

Originally posted by sicplayer


I'm already sick.

Ha, 'sicplayer', 'sick'.....

Haha... I swear...

Originally posted by lowtones


Ha, 'sicplayer', 'sick'.....

Haha... I swear...

:(

My name is just a big typo!

i play with a pick, with my fingers (learning to use all of them at once in addition to just the "walking" pattern) and i slap. sometimes i use all 3 in one song.
it all depends on the sound you want. i play so much variety that it really only kills the field i have to play in by limiting myself to one specific way of playing. i think that sounds ok.
in other words, i have lots of options of how i want each song to sound by being able to play with a pick with fingers, or with slap. by disallowing myself one or two of those forms, then i'm left with fewer ways to express myself through bass.
something like that.

You should try playing with your fingernails, gives you a much clearer tone than a plectrum could ever give you.

It hurts alot though.

My word, dude, that's gotta be the coolest bass-related poem/story that I've ever heard! You should write a book or something....

John - that was really great!

Its funny how the people with the least amount of skill are usually the first to have a stupid comment - quickly revealing what they are made of.
:)

Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others. but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others.

wow, well those i'd LOVE to hear. care to share?

but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

i love you.

you love me.

we're a big fat family.

oh, and btw, shakespeare, you spelled fieldy's name wrong in your profile. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others. but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

let me make one thing clear, pinhead, 'free speech' doesn't exist here. Talkbass is not a democracy, it's owned by an individual, and the constitution of the United States does not apply to it.

The only reason I'm letting your post stand is to give an example of what will be deleted in the future.

Fair warning.
"Mr. Mod"

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others. but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

and yet another fine example of what SHOULDNT be posted here at talk bass boys and girls.

btw, if you feel that way about the site, then please feel free to leave, and not come back, heck man, i'd even get the door for ya :D

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others. but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

Some people brag and some people do....?

PS - a "peom" ?!!! And is the "whip of talent" a mystical artifact used in a role playing game? ;)

Hmmm when did even Technique succumb to flamethrowers :( Foolish Pollybass, one day, when you learn how to spell words such as "poem", "Fieldy" (Correctly spelled FiElDy I believe) and other one and two syllable words, you can move on to bigger words like, jack-ass (notice the hyphon?) and insolent (which is of course 3 syllables) maybe then you can come back and amaze us all. Speaking of no life, how hard up for conversation to you have to be to come into a thread and just bash on people since you obbiously have absolutly no interest in the topic at all. Go back to Off Topic and cry about it for a while until you're a big boy and are ready to come back and play.

Edit: Oh sorry if this needs to be deleted, I think I almost sunk to his level :( but It needed to be said. When do Mod's get corperal punishment rights? :D

Originally posted by PollyBass
Ouch.... your kidding right? "What a brilliant mind for writing such a long a stupid peom". If your talking about the abilitly to write stuff, ive been writing lyrics for all of my bands as well as some others. but you are right. When it comes to writing long, pointless, stupid peoms i dont have a whip of talent. Well, this is probly just going to get deleted by mister mod, but i dont care. Let him take free speach away. This place is seeming more like "Barney and friends" every day....

:rolleyes:

Uhhhhhh oh yeah, there was a topic to this post ;)

Anyway, the reason that I actually went to respond was to say that Chris Squire is a great example of some interesting picking techniques on a Ric, but I played a Mapleglo one in a music store with my fingers and started playing "The Fish" (the correct spelling of the real name of the song truely escapes me, but atleast its not the word poem..) with my fingers.. strangly.. the guy recognized the song but said it sounded crappy.. Now if you'll excuse my own self building super ego, that was one of the first songs I learned how to play. I've had it nailed down since I was playing a Squier Affinity P-Bass and IMNeverHO I'm pretty damn good at it. Bah! Play the rick with the pick or with your .....* it still sounds GREAT!

* = Sorry, Dr. Suess got into my brain there :D