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Had a Jet Glow one for a few years and traded it for this. For me, it's much better bass. The Ric was light (and a serious neck diver), but I never got a tone I was always happy with. Always felt odd when I picked it up. Other things sounded and felt better so I moved on and never missed it.
I think of Rics like Strats. They can sound great, but that's not as easy to get to s with a LP or 335 for example. Strats to me just take more work to not sound thin and thin. But it certainly can be done.
That is. Doesn’t mention a case. If if it includes the case, it would be an excellent deal on a very rare bird. Of course GC has no clue and refers to the pickups as Tbird Pluses. Thirty seconds on the internet and they could properly identify it as having the DeColas. That surprises me. That Sac store used to be excellent.
As usual, you stole yours.
I’ve tried many. Just don’t fit. I think I’m too short or my arms are too short or something.
I have a thing for Rickenbackers, messed up that I don't have one. A nerve issue/aggravation prompted me to foolishly trade my 76 4001 for a Fender Precision Plus, which had a narrow neck and was very lightweight. The Fender was actually a good bass, but didn't have the delivery and sound of my old Ric. Didn't have that "thing", and the sound just wasn't remarkable.
Sorry to hear that about the nerve issue- I lost about 20 years of playing due to what I thought was tendonitis in my left elbow, only to eventually find out it was ulnar nerve impingement in my left shoulder causing referred pain in the elbow. It started the fall of 1992 and forced me to leave a band back in 2014, though I was playing bass instead of guitar- chalk it up to rehearsing "Good Times, Bad Times" when I chose to chord all four strings and rake them with the right hand to better play the flurry of descending notes during the guitar solo- later found out that I didn't need to do it. Remember the drummer saying Y"ou should have faked it."
I enjoyed mine working on early Bowie songs like "Moonage Daydream" and "Ziggy Stardust"-
I played Strats for years and that wasn't my experience but then again I preferred to play the neck pickup or neck and middle pickups and using 10 gauge strings-
Over the years I've found that I'm pretty versatile at making poor decisions in any circumstances- but as you said, live and learn-
Back in 2004, I nearly sold ALL of my equipment because of it and I mean I had already talked to a Guitar Salesman about dumping it all on them, even if it were for a lowball price. . Again a bassist friend said "Don't do that! Hold out and see if the discomfort passes." Which I did for though I scarcely played for the next ten years-
Sorry about the abstinence, as it were. But you kept your gear which means you held out hope. That's the way to do it.
One guitar I wish I hadn't sold. I bought it in 1986 for 300.00 and sold it in 1988 for 300.00 to a young guitarist friend who wanted it after I had purchased my black 1979 Stratocaster. Don't know what year it was- I'm guessing 1970's. My first Tele and first real Fender instrument-
saw an Italian bassist playing a fretless one in Nashville, sounded big....I yanked the frets from my 74, then had it stripped down to natural, played out for about a year and traded it for 250 bucks of bar credit at a beach bar called Las Griegas in 87(?).....never looked back.....
this cat played a strat all night and only strapped on the Paul for "Sweet Child"....I really wish I liked the look of Bongos more..
My "Ric" is a copy, but it's got some magic to it. The sound guy for our cover band prefers it over anything else I bring out.
