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Rickenbacker 'getting outed'

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Whatever, he's welcome to his opinion. The silliest thing I ever did was to sell my old 77 4001. In the three years I owned it, I strung it and set it up once and only once, with TI Jazz flats. It once took a fall that would have ruined a lesser instrument, and was barely even out of tune. I never had to adjust the truss rods, and I'm finicky as heck out action height, too. I hope more people hate those basses so the price goes down and I can pick up another one for cheaper than they go for right now. In the meantime, I'll just have to struggle on by with my Jetglo 4004L.
 
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Kriegs said:
Sorry if this has been posted before ... but this guys has some opinions :roflmao:
(please note I don't share them, I just found this hilarious)
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Well, I was 24 in 1974 when I bought mine, not because of Glover, but a few others that were playing them. Yep, I paid a little more tha $700 bucks with a case. Absolutely, I was told to play only Rickenbacker strings or plan on a fret job in the very near future, and those suckers were expensive and didn’t hold up worth a crap.

But anyway I was off and running and wondering why I wasn’t getting the sound I thought I should have been getting out of it. Well, two things. I moved and where I lived there was nobody within 200 miles carried Rickenbacker strings, so I ended up buy a set of GHS Bass Boomers. Major improvement in sound. The second was “Rick-O-Sound”, yep bi-amping. I got tell you all, that rocked big time. It was a huge voice perfect for a power trio.

I managed to hang on to that bass until about 2008, and never did have an issue with it. It was set up well when I bought it. Never needed to mess with the truss rod or setting the intonation. The only issue was a wad of lint ended up in the the pick up selector toggle switch ( and this dude was railing on the engineers for the tail piece, you should see that monstrosity) that was hung up on the contact points.

Thanks for posting the video.
 
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Mvilmany said:
This is exactly what I do, but I use DuckDuckGo instead of google, just to help minimize the amount of information that creepy Google collects about me.
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Meh, I search for C once a day and pick nothing, then I search C# a few times a day and randomly pick a page and a result, I'm pretty sure they think I'm kinesthetic with an OCD around that note, and a weird fetish for the programming language bearing the same name. ;)
 
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A-Step-Towards said:
Never got the love for this guy, I see him as A hack and A boring one at that.
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I agree. A one-trick pony who has had the begging hand out a wee bit too much in the last videos I wanted. Has a Patreon account so we can pay him for making the same video repeatedly. The guy works in media but has no concept of brevity. Instead we get 12 minute videos of him setting up some ‘gooched’ Samick acoustic guitar, and this is only the first of three instalments... oh boy.
 
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I'm entertained by this video because the tech at GC cried like a baby when I asked him to fix up mine. Dave did admit it has "mystical tone" so whatever they did, that's what you got. I also loved the feel of the neck on my 1977 4001, which I paid 600 for when I was 17. I traded it in a year ago for 1300 and they sold it for 2100.
 
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