Recent content by LostJohnny

I have joined the Carlo Robelli club for the low price of $0! The other day, I was walking around my neighborhood with a friend, and we went down a street I don't usually walk on, and one house had a bunch of stuff sitting in front of it, including an electric bass! I looked very carefully for...

Hi all! I know I don't check back in often, but here's a photo of me playing my 4003W with my band Burn Together last night! The Rick always serves me well (even if I do look like I'm wondering what that smell is).

In all fairness, a lot of people don't have the owner's manual. If you go to a rehearsal space or a venue and find an amp, the owner's manual is never going to be there with it, and "Wait! I must find, download, and study the manual!" is not going to be most people's first priority. Also...

This might be it exactly. I haven't played through a Markbass much, but I remember that when I did, I scorned the VLE and VPF as "please muddy up my tone" knobs.

The output jack on my Epi Thunderbird 60's had become a little loose, so I opened up the backplate to tighten the jack (and put a little threadlocker on it for good measure). That was easy enough and no trouble. But what odd thing did I discover while I was doing this? The screws for the...

Played my 4003W at a gig last Friday! Used my Way Huge Pork Loin and a GK 1001; had a real clanky, grindy tone, which was just what I was going for.

I ran across these pictures while searching for something else. Anybody recognize this model of bass? I'm thinking a 4000, but what model exactly? It doesn't look like a "standard" 4000, if there is such a thing.

Had my best game ever of Elvira "Scared Stiff" last night. Hardly a world-beating score - I didn't even make it on the leaderboard - but it's nice when you just casually decide to play and end up having one of those strangely effortless games.

Ran across this the other day, thought it was pretty cool. Unknown player, USA mid 1960s. Imagine being the guy in the high school band who had this! From

I wanted to say thank you for giving me the confidence to do this! I've done some minor adjustments on other instruments I own, but I was a little intimidated by the Ric (dual truss rods? and it's the single most expensive instrument I own). But I read up on it, and raised the bridge a touch...

Got this '17 4003W in a trade the other day. It's noticeably lighter than my old Jetglo 4003 (which was an '05, I think) and I really like the feel of the neck. The action is super low, though. Anybody know a good tech for Rickenbacker setups in NYC?

Yes, please! It was actually listed as "used/excellent", but I would call it "used/mint", and honestly if it had been sold to me as a new instrument I wouldn't have questioned it. As you can see, the plastics are still on the pickguard and pickups, and the only marks on it are two very slight...

I already had a sunburst Thunderbird, but I always kind of craved a white one, and they seem to be one of the rarer "standard" colors, so when I had a little extra money and one popped up on the market, how could I say no? There's just something very classic about a white Tbird, IMO...

Not mine, just reposting for the community: a PJ-555 for sale for a good price, somewhat dinged up and with the usual round of hardware changes that most 555s seem to have gone through: ht tps://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2023236141372125/

My wife was a huge Kids in the Hall fan, so we've been rewatching all of the old episodes, and we actually got about halfway through the second season before I realized that the theme, "Having An Average Weekend", by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, features Thunderbird content! It's a...