No Burnzey, it's the prog-rock basses, but yeah the Rickenbacker electrics are common among old hippies I've noticed lol. I played with one
Ya caught me Brayf lol. Though I nearly beat Morrowind, it's so big I guess it's easy to miss or forget things.
I've heard decent things about the Thunderbird, Sir Exxon, but I haven't laid my hands on one. I did get to play around with a Ricky though, even though at the time I didn't know what I was doing.
With the warlock, it's got ups and downs. Talking only about the NJ, ups include awesome tone, very thin neck, surprising range, holds string tune for months on end, and of course, looking cool. It's ideally suited for speed in a range between jazz and 180 bpm, 16th note-pounding death metal, due to both the percussive punch of playing a string and the thin neck. And I've played that range lol.
I limit the downs to slightly above average weight and neck-dive, which drove me crazy for awhile but I came to accept, for lack of a good local luthier. This means it's not the easiest bass to play since you've got to adjust yourself to it or sit down to play it. I haven't played anything comparable with my style in that price range ($450 for a 5 string).
The guitars rarely have the neck dive issue - the bass's issue was probably an afterthought of reusing the body for much longer instruments than electric guitars. Mine is four feet long. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 09-19-2005, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Lucern ]