Originally Posted by
wazkelly
You can't complain about Bass weight until regularly gigging with a Ric 4001 or 4003. Twin truss rods seem to be a large contributing factor to their overall weight plus the larger oversized body weighs a chunk too.
I was a lot skinnier back when playing one of them 3 - 4 nights a week on small stages with more than a dozen par 64 light cans hanging so close you almost felt like a chook being roasted in an oven. Didn't take long for fatigue to set in and that is when you longed for a small 30" scale thing like an SG Bass to carry on with.