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bobjones2260
 Post subject: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 18th, 2016, 10:44 am 
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Just when you think you seen it all, this is from a Left Handed guitar facebook page. Now not actually sure the bass is a Ric as the picture does not show the headstock but none the less worth a view. Has anyone ever had a bass with a Wammy Bar?

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 Post subject: Re: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 18th, 2016, 12:22 pm 
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Neat. I have never used a whammy bar. I don't even ever use it on a guitar. Maybe if I ever get to Les Claypool-caliber of playing (yeah, right!) I might give it a shot.

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I never really "got" what a Rick is capable of until I ran it stereo a few times in my college band. We used to call it the "Piano of Doom". You get all the bottom and all the top in total a**kicking mode.

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 Post subject: Re: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 19th, 2016, 10:15 am 
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Kahler has been making after-market bass whammys - here modeled by The Cars' beautiful Ben Orr in 1984 - for years.


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 Post subject: Re: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 19th, 2016, 10:50 pm 
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Les Claypool has been playing using whammy bars for quite a while now.

several of his Carl Thompson basses have it
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as well as his Pachyderm one

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Also Victor Wooten had one in one of his Fodera:
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Lee Sklar and Billy Sheehan also had tremolo bars at some point if I'm not mistaken.
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PostPosted: July 20th, 2016, 3:56 am 
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Nonetheless, that is one sexy looking Black Beauty, and the scorpion decal puts the poison-icing on the cake!

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 Post subject: Re: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 25th, 2016, 8:16 pm 
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Well, lookie here:
https://reverb.com/item/2541751-circa-1 ... criteo-ads

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I never really "got" what a Rick is capable of until I ran it stereo a few times in my college band. We used to call it the "Piano of Doom". You get all the bottom and all the top in total a**kicking mode.

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PostPosted: July 26th, 2016, 12:46 pm 
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I got one on mine and when I sell it the next person will have one....lol
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I even had a gold one on it for a while :)
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PostPosted: July 27th, 2016, 7:37 am 
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When I worked at Guitar Center in Berkeley back in '93, a used lefty Ibanez SR800 with a Kahler bass tremolo came in.

It also had Bartolini pickups which weren't so common back then. It was just such a weird bass all the way around.

I wanted it so bad... but I was broke (I worked at GC... DUH!) and some righty dude came in and bought it FOR THE PARTS. :x

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 Post subject: Re: Rick Bass with Wammy Bar
PostPosted: July 27th, 2016, 8:30 am 
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Addison wrote:
I wanted it so bad... but I was broke (I worked at GC... DUH!) and some righty dude came in and bought it FOR THE PARTS. :x


Ouch! :(
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