Author Topic: What that thing ? (Chris Squire's Ric 1969) (Read 161 times)

elwoodblue · « **on:** January 16, 2013, 02:32:59 PM »

At 1:17 and a bit beyond you can see a clamp/capo/pickup?? of some sort on the heel of the headstock.
Does anyone know what that is ... looks like a hotel room repair to get you through the gig sorta deal , or was that a permanent fixture on his old Ric ?

just curious...here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXaPKDd7oGQ

cheers,
Elwood

moonliner · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2013, 02:57:22 PM »

There's lots of information on that over at the Ricsource forum.
I believe it was a temporary repair. I think the director Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66) owns that bass now. As I said, all that information is at that Ric forum. There's a whole section (as you would imagine) dedicated to Chris Squire.

David Houck · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2013, 03:50:26 PM »

Cool video; thanks!

elwoodblue · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2013, 04:29:32 PM »

Thanks moonliner, I'll venture over to Ricsource soon.
I recently rediscovered the XYZ album (thx youtube!) ...boy does Chris sound good on that one.
He cuts through the mix great on that one.

thanks agin,

moonliner · « **Reply #4 on:** January 16, 2013, 05:24:54 PM »

http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=20&sid=8cad126231caf21fe7e5e7ffdb6fe3b6

Here's a link to the Chris Squire portion of that forum.
I was wrong, it's not Ricsource, it's RicReSource!

pauldo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 16, 2013, 05:32:21 PM »

Great song and sound!
I was surprised to hear the audience applaud at the end . . . at times it appeared that they weren't really enjoying the tune.

elwoodblue · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2013, 09:47:54 PM »

Seems like most of us have experienced that one pauldo...LOL

thx for the link moonliner !