Anyone else not like Ricks?

[CBRStingray]

I've never played one and I've never wanted to. The looks turn me off entirely. I couldn't stand to have to look at one every time I played.

 

[bobstefntes]

Dispelling a few myths: There are Ricks with bolt on necks, but if you like a P-bass neck, buy a p-bass. New Ricks can be gotten for around $1300, but you can find used ones on evilbay cheaper. The necks on Ricks are not flimsy or toylike, they are much stronger than the neck on a P-bass. You can get fat ass bottom end out of a Rick, my stock 74' will take me from the Beatles to Black Sabbath, no problem. Rickenbacker will not, as you say, get into the new millennium, John Hall is perfectly happy with the 2 year backlog they have going right now. Hell, he won't even address the tailpiece lift problem, because people are buying them regardless.(I hear Hipshots are a great solution). You can remove the pup cover without leaving a great, bloody hole. Pickguardian makes a plexi-cover which looks pretty sharp. Personally, when I put a pup cover on mine it caused me none of the anguish so many others complain about.
Bottom line folks, to each their own. I have a Carvin LB76, which I play a whole Fkin lot, and there is still a need to bring the 4001 along. In fact, I'm jammin a party tomorrow, and will be dragging the two aforementioned basses, as well as my Carvin full stack, and my Peavey half stack(Ric-o-sound) along with me.


My opinion: My first real bass was a 70s P, which 5 months later I traded, along with some cash and a cry baby, for my 4001. This was around 1984 and I have no regrets.

 

[DeanT]

And I can't help thinking that without guys like Lemy they wouldn't be nearly as popular.

Not to mention Chris Squire of Yes.

I happen to think that Rics are the sexiest basses out there. They put out some pretty mean tones as well. I've been gassing for on for like the past 30 years. Don't ask me why I just haven't gone out and bought one already.

 

[TheJimster]

They have a pretty nice vintage look.
It's hard to get used to the ric for me seeing as how I always rest my thumb on a p'up and obviously this is no easy task on a ric.
But I will admit a new ric can deliver some mean tones.

 

[Eric Killinger]

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[Sneckumhaw]

Or maybe your cousin has the wrong precisoin

No. His neck is thick. Mine is just thicker. The newer ones and the 4001s are thin, mine's from a couple years ago. Chunky and fantastic.

 

[Sneckumhaw]

The real reason that I hold hate for ricks are not because of thier looks, sound, or feel, it is that, to me, they represent a time capsule of bygone days in music. To me, the point of being a musician is to expand and create beyond the bounds of what is the current standard. That, as I understand, is the momentum beyond all great musicians. Did Beethoven use the same piano as Bach?

No, Bach played organ

I have to respectfully say this argument makes no sense to me. To move music forward one does not need new or new looking tools.

 

[Jim Powers]

I like my '92 4003 a lot. It can sound however you want it to between bass and amp tone shaping, but there are few basses that have the band-cutting attack of a RIC bridge pup with tone on treble; I flip to it for solos. The one piece through-neck has a lot of advantage in the solid sustain of string vibration, however, it does take some getting used to the two truss rod adjustments to ensure you don't create resonance dead spots on the neck, between the rod tension and neck torsion that can be created. Neck width and finish are fine for me. I like the bridge pup cover; I can place my hand firmly and push the bass around from that point. I bought the Pickguardian mirror pup-surround but haven't decided to put it on yet.
Also like my twin ampeg combos I'm driving with the RIC. Someone wrote on another thread that you turn-em up and stand back, which is right. You can stand back, and back, and back; the sound carrys well even outside.

 

[bobstefntes]

Ric necks are all at least 3 pieces. I'm just saying.

 

[BellBottomBlues]

You can not like them, but saying they're flimsy is ****ing stupid. The build quality is top notch and mine has taken quite a bit of abuse like a champ. Personally I think they look badass.

If you learned to read, I never said that they were flimsy, I said I felt like I was holding a toy, and that the bass' neck was made for a kid. I happen to have huge hands and I kept feeling like I was going to break it by accident, due to how skinny it was.

By the way, the Rics I've played are a 78 and a few more vintage. I only remember the 78 because thats the one that is still at the store. The neck profile is way too skinny.

 

[Baryonyx]

I go through periods of love and indifference, but usually I love them!