Rickenbacker Bass Fisking

These videos threaten to break out into a full-on Mr. Plinkett shitfit at any moment but never quite get there.  It is some fine Rickenbacker fisking, though, from a solid Fender fan.  Rics get all the hate from all over, but damn, they often sound so good.  There are many valid points about all the problems in the Rickenbacker design and execution articulated by plenty of folks for many years, but in the right hands, the Rickenbacker bass sound is so amazingly perfect.  Of course, a mid-priced Ibanez SR bass sounds pretty fucking good too--and packs a real punch per dollar--if you don't want the same old Precision or Jazz bass that all the other kids have.  A decent Fender Jazz can be something special, too, and the Ric and Fender Jazz bass were supposedly direct competitors. 

All the Roger Glover fluffing is pretty fucking randomly hilarious in 2015.