show ZONS, show LAKLANDS, show PRECISIONS....here's the chow RICS thread. sorry the bad pics, but take alook to my january '80 mapleglo rick 4001. simply the best!
I've replaced the pickguard since this pic was taken, but this is what my $350 pawn shop Azureglo prize looked like when she came to live with me (she's a 1981 4001):
My 4003. I forgot the year but I think it's an '85. <img src="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1174383&a=8647027&p=47848260&Sequence=0&res=high" width=450"> '92 MapleGlow 4003 (sold) <img src="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1174383&a=11627687&p=49025019&Sequence=1&res=high"> 86 Burgungy 4003 (sold) Nino w/long hair. WOW. I think that is the only picture I have w/my hair out. I always used to keep it in a pony tail. Now I'm a psycho baldie. <img src="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1174383&a=11627687&p=41238657&Sequence=0&res=high">
You guys are KILLING ME!!!! I`ve had serious GAS for the rics for a long time.Next big bass purchase will have to be a ric.Love the look,love the sound even more.Only get to play on them when I see the odd one in GC. Funkycarnivore,is that color autum glow?It`s super cool! Barroso,you are a man after my own heart! You know good basses(P`s and rics) That goes for you to funkster! You are a man after my own amp heart!I dig ampeg too. JT,too bad you never play those bad boyz no mo! The 4001 can only be strung w/ flats or....? Is the double neck a guitar/bass combo?Man that must come with a nice hernia truss!lol Killer basses all youse guys! p.s. Nino please remain a psycho bald head!
Ah, my goal is clear, Travel back in time to the mid 80's and buy a Rickenbacker bass for ~300 so I don't have to loby my parents to let me spend the $1000 they cost now adays (My mom maintains that its insane for any musical instrument to cost more then $300-$500.. *sigh*)