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

7 ай бұрын

What’s your practice routine to be more like him? I need a routine to use :/

@gnutard1735

7 ай бұрын

@@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.

@misterhutch2053

7 ай бұрын

@@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

@i2ottenBannana

7 ай бұрын

@@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

@Smothzilla

7 ай бұрын

RIP Cliff Burton 🙏💙❤️‍🔥🫂👑😊🕊️

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.

@vladimirerfan7721

5 ай бұрын

Good times! 🤘

@Bitterstone3849

4 ай бұрын

Praise the Lord 🙏 & God bless Rickenbacker's.

@The_Copper_Element_Itself

3 ай бұрын

Same thing happens when you plug an active bass on the amp input for a passive lmfao (Totally not from experience)

@RoderikvanReekum

3 ай бұрын

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.

@curtisy6234

Ай бұрын

You made the Church Rock out.That's awesome

I've owned one for 45 years. Thanks to Geddy Lee and Chris Squire.

@nilsen589

7 ай бұрын

Me too. And because of Mike Rutherford.

@autk

7 ай бұрын

Chris and Geddy, very tall cotton.

@louisb5563

7 ай бұрын

Nothing like Classical Prog!!! 41yrs for me, similar influences...but I have to add Paul McCartney as my initial influence👍🏻

@johnnywonka1211

7 ай бұрын

exactly !! I couldn't have put it better myself.....

@Marshblocker

7 ай бұрын

This guy bass

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

@italozanoti7180

7 ай бұрын

yes but with flats and neck pickup, total different sound

@ericjsmoczynski4374

7 ай бұрын

Bruce Foxton of The Jam used a Rick 4000 series bass. The characteristic tone is prominent on the early Jam records.

@user-rm8lr3tt7m

7 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@snarkywisecrack

7 ай бұрын

I read somewhere he used the Hoffner because its shape was good for left-handed players. Is the Rickenbacker good for left-handed people?

@user-rm8lr3tt7m

7 ай бұрын

@@snarkywisecrack he made many alterations to make it comfortable. His Rickenbacker became a signature during the 90's or 2000's.

Burton changed the bridge PUp for a Jazz bass one. It’s also in the photo lol

@sysiphuspeart9012

8 ай бұрын

Isn't that a sidewinder (eb-0) in the neck too?

@discoreposession

8 ай бұрын

@@sysiphuspeart9012and a stacked strat literally wedged in the bridge! welding wizard cliff burton was a real one

@sysiphuspeart9012

8 ай бұрын

@@discoreposession ?! I'm guessing to kill hum from the jazz?

@discoreposession

8 ай бұрын

@@sysiphuspeart9012 im not sure (i dont know anything about wiring or hum haha) but search up cliff’s frankenbacker. he was a beast at wiring

@Blyegh

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@mrebear9758

8 ай бұрын

I think Geddy plays the Jazz wide open

@Farewelltokingz

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@mrebear9758

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@monty2005

7 ай бұрын

I am the proud owner of a Ricky and and wouldn’t ever swap it

@stanleybroniszewsky8538

7 ай бұрын

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!

Those Rickenbackers are amazing sounding basses and add a very unique quality to the music they are in

@stanleybroniszewsky8538

7 ай бұрын

But a PITA to work on. Those Ricks had two truss rods. No easy task for people with no prior experience.

Always a snappy and chunky sound with Rickenbacker. Got to love the craftsmanship.

My dad passed away in 2020 and recently I got a hold of his jetglo 4001 from my brother. It was almost like finding Excalibur.

@hartleyw6323

7 ай бұрын

Were ye worthy?

@bryanchandler3486

7 ай бұрын

I'm sorry about your dad but what a cool piece of his life to acquire!

Rest in peace Cliff and Lemmy, God rest to the best bass players ever. 😇👍

@Rowebot15

7 ай бұрын

Lemmy don't rest. He just changed his address

@danielpalmersofficial

7 ай бұрын

@@Rowebot15 Oh, okay. 😂😅

@andrew9790

7 ай бұрын

Cliff Burton was never even close to the best bass player ever just because he was in Metallica,fan boys😂. He weren't even in the top 20 bass greats

@danielpalmersofficial

7 ай бұрын

@@andrew9790 He’s not my favourite, however I do respect him a lot. 😀👍

@atomdecay

7 ай бұрын

​@@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.

Mike Rutherford deserves a lot of credit for his playing too. The prog era of Genesis had some of the best music to ever be recorded.

@jgttmv

7 ай бұрын

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

@jonathanmitchell3545

7 ай бұрын

​@@jgttmvcuz Genesis is fruity as hell. KC is cold and edgy. Fripponomics ftw

@giantclaw138

7 ай бұрын

Trespass and Selling England by the Pound are two of my all-time favorite albums. They're so freaking good!

@bryanchandler3486

7 ай бұрын

What the fuck is wrong with being fruity? ​@@jonathanmitchell3545

I am not a musician, but man, the difference between those guitars is unbelievable. That deep, soulful bass that just hits, it feels so good!

@CSBourne

5 ай бұрын

Deep soulful bass ? yep you're not a musician.

Haha i love the way you say "Rickenbacker Bridge Pickup" 😅

You should do Robert Sledge from Ben Folds Five, his tone is badass.

@HANNIBALBARCA247

8 ай бұрын

Yea ok👌

@tsurc1090

7 ай бұрын

The fart tone

@jeredalmeida1880

7 ай бұрын

When I saw them in 96, Rob was playing an Epiphone Les Paul bass through a pair of Marshall stacks for the whole set.

McCartney's tune "Coming Up" was played on a Rickenbacker and is an amazing bass sound and great bass line as well .

@jacoboreyes3160

7 ай бұрын

Horrible song, thou

@rudygracia5573

7 ай бұрын

So was Silly Love songs.

@binxbolling

2 ай бұрын

I think his playing his younger self in that video made him realize how iconic his Hofner was. That's around the time he switched back.

Some Italian bassist that sees the pick would scream ILLEGAL!

@enigmatmz

7 ай бұрын

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

@your_local_seagull

7 ай бұрын

Thought the exact same

@FoghornLeghorn-fn4gd

7 ай бұрын

@SouthoftheHill You mean that Sacha Baron Cohen look-alike, right? I forgot all about him--the algorithm took him out of my feed. Yo, foweeo.

@queuedjar4578

7 ай бұрын

S L A P P

@SetiSupreme

6 ай бұрын

He's Italian? Never knew

Another Ric player who uses the Ric-O-sound is Al Cisneros from the band Sleep!!! Heavy BEHS playing! ❤

@jpettltd

8 ай бұрын

Al is underrated. His work with om is great

@JeniOnly

8 ай бұрын

@@jpettltd Totally agree, Om is an experience!

@bitchpilled

8 ай бұрын

Love cisneros!!!

@lordrathut

8 ай бұрын

Sleep is amazing

@christiantuttle544

8 ай бұрын

ive literally been asking for his tone forever dude

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.

@justinkennedy4768

7 ай бұрын

I love the band yes, I think he's one of the best bassists ever

@Jeremya74

7 ай бұрын

That depends on were on the neck your playing

@stanleybroniszewsky8538

7 ай бұрын

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.

@scottreday9377

7 ай бұрын

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.

@siriuskontent6800

7 ай бұрын

No you didn t own one

And about Chris Squire and Roger Glover? Both guys make history with Rickenbacker too.

@duhsixsixsix

7 ай бұрын

Touche'!

@scottgalloway345

7 ай бұрын

Glenn Hughes played a Ricky too

They both sound awesome

They do sound awesome Lemmy's bass playing would not be the same without the ricky 😊😊😊

@Fireglo

8 ай бұрын

Except he literally changed the pickups lmao

@peterwible

8 ай бұрын

@fireglo he used Thunderbird pickups I think.

@stanleybroniszewsky8538

7 ай бұрын

Don't forget Lemmy played through a Marshall. That was a factor as well. I've never seen anyone else play bass through a Marshall before or since.

@viciousattackvideo

7 ай бұрын

@@stanleybroniszewsky8538Jack Bruce would like a word

@stanleybroniszewsky8538

7 ай бұрын

@@viciousattackvideo - I'm sure he would. I just never followed him to know his equipment.

Day 6 of asking for Paul Gray’s behs tone and song Iowa

@mattacostaguitar4048

8 ай бұрын

Yeeeeeee

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.

@1199ccttv

7 ай бұрын

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.

@MrDaraghkinch

7 ай бұрын

@@1199ccttv Cool, I never heard that, thanks.

@luvyesmusici4886

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

Ricky 4000 - 4001 models, i love those. And Jazz Bass is close 2nd. Precisions dont move me at all.

@thejudgefrom69

7 ай бұрын

Yeah something bout them Rickenbackers. The look, the sound, everything!

@kjaze

6 ай бұрын

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.

@paulpennington-mv7rt

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@thepotatotaxi2430

3 ай бұрын

I like Ricks but Dingwall exists yk

Ricky’s just have that magic

Day 52 of asking for Robert Trujillos behs tone

@lastfirst3512

7 ай бұрын

Bez tun

@samuelfierro8205

7 ай бұрын

no one cares about trujillo

@tylerremley-osbourn5674

7 ай бұрын

@@samuelfierro8205 megadeth fan?

@raptorrsr5817

7 ай бұрын

@@tylerremley-osbourn5674both bands are great

@tylerremley-osbourn5674

7 ай бұрын

@@raptorrsr5817 I agree, I was just joking💀

I enjoyed that precision bass tone the most.

@DougHell

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. P for the win. All day.

Chris Squire and the Rickenbacker! Day 14 of Chris Squire Behs tone!

Geddy Lee is a LEGEND! along live RUSH!

@houseofsolomon2440

7 ай бұрын

He started with Fender ---> moved to rickenbacker ---> back to fender. I guess he had a steinberger phase, in there, too.

@panbaiye

7 ай бұрын

By far the best bassist shown. The rest are on much lower levels.

RICK FOR LIFE!!!! Just finally got myself one this year and it absolutely changed my life! Never turning back!

@baconbitz7937

7 ай бұрын

the rick is the bass of the bourgeois

@baconbitz7937

7 ай бұрын

p-bass is proletariat

@the.bloodless.one1312

7 ай бұрын

@@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.. 😹😝

@subtletyandnuancerules

7 ай бұрын

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.

@the.bloodless.one1312

7 ай бұрын

@@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.

Rick James could show you how to play that thing. Y’all are putzin’ here.

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.

@kjaze

6 ай бұрын

Love the Matsumoku basses!

Tom Arya's bass tone 🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏🥺🥺🥺

@nooneatallish4291

8 ай бұрын

@@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

@WilDBeestMF

7 ай бұрын

@@nooneatallish4291 I have always liked his tone on that record the best. I mean it's nothing groundbreaking, it's just NICE.

Phil Lynott had a very interesting sound....day 11,011

@scottgalloway345

7 ай бұрын

He swapped to a Schecter bass ,a much overlooked bass player

The Rickenbacker always sounds like it’s in the front on the mix. It cuts through beautifully without dominating the sound. Love em!

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

Victor Wootens first fodera is a sound I haven’t heard come from another bass. It’s so clear and sweet sounding

@jamesmichaelfrank

7 ай бұрын

Fodera bass are on another level .

Chris Squire and Roger Glover as well

Both basses sound good. It’s all subjective in the end.

Those were absolutely some of the best bass players ever. Much Love to Geddy Lee! 💜😎👍

Day 24 of asking for Geddy Lee's behs tone

@mrebear9758

8 ай бұрын

Buy a Samsamp YYZ and a 70s Jazz Bass. Done. The YYZ even comes with his personal settings

@JKeltTV

8 ай бұрын

@@mrebear9758 I really want one, but I always wondered if it would be more worth it to get the 2112 preamp instead. Thoughts?

@mrebear9758

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@tallskinnybassist8716

8 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@auberjean6873

7 ай бұрын

​@@mrebear9758 2112. I like that album! 😉 Nice of you to give out that kind of info, Mr. E. Bear, E-🐻 or Mystery Bear. Respect.

AYO where is Chris squire?????

@lightandthesungod

8 ай бұрын

I’ve been asking for the last 42 days (what I’ve been counting at least) and still no squire

@russslagel514

7 ай бұрын

Oh geez. I thought "this guy" number 2 was Chris Squire. That's why I didn't mention him. If That's not him he needs to be on here for sure.

@charliegglines3965

7 ай бұрын

@@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

@atypicalgump6472

7 ай бұрын

Chris Squire died around the 27th of June , 2015. A form of Leukemia took him out for a walk with John Entwhistle.

@russslagel514

7 ай бұрын

@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.

Geddy Lee’s Rickenbacker from the 70s had the greatest sound ever

@CharleyRobertson-bt4kl

5 ай бұрын

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

Day 59 asking for David Hungate's behs tone.

Day 82 of asking for Tim Commerfords behs tone

@damianscahill2360

8 ай бұрын

jesus 82 days-

@fletcherjohnson1484

8 ай бұрын

42! I meant 42

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

That was truly bass

Lorna doom bass tone!

Day 10 of asking for Victor Wootens tone

This guy just always looks so happy

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.

Day 10 of asking for John Paul Jones behs tone

Warwick thumb: Hold my beer

Sounds like a 70's Dirty Harry movie.

I love these basses. Very good for melodic players. You can play guitar on those things.

peter hooks bass tone? (He plays a rickenbacker) Edit: First!!!!!!

@ej8736

8 ай бұрын

On some but if we are talking disorder then totally

@Fireglo

8 ай бұрын

It was actually a counterfeit.

@krzysiu4003

8 ай бұрын

He had a copy.

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

@geraldfriend256

2 ай бұрын

Yeah the stock pickups are low output which is just their sound. People tend to love it a lot or hate it completely

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

We need Chris squires and John wetton bass tone pleaseeee

It's like your Walmart skateboard you buy and then you finally have enough to purchase an actual pro model.

We all know Geddy is the real master here... yet somehow the most humble and last one to admit it.

mccartney also played a lot one of those

Played both Fender P & Rick. Used to say, "Rick for the pick, Fender for the fingers".

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.

Cliff’s an inspiration for all aspiring bassists

'Most distinctive' - can't be 'most unique' Great sounds - both of them!

I got one from 1978 until 2010. The secret of the sound of this beauty lies in the sustain. Still regret that I sold it.

A Rick sounds like the the love child of a Precision and a Jazz.

I remember former tool bassist Paul D’Amour played a rickenbacker

Who knew Mike Meyers(Shrek) had such extensive and historical knowledge of the bass.

You missed the ultimate Rick man, of course, Chris Squire. He sanded it down, made it lighter and turned it into a stereo sound. The man who started lead bass, so many iconic sounds and compositions. A man like no other.

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!

He really had to pull the Scott pilgrim looking closet cosplay out when he started playing lol

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.

Rickenbackers sound amazing, but I’m a sucker for the Warwick tone. There’s just something so alien about how they sound.

That’s the Geddy Lee sound! Absolute legend

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?

Please note NONE of those guys used the stock Ric bridge pickup. Cliff had a J pickup AND a guitar pickup underneath the bridge if you can imagine that! Also, Cliff only used that Ric on the first album. You can see him use his otherwise famous Aria Pro bass from Ride and Master, also you must take into account his Mesa amp and speakers

Cliff had that shit on the neck 🙏 man of culture

Great Rickenbacker sound, now I have to buy one 💀

Peart and Lifeson were the luckiest people to have Geddy Flipping Lee as their bassist 😂

This man single-handedly changed my mind on Irish people

True, the Fender can never sound like a Rick. But what also helps is using a pick when playing. I was stubborn just using my fingers to play. But once I grabbed a thick pick for playing (2.00/3.00 mm), everything changed. More attack and distinct sound.

Both of those Basses are awesome. Can't go wrong with either one of them.

The Ricki has a thick distorted upper mid-range which is very distinctive. Sounds awesome!!!

BEHS had me in stitches. Awesome short.😂

Ricks rule. I once had a pretty, blue 5-string.

I can listen to that riff all day

Lemmy played it like a 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.

Emily was such a great add for OTK, especially on these cooking streams.

Rip Cliff, you were a God at bass and that sweet Bass solo in Am I evil

Royal blood’s bass sound is probably one of the most unique bass sounds there is

I love my '77 4001. Plays like a dream.

Lemmy was the ultimate bassist ever

The clarity and damping of low end buzz is remarkable. A whole different ball game.

You can’t really say Cliff Burton was a typical Rick player in this context, cus his one had a jazz bass pickup in the bridge and a mudbucker in the neck.

Danny Phantom theme would go crazy on this

I've always loved the Rickenbacker bass!

Geddy Lee made it iconic for me