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I need to thank the guys at Anderton's Music for their permission to use the clips of Ric Bass demos.
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And I need to thank Ron O'Keefe at the Ron's Vintage website for the many pics of basses from his collection. It's one thing to collect them all but a real act of generosity to share them on his website.
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Some of my all time favorite bands have had a Ric bass driving the car. I was an early "prog rock" kid and would sit listening to Genesis and Yes by the hour. Later I followed Rush as they pushed me through the end of high school and into my college years. But I rarely saw people using them in local bands and I never understood why. Now I know that there weren't that many built, and the ones that could be found were expensive compared to the Fender and Gibson guitars I did see.

So this has taken me a while to circle back to making. I enjoyed the reading and enjoyed wading through all the various models and artists. I hope you do too.

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