Well, my family and I moved across country from New York state to Portland, OR early in 2010. We left all of our possessions, aside from clothes and a few essentials, in a storage unit back in NY.
Found out yesterday that because of the recent hurricane, some rivers overran their banks and our storage facility flooded.
Not sure what the damage is to the things in our unit yet. The owners are going to cut the locks and survey the destruction today or tomorrow. All my music gear except what I've bought since relocating is out there. Family keepsakes, photo albums, my music CD, DVD and book collections are out there, all my wife's and kids' stuff...we don't know how bad it is yet.
So now I need to come up with as much $$$ as possible as quickly as possible to get our stuff out here and see what is salvageable. I may well be selling everything I have of value aside from my vehicles (which aren't worth anything anyway.)
Oh well, it's just "stuff." at least we didn't lose a house or have a loved one killed. Many people out that way did. We got lucky. Here goes:
This bass is in great shape. Epiphone reissued the Ripper bass in the late 90s for a couple of years. Those original reissues had a single pickup which I think is the same one Epi uses on their Thunderbird basses. Then, from 2006-2008 they reissued the Ripper again with a P/J pickup configuration.
No longer in production, the L.E. Ripper is quite a different animal from the original Gibson Rippers. Bolt-on neck, different pickups, but it is a great bass in its own right.
This bass is really fat-sounding and has a great low end but also good definition; not muddy. Good P/J tonal variety. Sounds fatter than a lot of P/J basses, I think because the pickups are a little closer to the neck than they are on Fenders and Fender-style basses.
Most of these were natural finished. The black is more rare. I believe the body is maple, which mitigates the low end with some brightness.
Very cool instrument, solid as a rock and not something you see every day. A nice change of pace from the ocean of Ps and
Js out there.
I am not really interested in trades at this time, and would prefer to find a local seller (Portland, Oregon area.)
Asking $325--you pay shipping. Will entertain offers. If someone anywhere near Portland is interested, I could meet up with you somewhere and maybe work out a deal for you. Thanks for looking!
PS-- I do NOT use PayPal. Sorry.
