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One of my bucket list meetups at NAMM. Rick Turner probably has as much or more to do with me building onboard preamps and music widgets in general as anyone out there, alive or otherwise.
I finally got to play one of his basses too, which was predictably fabulous:
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photos by @wintremute, who has an epic show pic thread going in the Basses Forum.
Good for you!
I have met with him a couple of times at the two shops he had/has;The one on Fern Drive in Topanga Canyon, and his current shop in Santa Cruz, plus we've spoken on the phone a couple times. I had both his RB4-FL and an RB5-FL, both fretless basses, over the years.
Here is one of my recordings I did with the 5-string.
This one was with the 4-string fretless Rick Turner bass. I also wrote this song and played the acoustic guitar on the right channel - my old Larrivée LV-19 Special Vine Edition (a very rare guitar, less than a handful were ever made, according to Larrivée).
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Which reminds me, Pat Boone was in Goodbye Charlie 
I called them my anti-gravity basses. Except for the severe neck dive they both "featured". I assume your fretting hand was doing a bit more than just fretting the strings? Both of mine required the RT Dingus, and even with them, there still was some neckdive. Playing them sitting down was worse, yet, IIRC.
No, what you are desribing is ambisinster.
That would be an Hawaiian proctologist.Himalaya? Isn't that a guy who sets bricks?
One of my bucket list meetups at NAMM. Rick Turner probably has as much or more to do with me building onboard preamps and music widgets in general as anyone out there, alive or otherwise.
I finally got to play one of his basses too, which was predictably fabulous:
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photos by @wintremute, who has an epic show pic thread going in the Basses Forum.
Good for you!
I have met with him a couple of times at the two shops he had/has;The one on Fern Drive in Topanga Canyon, and his current shop in Santa Cruz, plus we've spoken on the phone a couple times. I had both his RB4-FL and an RB5-FL, both fretless basses, over the years.
Here is one of my recordings I did with the 5-string.
This one was with the 4-string fretless Rick Turner bass. I also wrote this song and played the acoustic guitar on the right channel - my old Larrivée LV-19 Special Vine Edition (a very rare guitar, less than a handful were ever made, according to Larrivée).
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The bass was killer, but I actually wish I had tried one of the semi-hollow guitars, since I'm well covered on basses already. Rick also had a new Strat-ish solid body guitar with pickups that supposedly split the difference between single coil Strat and the P-90 thing.
Those are different race, not hu-mon. Although, most times in public restrooms I feel like I am glad I am not like them.
