Rickenbacker Bass Fan Club Meeting In Dave Reaume's Basement

Never Dug The Rickenbacker Fireglo, Atmo

Not a fan of the furniture bass, either, but the iconic Fireglo never did it for me.

Non-Carbon Chinese Garbage Is Coming For You, Guitar Edition

If it wasn't a completely shitty thing to do, I would be all over a couple of those fake Rics in tastelessly goofy colors just for fun.  These rip-offs are big business, just like the garbage plastic Chinese bikes.  Pretty fucking scary unbelievable that you get this shit drop-shipped right to your door.  Apparently some of the Les Paul fakes are completely bonkers with made-up serial numbers and 'Made in U.S.A.' markings but Epiphone branded hardware.  That's nuts.

FWIW, I agree with video fella that Rickenbacker should have a lower-priced line of their famous guitars to compete better with the legion of outright counterfeits.

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.