HW: Lemmy's six-string

[Captain Bl@ck]

Doug,

Yes, Lemmy played the Hopf on Greasy Truckers and on the later Silver
Machine video, there are quite a few pics around of this - if you want one,
email me off list.  In fact, he'd been in the band quite a while by the time
of Greasy Truckers.

The Rickenbacker 4000 is pictured on Space Ritual and in just about every
other Hawk-photo of Lemmy  -  its red on the cover (this was before the
paint job), with two pickups - the second one has been added  - you can tell
if you look at the position of the four knobs, the alignment isn't the same
formation as on a standard 4001.

Regarding the Gibson, he alternated between this and the Ricky on the later
1974 and '75 tours  - apparently he liked the sound of the pick-ups.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Pearson" <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Lemmy's six-string


> Thanks for the additional information, warning: nit-picky Rickenbacker
bass
> trivia follows ...
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:25:11 -0000, Captain Bl at ck <starfield at SUPANET.COM>
> wrote:
> >True, Lemmy's first bass was a Hopf (courtesy of London Airport), which
he
> >loved, but was one of several items nicked from the band sometime in
1972.
>
> Any idea if he would have been playing that one on the 'Greasy Truckers'
> recordings, since those were done after he'd only been in the band for a
> few weeks?
>
> >His first Rickenbacker was a Red 4000,
>
> Do any pictures of this one exist?  I don't recall seeing one with a two
> knob bass (4000 = 1 pickup, 2 knobs, no switch; 4001/4001s = 2 pickups, 4
> knobs, 1 switch), but I could be mistaken.  His bass in the Space Ritual
> photos looks black (but it's tough to tell under the lighting) with 4
knobs
> IIRC.  He seems to have only very rarely used a "standard" 4001; I've
> mostly seen photos with the 4001s [or possibly 4000] model - 4000/4001s =
> fretboard dots, no binding; 4001 "standard" = triangle markers on
> fretboard, binding on body & neck.)
>
> >customised (of course) with a second pick-up,
>
> ... from a Gibson Thunderbird (60s-era single-coil, not 70s/later-era
> humbucker), I believe he's mentioned that a few times (and actually played
> a T-Bird during the 'Warrior' era - the distinctive headstock - nothing
> like a Rickenbacker's - can be recognized in many photos, even in
> silhouette on the 'Warrior' inner sleeve) ...
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com