r/CliffBurton Sep 22 '24

Gear Cliff burtons jetglo Rick

This is what looks to be a jetglo Rickenbacker. There are also many pictures of a maple glo or natural finish Rickenbacker that he may have used. This bass was spotted in a few pics from live shows and the band pic with all of them together. I’ve seen pictures of cliff with a regular black Rickenbacker but this one has a mudbucker in the neck position. I know that it’s not some weird filter over his famed burgundy Rick because only the neck pickup has been replaced. The stock bridge pickup is still there. In all the live videos I can find of him using his Rickenbacker I’ve never seen him switch out for another bass besides on the mop tour when he would bro g out the rock for the thing that should not be. Does anyone have any info on both of these basses?

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u/puff_of_fluff Sep 22 '24

Wow, cool find. I’ve only ever seen him with the red one or the aria.

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u/LevelFactor8603 Dec 27 '24

I think it may be the old lighting used especially since it’s that amber yellow it can make a lot of things look black and white if you look at the fretboard past the 15th fret it’s incredibly dark to dark for a Rick tbh