Does anybody recognize this bass? + some bass advice neededMusic

[Bram Turismo]

Woah, sorry for the long and perhaps confusing thread title

But anyway, while looking through some Feeder Live shows, I was stunned when I saw this bass:




I know he designs his own basses, but a comment read "nice rickenbacker copy", so I went to google to check it out, and I found this:

It's a little bit different, far from as beautiful as the bassist was using...Was it a copy? Was it a certain model? A modified Rickenbacker perhaps? Or maybe his own creation?


Whatever it is, that bass has got me drooling all over it and it has made me lost my interest in a Fender a little bit.

Here's the deal, right now I'm using two basses, a Westone Spectrum II fretless which I rarely use due to the crappy sound it makes with the music I play. And the second one is a cheap Fender Jazz copy, an SX Vintage 4 string bass.

The SX gives me a limited feeling, where it gave me a great feeling to start with a year ago. But that was in the time I couldn't play a scale or slap and pop, which I can now (but of course not so good since I've only got a year experience). I've been thinking about buying a real bass for quite a while now, though I've never known which suited me perfectly.

What I'm looking for? Well, you could call me a Feeder bassist, only coming from Norway The sound he uses is "so my style, so me". It's rather hard to explain but I'm always impressed with the bass in Feeder songs...

A little into detail on what I have been looking for; a Fender Precision bass is basically the only thing I've come across which had me going "holy crap! I want one!" I've seen a LOT of fine basses out there, including Pako's bass but for some reason, only the Fender Precision managed to get me going. Untill now then...

So, is a Rickenbacker bass any good? Or should I stick with my Fender fanboy-ism and go with a Fender?

 

[Keichi Tsuchiya]

I don't hear him much in there. You'd get a lot more help from the talkbass.com forum. I'm not advertising, seriously. I don't know much about Rick's, Pako prolly might have some more insight on this.

 

[F1GTR]

Taka originally built his own bass for recording purposes, after working at Tokyo guitar makers ESP. He discovered an old Japanese Jazz bass copy which had an unusual black binding on a solid maple neck, so set about replacing the rest of it using an Ash bodied Jazz bass from Neil's on Denmark Street. All that was left to do was stick it to the neck, spray it back and chop the horns off.

To make it look more like a Jazzmaster he affixed a Badass bridge and a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder Precision, Jazz Bass pickups finishing it off with Combat Tone circuits.

With Combat (the Tokyo guitar workshop) he also had them make several other basses of his own design. One he describes as "a Spector meets Prince's guitar", another a Rickenbacker meets Prince's guitar and the final, his signature, is a copied body from a Gretsch semi acoustic bass guitar coupled with a solid ash body which was then sprayed with sparkling gold paint.

Hope that helps. Seems like it's a custom design.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Thanks for that one F1 👍