Cliff is the man that made me get a bass. Cliff is the man that inspired me to keep practicing no matter how much I didn’t want to. His music his style all of it magnificent. He was a virtuoso lost too soon. R.I.P. Cliff Burton
@@misterhutch2053 if you need a routine to keep playing, then you aren't enjoying it. you should just feel inspiration and want to pick it up. 1-2 hours later, your fingers hurt.
@@gnutard1735 I think you missed my point, I want to play so much that I always pick it up but I’m just noodling around and not making any progress I feel like I wanna get better and better but I can’t if I just keep playing the same Metallica songs and shit that I know you know? I’ve never had formal musical training or no Regimen so to say that an instructor teacher taught me so I just want to have a routine that I go by every time I pick it up so I know I’m getting better and not just a glorified cover band artist
@@misterhutch2053don’t play covers and you won’t be a glorified cover artist. Learn things in your own unique way instead of looking them up and also take that guys advice
I broke a string on my Ibanez bass during a church and rehearsal and the band leader casually pulled out a 1974 Rick and said “I guess you can play this.” I plugged it in to the sound system that was EQ’d for the Ibanez. I nearly blew the sound system up when I plucked the low E. So much power.
I had somewhat the same experience. We where jamming somewhere and I brought no bass with me. So I could play on the Bass guitar of the father of a friend, with permission. I did not know rickenbacker Basses... I just thought it was a funny old bass... On a Yamaha 8x10"... 70's stack.. Turns out it was a 70's rickenbacker, played great with impressive sound.
Paul McCartney also used a Ric towards the end of the Beatles and extensively while with Wings. IIRC, it sounds particularly good on the Wings at the Speed of Sound album
@@ymck7246he changed back when doing Get Back. But for Abbey Road he used his Rickenbacker. That was his bass from The Beatles Rubber Soul until Wings London Town. He used different basses here and there. An example is the white album. He used a J-Bass on 3 songs for the album. But aside from Get Back, McCartney never used another bass for an album.
@@sysiphuspeart9012Yeah, but it died on him, and he eventually settled for an Aria bass, with his signature model being the Black ‘n Gold Aria. I can’t remember, but I wanna say Aria made the bass to Cliff’s usual specs, like on the “Frankenbacker”.
Jazz bass 30% bridge pickup, 70% neck pickup, same EQ settings. Geddy said he switched to a jazz bass because he could get a better low end, but tweak the treble to match the Ricky.
@@mrebear9758He plays on just the neck pickup pretty much. His main Kalamazoo 72 black J bass had a bad bridge pickup in it which had really low output.
@@Farewelltokingz That was true, but the bridge pick-up was rewound by Tom Brantley. I have a pair of the replica pick-ups from Tom and the balance is pretty typical now for a 70s Jazz Bass. From what I can see, the only thing Geddy fiddles with now is the Samsamp settings and everything is wide open on the Jazz.
Even so, his Rick, along with Cliff, Lemmy, Chris Squire, and others faced a major problem with their Ricks. The problem? Double truss rods. Try adjusting both to get the neck straight. No picnic. I'll stick with a Fender P-Bass; and not the stupid new ones that feature both a P-Bass and J-Bass pickups. What a terrible joke!
it sucks that despite the increasing popularity of prog bands like king crimson you still dont hear much from prog era genesis, I listened to those albums a ton during middle school and the bass and drums on those songs are infinitely better than everything that came out during the phil collins era
@@andrew9790This is some little kid mindset bullshit. People don't like Cliff because he was in Metallica. People liked old Metallica BECAUSE Cliff was part of the group. He wrote a ton of really great bass parts that weren't just emulating Dave Mustaine's riffs (all songs up to Ride the Lightning were written by Mustaine & Burton), they were unique bass parts that stood out from the crowd & weren't as easy as you'd think. Especially versatile for an early Thrash band. I bet you're going through that "nothing is good enough for me" phase. I went through that phase around 21 or so, when I started to think my childhood heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan & Dimebag Darrell weren't good guitarists because I'd discovered John Petrucci & Guthrie Govan & thought Prog Jazz was the hardest genre to play. I've grown out of that now, but I get it. If it ain't John Myung or Les Claypool then it "sucks", right? Maybe pick up a bass, look up "From Who the Bell Tolls Live With Cliff Burton", you'll know the vid when you see it, He's wearing a Misfits shirt), & just try to follow along with what Cliff is playing. Then come back & reread your extremely uninformed comment. Again, you got it backwards. People don't say "Oh, I love Cliff because he was in Metallica & I'm a Metallica fanboy!" It's the other way around. People only like that Era of Metallica because of Cliff's insane writing & playing skills, especially in a genre where bass players were usually setting up water bottles lol. Cliff is definitely one of the best to ever step on stage with a bass. & that's OBJECTIVE.
I love Rickenbackers. It was my first bass. Chris squire is the reason I started playing bass. Having said that over the years I’ve discovered that the P-bass just has a superior tone. It retains the treble of the Rick but is much thicker.
I owned a P-Bass. Sorry to say but the worst bass I've owned. I loved the tone, but felt it was too bulky and trouble with my hand on the neck. I traded it in for a Kramer bass. It became my all-time favorite. It's a great bass, but not everyone can manage it.
Chris quire.Bass. Howe. Anderson. White. And wakeman. My favorite line up. Although relayer was favorite album. I met John Anderson and Rick wakeman in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. I snuck down to the dressing room at break. 2 security guards, each had one side of jon, while he was in a trance. I did not talk to Jon, had my 2011 es 175 with, me hoping to see Howe, and humbly ask him to sign it. Even if he would have signed my guitar with a child-like mess, I would have held it up in an offering to god, the 90 miles home. So cooool.
Oh, I'm not Italian but definitely thought "a pick on a bass!? Tf" 😂 To each their own though. Music is art and there are no rules. Just odd for me personally
Chris Squire of Yes had the body of his Rick cut super thin, for weight, on account of back problems. Along with his pinching picking technique, it brought out those growly high mids even more. Check out Roundabout by Yes for a taste.
that’s false, he said in an interview that his rick got super thin because before forming Yes he covered the whole body with thinfoil first then asked a luthier to remove it, after that he painted it a different color then asked the luthier to remove that also and when he got it back the guy painted it olympic white-ish and told him he would not be able to scrap another finish from it without making the bass too thin to properly work.
@@1199ccttvYup, that is the truth. Rick Wakeman gave him the three neck bass that he played on Awaken. There was a copy of that made later on. That one was a bit heavy. Near the end, it was certainly a chore for Chris to play an entire show. I was right up front in front of Chris, and he nearly fell over trying to take that bass and strap off him to his tech. Chris was not only a stellar bass player, and had such a great laugh, he really loved his kids.
To each their own. I love Matsumoku Japanese basses. If someone gave me a Fender or a Rick, I would just keep it in the case until I could sell for a profit.
@@kjaze I used to have an Ibanez bolt neck 4001 copy, that I copied it was so good. Mine was okay. Also a St. George copper colour with a handle in the body. Scary cool bass, fattest neck in the universe. Pickups distorted awesomely, whenever they wanted to.
@@TheaDoesStuffWow true true he's a bit more in tie with his vocals but still would be kinda cool to see Danny play some slayer not to mention his tone in the seasons of the abyss album was pretty cool
@@baconbitz7937 lol never really been a big fender fan tbh. Neither for guitars nor basses. None of my instruments are fender. I’ve played a P bass in the past for years in my old band (was my keyboardists bass) but never owned one nor have I felt the desire to get myself one.. But last I checked I am a prol, and I saved up money for over a year to buy that bass, working at my crusty ass prol job. Sounds like my Rick is a prol bass, to me.. 😹😝
The dilettante’s bass is a Donner P-Bass copy. Built well-downright sturdy!, plays fine even though the straight neck is a mile below the new set of regular 50-105 Slinkies that btw, sound really good with lots of tonal range from what I consider a really good pickup! Hey, I’m a guitarist on a budget that needed a bass for recording and inspiration for grooves and fingerpicking practice. That being said, regardless of who (Having their own individual tone requirements for various reasons-hey, different people in different bands with different styles!) is using what pups on their Ricks, I particularly like the Lemmy-like tone in this demo and WANT THAT SOUND! I don’t even have to plug in to know I’m not going to get it with my dilettante bass. I’ll have to get real Ricko for that.
@@subtletyandnuancerules Lemmy actually swapped out his pups for I think Gibson humbuckers. But when Rick build him his signature Rick (which is GOD DAMN fucking gorgeous may I add 🤤) they equipped it with their humbucking pickup. Rickenbacker 4001/4003 comes with single coils. So technically Lemmy’s tone isn’t even the traditional Rickenbacker tone. Altho yes there’s more than just pickups that affect the tone but I’m sure those humbuckers change it up quite a bit.
Except for the fact that Cliff’s Rickenbacker was completely taken apart and put back together. Cliff liked the look and playable fretboard with low frets. Beyond that all the electronics and pickups were hodgepodged together….by a genius
Although Cliff Burton did play a modified (different pickups) Ricky 4001 when he first started in Metallica, he was much more known for using Aria Pro basses - specifically an SB1000, followed by a custom SB Black 'n' Gold.
Geddy Lee said himself once that when he got his first Fender bass he could easily shape the top end to sound like a Rickenbacker top end but he was getting more punch in the low end. Kind of like what can be heard in this video.
With Geddy Lee, that Bass was all right but I prefer to 72 fender jazz Bass and all the other jazz basses that he has sounds a lot more better, especially that transparent Bing Cherry fender jazz with the maple fretboard , that motha is cold-blooded tight
@@russslagel514number 2 is Geddy lee of Rush. Who said on many occasions that hearing Chris squire’s bass line on “no opportunity neccecary no experience needed” was his instant wanting for a rickenbacker bass
@charliegglines3965 Thank you! The hair was very Chris Squire-esque. So it threw me off. I also always associate Geddy with the Steinbergers and Fenders even though I know damn well he played a Rick back in the day.
Chris Squire is the most iconic Ric bassist for my money. The 4001’s most unique quality is its Ric-O-Sound stereo output, and he put it to its best use.
@@JKeltTV Not in my view, unless you're going to run it as always on. I like to be able to switch the pedal on and off, which you can't do with the 2112. The 2112 is only really useful in recording or professional situations where you can blend the two channels in a mixer.
@@JKeltTVif you have one amp- get the 2112 di; two amps- get the rack. Add more mids and treble, behs at 12.o'clock everything on a J bass cranked with a compressor at a 4:1 compression. Play around and make killer riffs.
My first behs was an Epiphone EB-3 that has VERY similar same specs as Rickenbacker basses because the mudbucker pickup and mini humbucker and whatnot. I learned to play on it without knowing what a "normal " behs soundes like for almost a decade! I heard somebody say that these basses sound so powerful, yet so opaque and ominous that they describe them as "Hearing Godzilla roar from the other end of the city" I live by those words! And that's why I named my EB-3 "Kaiju" lol
Fun fact, a lot of people attribute geddy lees bass tone to the rickenbaker, but in almost all of the Rush records he used his Fender Jazz Bass, the rickenbaker was mostly used live
It’s absolutely a unique and awesome tone. I sometimes think of a Rick as “not a bass” exactly, but a different class of instrument on its own. In the hands of Chris Squire or Geddy Lee… whoa!
Lemmy modded his Rics with Thunderbird pickups cause he loved the looks and hated the sound, Cliff used a Mudbucker and a jazz bass pickup (and a stacked single coil for solos), and Geddy eventually swapped to Jazz basses Im not shitting on the Ric, I just find it hilarious that none of the examples he gave used stock basses or stayed with them
Absolutely, I started playing bass 30 years ago because I watched Cliff’em All and fell in love with that Cliff Burton Ric and now I have a 78 Fireglo and cherish it
I'm surprised Steve Harris doesn't play a Rickenbacker. Could it be the construction and material used in the Rickenbacker that causes the unique sound? I wonder what sound you'd have if you put the Rickenbacker bridge pickup in the other bass guitar?
Man I was in band in middle school and learned to play sheet music with a saxophone, and for my age was pretty decent as my teacher and older students let me in on more important parts. That being said trying to learn guitar or bass after that was so wildly different and I felt like I had no ear for what I was playing. I always admire musicians because I understand it takes an extreme amount of repetition and learning your own instrument to be even tolerable.
The Rickenbacker sounds like a really clean acoustic bass, that when amplified is still clean but just louder. Whereas the Fender sounds "electrified" and not as clean.