What Rickenbacker is this?

I have seen a few of those floating around, I think they might be copies. There is a good video of one, I forget the name of the band, but it has that guitarist that everyone raves on about in it. You know, the one who plays the Ibanez with the F-holes painted on? I forget his name. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the bassist is using one of those.

EDIT: I found the clip I was talking about, man I dislike Paul Gilbert, but the song is nice.

 

Looks like a copy, the lower horn is not very rick-ish at all.

 

The bassist has one on a Paul Gilbert video called Scarified. It's on youtube, pretty cool vid.

 

Don't think its modified, heres another,

And if it is modified, its probably for a Pbass tone, with Rickenbackers non-tapering neck, or mabye just Ric's appearance.

EDITammit! everyone beat me!

 

Ugh that video...so sterile :/

 

btw thats not the original video......crappy redo : (

original bass player from racer x is so much better ( and plays a P bass!! )




i cant spell his last name for the life of me
jean auddrette or sumptin like that........cant pull out any old albums atm

 

I find all neo-classical shredding type stuff sterile and boring, no matter who is playing it.

 

Juan Alderete, plays for the mars volta

 

His names John Alderete, and he was playing a Jazz bass in your video.

The guy playing the Ricken-Ps name is Linus Of Hollywood. I googled him, and couldent find anything on the bass. Maybe youll have better luck then me.

+1 that its a modified Ric. That or, he had a bass custom built to look like a Ric.

 

precisionbacker lol, prolly a modified rick or a custom built bass

 

Distasteful. Depending on what I'm talking about.

 

Its funny cause I was thinking it was a bit Neo Classical when I watched it...but I don't feel I know enough about...like eras of music or whatever to make statements as such

But yeah...snore



Mars volta are awesome though sometimes can drag on a little bit. But not enough to outweigh the awesomeness

 

Juan rarely plays a P bass.lol never seen him play one for Racer X(correct me if im wrong) for the Mars Volta he used to play mostly Jasses with the odd P bass but now he plays mostly Laklands with the odd Fender here and there.

 

To me, it looks like it might be a modified Rick 4000. I have a 72 Rick 400 and it also has a non-tapered neck. It would be very easy to change the pickguard and route the bass for a P-pickup.

Ben

 

Yep, modified 4000. The lower horn on my '73 4000 is slightly stunted compared to my 4001CS.

For anyone who likes Rics but hasn't tried a 4000 (single pickup, no binding), you should try one. Sounds more aggressive than any 4001 I've ever played (and I've played.....oh, I dunno, hundreds).

As for why change the pickup, why does anyone ever change pickups on anything? Because they want a different sound. The 4000 is very snotty-sounding. Maybe he was trying to get something fuller.

Lemmy has different neck pickups on his old Rics (originally Gibson Thunderbird on his 1st bass, then TBird copies on a couple of others, then Bartolini - with one stop somewhere along the way at a DiMarzio Model 1 which lived in his white bass for a while), Bruce Foxton changed the pickups on at least one of his, Joey DeMaio changed the pickups on his, as did Roger Glover. Thousands of people change the pickups on their guitars/basses, it's hardly uncommon.

 

yes modified 4000 bass with a different pickguard and a p-bass pickup

 

Ah, but a P Bass plays totally, totally differently to a Ric. I struggle with any Fenders because of the neck size, taper and string spacing, so even if I liked the sound I'd find them difficult to use. Also the upper fret access on a Ric is much better, which I imagine for someone playing in Paul Gilbert's band would be quite useful.

It may be more that he preferred the way the bass played rather than how it looked. I can execute stuff on my Rics that I could never execute on a Fender; he may have the same problem.

 

Yeah, even in the Scarafied vid, you can see he rips and taps the last frets, the neck profile would be great for that