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Usually when I hear Ric Sound in conversations it means the mid 70s Progressive Rock a la Squire and Lee and I can jump right into the conversation knowing that without clarification that they arent referring to Glenn Hughes, McCartney, Paul Goddard, Pete Quaife, Klaatu, 10CC, Rick James, etc...

If you are playing the blues with a rulebook, you arent playing the blues This band sounds Un-Fun just reading the OPs post

Usually in conversations, folks refer to the Ric Sound, or any bass really, for the popular signature thing they are widely noted for. So, when they say Ric Sound, I already have a good idea of what they are talking about without having to mention the other sounds it makes such as the warm...

Here is a side-by-side comparison of a T-40 and a Jazz on a Prog Rock project Im doing....The first half is a T-40 recorded direct and played with a pick....the second half is a Jazz bass dual tracked clean and a dirty mixed to taste....I thought the T-40 was very Ric like....lug above basically...

Wow! thank you all for such a great discussion. i dont really need to answer any of the rebuttals to my posts either because everybody is making such great points but ill address a couple just for the sake of discussion but know that i do think what youre saying is certainly valid. a lot of...

To a certain extent, you can say the same thing about guitar solos: they aren't anywhere near as prevalent in music as they were 20-30 years ago. the Guitar Hero game is predominately 70s and 80s rock songs. however, even in 2017, a guitar player playing live with a bag o' tricks eddie van...

i never thought about that

interesting thread. thanks for the link. one thing i noticed reading it was that some of the people responding were talking from their point-of-view as a fact. one person said 'I'm pretty sick of the bippidy-bippity-bap-bap-bippidy-bippity-bap-bap at 90 miles an hour when someone is demoing an...

i only do a few here and there. our band throws the spotlight all around the stage. its just an old-school style top 40 band with guitar, bass, keys, sax all getting features throughout the night. kinda like a fusion band approach. a lot of times, the covers that we pick are too short so we...

I was having a discussion with another musician the other guy was an old school rock guitar player that believes that the entire musical universe revolves around the guitar. his attitude is the audiences in general, but lets just say the 40 and above crowd in particular, like the guitar god...