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Just got a rick, any suggestions?
- Thread starter Morosini
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Fair enough. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it too. I mean that’s the stereotype anyway.
No sign of the OP, he must be playing his bass. 
Which reminds me: he's right -- I am running out of time.
Which reminds me: he's right -- I am running out of time.
Fair enough. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it too. I mean that’s the stereotype anyway.
Get off my lawn you young whipper snapper!!!
I had a 78 4001 fretless... Night and day difference when setting the intonation.
I had a 72 4001FL and sold it when times got rough, got an 85 4003FL now though. I never had any trouble with the bridges though, just loosen the string before you turn the little screw with a small straight screwdriver, once it's set forget it.
1955 was a very good year, as it's also the year I was born. Growing up in the SF Bay Area, my dad would take me to Giants games when they played the Dodgers cuz I was a Dodgers fan. I never understood until later how brave (and stupid) that was, on both our parts.(I was born in 1955...the year the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series.). ✌️
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I'm not old; I'm retro.
Okay, y'all made me do it. Everyone posting pics of their Rics reminded me that I had some of my own in a box somewhere. (Apparently the boomer brain cells that contain the location of said pics and the ability to operate a scanner are still functioning. And in case anyone is wondering; yes, the world was indeed in black & white in 1978. 
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I love it, good for you! Man, bass needs BIG and that is why I miss those big tube monsters I used to play through. I never used the ric-o-sound properly so shame on me. Incidentally, I sold that beautiful Azureglo '78 for $300 to a music store because I needed an analog synthesizer-- a Korg Poly-800. Sorry for the side track!Actually- for most of my gigs I used the Ric-O-Sound stereo output- ran the neck pu thru the 4x15 Peaveys & the bridge pu thru a Sunn head & 2x15 cab. Everything was big back then!
Okay, y'all made me do it. Everyone posting pics of their Rics reminded me that I had some of my own in a box somewhere. (Apparently the boomer brain cells that contain the location of said pics and the ability to operate a scanner are still functioning. And in case anyone is wondering; yes, the world was indeed in black & white in 1978.
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Beautiful Ric!
I’m digging the bell bottoms, red!
I was an outlier.
I went with the boot cut. ✌
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Take off the old bridge and route in an original Badass bridge and don't forget the Schaller tuners as well.
Yo, red...
got a minute to think about/type about the tone/presence of those ‘fibes’ clear, plastic shells?
Was he/she a good drummer?
got a minute to think about/type about the tone/presence of those ‘fibes’ clear, plastic shells?
Was he/she a good drummer?
Correct, I’m having blast on the thing! Also admiring the boomers in here, great suggestions overall.No sign of the OP, he must be playing his bass.
Which reminds me: he's right -- I am running out of time.
Reminder that in US Navy slang, a Boomer is a ballistic missile submarine.
Now how about that Rick!?
Now how about that Rick!?
He was (and is) a killer drummer. A great player and a great guy. I think the Fibes were what Billy Cobham was playing at the time, and this drummer was a huge fusion & prog rock fan. He turned me on to a lot of music that might have otherwise escaped my notice, including Dixie Dregs, Yellow Jackets, Gino Vannelli, Brand X, etc. He and I both understood the importance of locking in together, and spent time crafting our parts to produce a solid rhythm section. We're still in touch, but we don't get to play together as much these days. Life and all.
The Fibes were interesting and appropriate to the time during which he used them, but I think he ultimately went to a smaller kit with wood shells that (I thought) sounded better; more focused. The Fibes had a huge frequency response, (if you can believe that about drums) and were sometimes hard to rein in at smaller venues. Between the drums and the bass, we kinda dominated, but we had a guitar player that knew how to work with that. Killer power trio.
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Depends on your orientation. Not in the orient, the Philippines, South East Asia, etc. The list goes on and on. In those cultures, they venerate their so-called senior citizens and comprehend as a paradigm that with age, comes wisdom. In many countries, for example, young women will marry a man way older then they are in a heart beat and consider themselves lucky to get such a "good catch". So will their girl friends who will be envious of their good fortune. You should be so lucky.
I wonder when we are going to figure out that the "generation gap" as we know it is solely a product of Madison Avenue. The intention (which obviously works very well) is to get certain groups, subcultures, etc., to identify with certain products by excluding others from the identification so as to create a more zealous desire to purchase said products on the part of members of said groups, subcultures, etc. Music in particular has been marketed this way beginning from the Post WWII era. For a good example of how this works, watch the 50's era motion picture, "Rock Around The Clock", about Bill Haley and his Comets and their rise to fame. Of course, the old folks were right about the Rock and Roll which was highly suggestive, and designed to exploit the boiling sexuality of the "teenage" generation. Which it did, thanks to mom and dad's car.
The generation gap has been going on for so long now that entire generations accept it as a naturally occurring circumstance, and even proselytize the idea as if things have always been that way. In fact, generation gaps are just all about the money, and are far from universal in this world. They are components of gorilla advertising and encompass, among other things, brand image, brand identity and brand identification which are cornerstones of modern marketing.
When my business partner and I had the sound company, one of our bread and butter accounts was a place called the Starlight Ballroom in San Jose, California. Every Sunday afternoon they had a festival of sorts featuring live music, dancing and food. Five hundred to a thousand people of Hispanic origin would show up without fail including infants and toddlers, kids, teenagers, young married couples, middle aged married couples and their progenitors who were old as dirt. Everybody would eat, dance and party together sharing the festive atmosphere with each other. A good time was had by all. Oh, and did I mention they were all listening and dancing to the same music? After working a few of those shows, the generation gap seemed by compassion rather passé. It's a crying shame, really.
