Speaking of Rics, am I to conclude from your new avatar that you flipped yours??
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R.I.P. 4004 Series basses
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Speaking of Rics, am I to conclude from your new avatar that you flipped yours??
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
(Or you could just do the add-ones,like Jeff Rath did to one his.....)
If I'm paying that kind of money, I shouldn't have to add any stickers
They are really great Basses. I owned one and it was very cool but it had the worst neck of any bass I’ve ever played. IT WAS YUUUUGE!
Is that right? The necks on the specimens in this thread all look fairly svelte. But then I guess Ric changes up the neck profile on the pieces quite a bit from year to year.
Yeah it could have been a bad year for the necks or something but it was uncomfortable to play it was so big.
Or the BEST neck!
they do vary,the 5 i have are quite nice,although one is considerably chunkier than the others.
I always figured it was a Catch-22 kind of thing. Ric didn't make many because nobody ordered them, and nobody ordered them because there weren't enough of them out there to be well known. I'd still like one.
I should have hung on to the two I had.
The MapleGlo had the nicest figuring I'd ever seen on a 4004Cii, and the Transparent Blue one - one of the earliest UV-cured Ciis - had turned a very lovely & even shade of purple.
The MapleGlo had the nicest figuring I'd ever seen on a 4004Cii, and the Transparent Blue one - one of the earliest UV-cured Ciis - had turned a very lovely & even shade of purple.
Traded it in on the lady? No, there's room in my life for both. I did get rid of some other women though...
I would be interested to try one. I love the 4003. I also have never seen one in person.
I found a 4004 in a consignment shop here in town about 10 years ago. It was, if I recall correctly, some god awful green/turquoise colour. I probably could have gotten past the colour, but the bass had a weird "corusey" sound to it that turned me off. I asked the shop owner about the sound, he said he couldn't hear it. That and the asking price for what was obviously a worked hard and put away wet bass was imho far too much.
I would certainly entertain trying one in good standing!
Fishheadjoe
I would certainly entertain trying one in good standing!
Fishheadjoe
Probably have to make room in the production schedule for the new 4003/5. If it flops, maybe they'll bring back the 4004.
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If it was a Rickenbacker factory turquoise,it would’ve been a very rare bird. One of my favorite colors.
And time will tell how popular that model will be. It certainly drew the ire of most pundits online.
I like the look of it,but have no desire to own a 5-string bass of any make.
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