In the summer of 82 I was 14 and I saw Metallica a few times with the original line-up, Dave Mustaine on lead and Ron Mcgovney on bass. Metallica was selling those original "Metal Up Your Ass" t-shirts and demo cassettes out of the back of an old green station wagon in the parking lot. One night this unknown band called Slayer was on the same bill. The club was called The Woodstock Concert Theatre in Anaheim, CA. They routinely had no age limit nights. Next door to that club there was another club called Radio City, and one of my guitar buddies saw a young Yngwie Malmsteen there.
I've got a nice story about exactly the same guitar. In the early 90´s, my best friend and I used to work in a guitar shop in Paris. One day, our neighbor next door who had a Metal records shop, ask us to come and help him for translating an interview he had booked with the guys from Slayer to feed the Metal fanzine he was also involved in. We were both huge fan of the band and knew that Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman had a great collection of BC Rich's. So my friend decided to take the guitar to the interview to get the backplate signed off by the Slayer´s gang members. Jeff and Kerry were literally blown away by the beauty, the rareness and the dead stock like immaculate condition of the guitar. They knew how hard to find this limited edition was. It went worse when they did check the serial number on the back of the headstock : N°13 !!! (out of 50, so no 66 or 666) For metal heads like them it was a kind of holy grail ! So they went from just signing fanboys' items to I WANT THIS FUCKING GUITAR ! Kerry was the first to go mad and offered my friend crazy stupid money to buy it. Then Jeff got in with a superior amount. Within the next minutes they were nearly fighting each other like on a crazy auction session , totally ignoring my friend's will to keep the Rico for himself. He just wanted signatures on his guitar. Now you can had to your books that number 13 of this beast have its backplate signed by Tom Arraya, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman and is still owned by a French guy who is still cherishing it as a milestone in his collection . Nice, isn't?
Eh bien si un jour tu veux la vendre à un Parisien qui la chérira, et la jouera en alternance avec une Mockingbird et d'une Eagle koa, fais-moi signe !!
Not including the nobs (which make the tonal range infinite), there are 480 different options. 3x2x2x2x2x2x5 = 480 3-way pickup selector Multiplied by 2 for the first preamp toggle (either off or on) Multiplied by 2 again for the second preamp toggle Multiplied by 2 again for the phase reversal switch (again, it can be either off or on) Multiplied by 2 again for the first coil tap then multiplied by 2 for the second coil tap then multiplied by 5 for the 5 way selector. =480
Watching this vid again, now April. 2022 and man how I miss Mark on G.O.D. yo...no offense to Lemmo just The Agnesi is the GOAT for this show and taught me so much every freaking day watching it. ✌️
Dave mustaine had one but he removed the extra 4 strings, he painted it black later on and it was pawned for drugs by Chris Poland, somewhere out there, Dave’s guitar still exists Edit 7:18 holy hell you made my day with that one, that song was literally written with a BC rich bich perfect 10 by Dave
I'm really skeptical that Dave painted that guitar black. The black guitar had completely different hardware with gold knobs and tuners along with a separate bridge. Since Mustaine got his BC Rich endorsement around that time I'm willing to bet they gave him a different Bich.
@@coolcool8651 When the band started up in 1984 Dave used his same Bich he had in Metallica. Once they got Gar into the band, Gar was a manager at BC Rich which definitely did them some favors when they needed anything from the company like when Dave Ellefson got a brand new bass when he accidentally shaved the neck too far on his mockingbird bass. You can see an image on the internet taken sometime in 1985 with Mustaine sitting by 2 black BC Rich's. He's never come out and said this but it just makes sense to me that they sent out 2 bich's to him and the black 12 string ended up in his hands and the 6 string in the same photo wounded up in Chirs Poland's as the Choose Deth guitar. There's also some images from around this time where Mustaine had a green 6 string and even a BC rich strat but apparently those didn't make it past '85.
Absolutely beautiful. I was first turned on to BC Rich Bich from Paul Chapman of UFO who always played them in his tenure in the band. Such a versatile and sweet sounding guitar. Very unique in both design and function and in Koa!
3 years later, the cubs won the World Series on that faithful night in the 10th inning and being a cubs fan, that was the greatest moment I’ve ever experienced in my life me and my dad went absolutely wild when rizzo made that catch!
Mark always plays perfect songs to showcase whatever guitar he's talking about, I'm guessing he must be able to recommend guitars to folks who give him a set list of stuff they like. A great talent to have in the music business for sure. Always like the videos!
I've got a early '80's BC Rico. I got some info on it. It was made in Japan. There were only 4 colors made and a total of 150 of each color. It's body shape is the Mockingbird. Killer guitar. It played very well, easy to set it up. It sound good through my Marshall half stack.
I'm doing a total rewire of an '80 Mockingbird Koa - an electrical beast. The tones coming from this bass before are incredible. . . . cant wait to hear it with all new components.
07:22 In the early 80's BC Richichs were the guitars of the day, and everyone wanted to play a Bich 10 string, even Dave Mustaine had one, and on the Metallica "No Life 'til Leather" demo, Mustaine might have played with one like that..... 07:22 A inicios de los 80's las BC Richich eran las guitarras de moda, y todos querían tocar con una Bich 10 strings, incluso Dave Mustaine tuvo una, y en el demo de Metallica "No Life 'til Leather", quizas Mustaine haya tocado con una asi.....
I believe the BC Rich Bich was designed by Neal Moser, who worked with Bernie in LA in the 70s. Moser (who is now in his 70s) is still building these out of his shop in Arizona. I think that guitarist extraordinaire Domenic Troiano had a lot of input into the electronics design, which was way ahead of its time for the mid 70s. I was lucky enough to have owned one of Bernie Rich's original hand-build prototype (Seagull?) basses from the early 70s, which I played for my entire 35+ year career. (Thanks Grant @ the 12th Fret!) (I used to get studio calls to play on tracks because that bass sounded so unique.) Dual Hi-A Bartolinis, fretless ebony board, prototype Leo Quan Badass bridge... Very similar electronics with the Varitone and active boost, phase, coil taps, etc. Never had a single issue with the electronics in 35 years.. The hand-built BC Richs from the 70s were unparalleled in quality; the later import models were completely different animals which sadly cheapened the brand name... Even Eric Clapton played a Rich Seagull in the 70s... You can see an ad from Guitar Player Magazine with Clapton playing a Rich Seagull; that ad put BC Rich on the map as a major guitar designer back in the day. (And also caused a shitstorm from Fender threatening to sue, and pull all their ads from Guitar Player, as Eric had a deal with Fender in those days.)
They always looked ridiculous. I remember as a young lad in Lost ANgeles seeing these types of things when new & pop & thinking 'WTF? What a TRAIN WRECK!" Like having the tuners in the body... give me a break. Give it a STEINBERGER type tuning setup or put the freaking tuners on the head ~ jeez, trying 2 save $ using a cheape 'standard' bridge or something = lame. Almost as ridiculous as Bunker (even uglier).
Wow! Nearly 400 total opinions taking in account the options for just one pickup I calculated 40 (10 levels on each knob for both of the switches)options from first two tonal switches mentioned and added the five way switch. Then add those together to get a total of 400 options!
My comment, is thank you for this great guitar. Had one, miss it terribly. I'm one of those that are sick and tired of seeing Les Pauls, Telecasters and Stratocasters. So many great guitars besides those.
I used to own the first 6 string BC Rich Bich and an Eagle. And I'm guessing any of you below who had trouble with theirs had the cheaper mass production models. The original hand made ones like the one in the video were incredible.
I had a 1980 Koa Mockingbird, not supreme, didn't care for the cloud inlays. This is newer than 1980: center neck through is different, higher contrast color, and the pickup trim is also different. The DiMarzios were great pick ups and much more versatile than shown. The coil splitter had some great tones but the Vari-tone only had maybe two or three really great positions. Wonderful layout. I had to have the electronics cavity shielded with copper foil because of noise issues. Played great if you had smaller hands and the Leo Quan Badass bridge made setup a breeze. Neil Geraldo of Pat Benatar fame used an Eagle on occasion and his tone is what made me purchase mine. Wish I had kept it to go along with my Tele as that's enough tone options for me.
Next time Bonamassa comes in you should get a video of him playing the most ridiculously pointy/metal guitar you've got in the store. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would very much like to see that happen. xD
Tribe have nothing to be ashamed of.....they fought every step of the way and this World Series is classic and will go down in history...can't ask for a more exciting series, all the way down to the wire....!
Carlos Garcia - The company founder/namesake Bernie Rico passed away some 10/15 years back and his son has run it since. They still make all their best known models, little changed from the originals.
In the video mark says the one switch is in phase/out phase but some of these were wired with a phase and a series parallel switch usually these have the preamps on a mini 3 way normal in middle and the preamps either up or down and the other 2 minis were the series and phase switches.....I had the opportunity to rewire one of these years ago and it was insane
Cool find! Never knew about these guitars. Gotta say though it is unfortunate that you not show it in it's full 10-string state and play that. That must have been possible right, I mean you wouldn't showcase a 12 string guitar but with only 6 strings?
Aerosmith "Home Sweet Home" Lyrics I'm dreaming tonight I'm leaving back home Right! Take me back to a south Tallahassee Down cross the bridge to my sweet sassafrassy Can't stand up on my feet in the city Got to get back to the real nitty gritty Yes sir, no sir Don't come close to my Home sweet home Can't catch no dose Of my hot tail poon tang sweetheart Sweathog ready to make a silk purse From a J. Paul Getty and his ear With her face in a beer Home sweet home Get out in the field Put the mule in the stable Ma she's a cookin' Put the eats on the table Hate's in the city And my love's in the meadow Hands on the plow And my feets in the ghetto Stand up, sit down Don't do nothing Ain't no good when boss man's Stuffin' it down their throats With paper notes As babies cry While cities lie at their feet When you're rockin' the street Home sweet home Mama, take me home sweet home I was a last child Just a punk in the street
Many people only know BC Rich as a company that makes junky $500 guitars. But these are all handmade in small batches by Bernie Rico Sr. from the mid 70's through the mid 80's. BC Rich, Hamer, and Dean were all extremely well made and highly collectible guitars. I have many of each, wouldn't trade them for 10 of their current models.
@MarkAgnesi Is it just me or you put the head of that beauty dangerously close to the wooden shelf we see on the right of the sreen ? In several videos of yours I just watched I got this impression. Would be a shame if... well I don't want to imagine ^^ watch from 1:24 Great videos and wonderfull guitars tho keep it up ! :)
first time I remember seeing BC Rich was Neil Geraldo playing with Pat Benatar on Solid Gold, or something. I was amazed because it looked so different and the 4 tuners at the bottom blew my mid. it's was the same two tone wood as this.
Assuming each knob can be though of in increments of ten, meaning that there are 63 options, you can get 1.982608315e87 variations. That means 1.982608315 but with the decimal moved 87 places to the right. That's a lot of options.
George Kooymans from the Dutch band Golden Earring was very fond of the BC Rich 10 strings in the mid to late 80s. considering they where quite well known for extended versions of 8 Miles High I suppose it's not too surprising
My dream guitar....well along with the overly expensive B.C. Rich Stealth Chuck Schuldiner signature guitar...heck i would take a regular one if i could lol awesome find!
No need to pout, the cubbies ended their drought, and we can all scream. Go cubs go, go cubs go, hey Chicago what do you say? The cubs won the world series yesterday!
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In the summer of 82 I was 14 and I saw Metallica a few times with the original line-up, Dave Mustaine on lead and Ron Mcgovney on bass. Metallica was selling those original "Metal Up Your Ass" t-shirts and demo cassettes out of the back of an old green station wagon in the parking lot. One night this unknown band called Slayer was on the same bill. The club was called The Woodstock Concert Theatre in Anaheim, CA. They routinely had no age limit nights. Next door to that club there was another club called Radio City, and one of my guitar buddies saw a young Yngwie Malmsteen there.
Maths genius here. I've calculated exactly 1 metric shit ton of tonal variations.
Rellay good
I've got a nice story about exactly the same guitar.
In the early 90´s, my best friend and I used to work in a guitar shop in Paris. One day, our neighbor next door who had a Metal records shop, ask us to come and help him for translating an interview he had booked with the guys from Slayer to feed the Metal fanzine he was also involved in.
We were both huge fan of the band and knew that Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman had a great collection of BC Rich's. So my friend decided to take the guitar to the interview to get the backplate signed off by the Slayer´s gang members.
Jeff and Kerry were literally blown away by the beauty, the rareness and the dead stock like immaculate condition of the guitar. They knew how hard to find this limited edition was. It went worse when they did check the serial number on the back of the headstock : N°13 !!! (out of 50, so no 66 or 666)
For metal heads like them it was a kind of holy grail !
So they went from just signing fanboys' items to I WANT THIS FUCKING GUITAR !
Kerry was the first to go mad and offered my friend crazy stupid money to buy it. Then Jeff got in with a superior amount. Within the next minutes they were nearly fighting each other like on a crazy auction session , totally ignoring my friend's will to keep the Rico for himself.
He just wanted signatures on his guitar.
Now you can had to your books that number 13 of this beast have its backplate signed by Tom Arraya, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman and is still owned by a French guy who is still cherishing it as a milestone in his collection . Nice, isn't?
Cool story dude
Eh bien si un jour tu veux la vendre à un Parisien qui la chérira, et la jouera en alternance avec une Mockingbird et d'une Eagle koa, fais-moi signe !!
Dude that’s awesome
if you make shirts that say "all EQs at noon, little bit of reverb" I'm sure many of us would buy them. especially me
You called it! They gott those now!
hahahahahah
markagnesi.com/shop/all-eqs-at-noon-shirt/ exact shirt lol
Hugo Palo don’t think I’ll ever sell mine waited too long for one. Check my channel sometime
@@DSTaylor69 Why would you sell your shirt? Who the hell would buy it? I'd just go down to a print shop and have it made. It's just a shirt...
This is absolutely my dream guitar. Dave Mustaine being my biggest influence, of course.
You, sir, have good taste.
Carlos Vera megadeth is great
Nice, Megadeth is an awesome band and Dave Mustaine is a great guitarist (One of my favourite guitarists and influences)
poor.
BC rich is a shit guitar company
Not including the nobs (which make the tonal range infinite), there are 480 different options.
3x2x2x2x2x2x5 = 480
3-way pickup selector
Multiplied by 2 for the first preamp toggle (either off or on)
Multiplied by 2 again for the second preamp toggle
Multiplied by 2 again for the phase reversal switch (again, it can be either off or on)
Multiplied by 2 again for the first coil tap
then multiplied by 2 for the second coil tap
then multiplied by 5 for the 5 way selector.
=480
Yay he mentioned Dave mustaine yay I'm happpy
So hard to believe that this beautiful piece of artwork was constructed 80 years before the birth of Jesus Christ . Unbelievable
You must be fun at parties.
I think its a shame that JC even needed to be born after this miracle of instrument design...
@@pittbrat7963 what did he said I couldn't see jc here
I have an original BC Rich Seagull and it is my current favorite guitar. The build quality is phenomenal and yes hand carved.
Watching this vid again, now April. 2022 and man how I miss Mark on G.O.D. yo...no offense to Lemmo just The Agnesi is the GOAT for this show and taught me so much every freaking day watching it.
✌️
Awesome video, presenter and guitar
Dave mustaine had one but he removed the extra 4 strings, he painted it black later on and it was pawned for drugs by Chris Poland, somewhere out there, Dave’s guitar still exists
Edit
7:18 holy hell you made my day with that one, that song was literally written with a BC rich bich perfect 10 by Dave
I'm really skeptical that Dave painted that guitar black. The black guitar had completely different hardware with gold knobs and tuners along with a separate bridge. Since Mustaine got his BC Rich endorsement around that time I'm willing to bet they gave him a different Bich.
were u get this info from ?
@@coolcool8651 When the band started up in 1984 Dave used his same Bich he had in Metallica. Once they got Gar into the band, Gar was a manager at BC Rich which definitely did them some favors when they needed anything from the company like when Dave Ellefson got a brand new bass when he accidentally shaved the neck too far on his mockingbird bass. You can see an image on the internet taken sometime in 1985 with Mustaine sitting by 2 black BC Rich's. He's never come out and said this but it just makes sense to me that they sent out 2 bich's to him and the black 12 string ended up in his hands and the 6 string in the same photo wounded up in Chirs Poland's as the Choose Deth guitar. There's also some images from around this time where Mustaine had a green 6 string and even a BC rich strat but apparently those didn't make it past '85.
@@maplesalt1482 fuck yeah thx, never knew abt the gar thing
@@coolcool8651 Yeah Chris Poland also built guitars for BC Rich in the 80s
I had the ad for this hanging up on my wall in 80, maybe 81, from a guitar magazine. Totally wanted one. Never happened.
That is a REAL BC Rich!
You can find them now for around $3,000 . . . no problem, right?
Absolutely beautiful. I was first turned on to BC Rich Bich from Paul Chapman of UFO who always played them in his tenure in the band. Such a versatile and sweet sounding guitar. Very unique in both design and function and in Koa!
If Dave Mustaine had one in Metallica , that would date back to 80 - 81 , somewhere around there ?
David Dale he said 81 I think
actually it's from the 70's, look up guitarnerd's vid on weirdest 70's guitars
Dave kept it until circa 1988 really wish he kept playing it
Roughly 87 I'd say. Chris Poland sold it for heroin money.
the 1970's?
Mark Agnesi: *has a 10 string*
Also Mark: Let's just use 6 strings!
Perfect choice of demo riff !!!
I remember when they first came out in the late 70s and early 80s and I drooled over that guitar.
gregg4164 me too
3 years later, the cubs won the World Series on that faithful night in the 10th inning and being a cubs fan, that was the greatest moment I’ve ever experienced in my life me and my dad went absolutely wild when rizzo made that catch!
Mark always plays perfect songs to showcase whatever guitar he's talking about, I'm guessing he must be able to recommend guitars to folks who give him a set list of stuff they like. A great talent to have in the music business for sure. Always like the videos!
I've got a early '80's BC Rico. I got some info on it. It was made in Japan. There were only 4 colors made and a total of 150 of each color. It's body shape is the Mockingbird. Killer guitar. It played very well, easy to set it up. It sound good through my Marshall half stack.
What a beautiful huitar. I have 1982 BC Rich Koa Mockingbird and it sounds awesome as well. Great rare guitars.
Perfect ending song for that particular guitar.
Cliff'em All! was so great... Watched it probably 100 times in middle school
I've owned a maple bodied Bich since 1982 - really versatile, and they play wonderfully.
I'm doing a total rewire of an '80 Mockingbird Koa - an electrical beast. The tones coming from this bass before are incredible. . . . cant wait to hear it with all new components.
07:22 In the early 80's BC Richichs were the guitars of the day, and everyone wanted to play a Bich 10 string, even Dave Mustaine had one, and on the Metallica "No Life 'til Leather" demo, Mustaine might have played with one like that.....
07:22 A inicios de los 80's las BC Richich eran las guitarras de moda, y todos querían tocar con una Bich 10 strings, incluso Dave Mustaine tuvo una, y en el demo de Metallica "No Life 'til Leather", quizas Mustaine haya tocado con una asi.....
Brooo I want to get one of these and put Mustaine’s thrash factor pickups in.
This is the first time I've seen one in a high definition video. It really is a beautiful guitar.
My favorite guitar design of the 80's!
THE FOUR HORSEMEN 👍👍👍👍👍
KEG LYPH MAFYA mechanics haha.
KEG LYPH MAFYA mechanix is way better
they litterally are the same
best song on Kill Em' All
When you play it on *that* guitar, it's the Mechanix
This guy is greatly amusing to watch, and nice to see someone who knows what they are talking about.
aw. come on tune it up with 10
Revelry 1969 ikr that is the whole purpose of a 10 string
Almost nobody played it with the full ten strings, everyone cut the extra four strings and played it as a 6
Cubs are world champs! Celebrating here at Chicago Music Exchange! Go Cub go!
I believe the BC Rich Bich was designed by Neal Moser, who worked with Bernie in LA in the 70s. Moser (who is now in his 70s) is still building these out of his shop in Arizona. I think that guitarist extraordinaire Domenic Troiano had a lot of input into the electronics design, which was way ahead of its time for the mid 70s. I was lucky enough to have owned one of Bernie Rich's original hand-build prototype (Seagull?) basses from the early 70s, which I played for my entire 35+ year career. (Thanks Grant @ the 12th Fret!) (I used to get studio calls to play on tracks because that bass sounded so unique.) Dual Hi-A Bartolinis, fretless ebony board, prototype Leo Quan Badass bridge... Very similar electronics with the Varitone and active boost, phase, coil taps, etc. Never had a single issue with the electronics in 35 years.. The hand-built BC Richs from the 70s were unparalleled in quality; the later import models were completely different animals which sadly cheapened the brand name...
Even Eric Clapton played a Rich Seagull in the 70s... You can see an ad from Guitar Player Magazine with Clapton playing a Rich Seagull; that ad put BC Rich on the map as a major guitar designer back in the day. (And also caused a shitstorm from Fender threatening to sue, and pull all their ads from Guitar Player, as Eric had a deal with Fender in those days.)
Pure looks wise, that is one of the most beautiful guitars I have seen.
Crazi Agnesi, showIn' us a beautiful piece, for a change
Yes! Been waiting on an old B.C. Rich
I'm 3 months old and I know what a VHS tape is
That is a drop dead gorgeous axe. Off the charts!!
They always looked ridiculous. I remember as a young lad in Lost ANgeles seeing these types of things when new & pop & thinking 'WTF? What a TRAIN WRECK!" Like having the tuners in the body... give me a break. Give it a STEINBERGER type tuning setup or put the freaking tuners on the head ~ jeez, trying 2 save $ using a cheape 'standard' bridge or something = lame. Almost as ridiculous as Bunker (even uglier).
I hate its looks but id love to try one
Wow! Nearly 400 total opinions taking in account the options for just one pickup I calculated 40 (10 levels on each knob for both of the switches)options from first two tonal switches mentioned and added the five way switch. Then add those together to get a total of 400 options!
My comment, is thank you for this great guitar. Had one, miss it terribly. I'm one of those that are sick and tired of seeing Les Pauls, Telecasters and Stratocasters. So many great guitars besides those.
man, this guitar is so beautiful and unique...
I used to own the first 6 string BC Rich Bich and an Eagle. And I'm guessing any of you below who had trouble with theirs had the cheaper mass production models. The original hand made ones like the one in the video were incredible.
I don't play guitar. I don't know why it came up on my list but, what a blast from the past. Thumbs up!!
It's great to see that Mr. Agnesi takes our petitions into good account. thanks mate!!
Wow! that is a nice one
I watch these videos just to hear you play ! You rock brother !
Does anyone know where I can buy a guitar like this one? I had to sell my old one to buy a car and would love to have one again
Played some of the early models of these guitars. Killer neck profile and sound.
I had a 1980 Koa Mockingbird, not supreme, didn't care for the cloud inlays. This is newer than 1980: center neck through is different, higher contrast color, and the pickup trim is also different. The DiMarzios were great pick ups and much more versatile than shown. The coil splitter had some great tones but the Vari-tone only had maybe two or three really great positions. Wonderful layout. I had to have the electronics cavity shielded with copper foil because of noise issues. Played great if you had smaller hands and the Leo Quan Badass bridge made setup a breeze. Neil Geraldo of Pat Benatar fame used an Eagle on occasion and his tone is what made me purchase mine. Wish I had kept it to go along with my Tele as that's enough tone options for me.
my brother has an early 80s american made Rich Bich but the 6 string. same controls same awesome cloud inlays but it's hot pink!
Been stoked for this one all day. Bizarre instrument!
how about a mosrite Monday, you could do it tele Tuesday since you're always short on those.
Next time Bonamassa comes in you should get a video of him playing the most ridiculously pointy/metal guitar you've got in the store. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would very much like to see that happen. xD
Lol
Eh he's a hack
Bonnasshole
Tribe have nothing to be ashamed of.....they fought every step of the way and this World Series is classic and will go down in history...can't ask for a more exciting series, all the way down to the wire....!
It's funny, for the past week I've been wondering what happened to BC Rich. I haven't seen anything but warlocks and mockingbirds in stores.
Carlos Garcia - The company founder/namesake Bernie Rico passed away some 10/15 years back and his son has run it since. They still make all their best known models, little changed from the originals.
Carlos Garcia There's an interesting rig rundown on the tube, with Twiggy from M.M.. He does speak upon your query, as I do recall. Rock on!
In the video mark says the one switch is in phase/out phase but some of these were wired with a phase and a series parallel switch usually these have the preamps on a mini 3 way normal in middle and the preamps either up or down and the other 2 minis were the series and phase switches.....I had the opportunity to rewire one of these years ago and it was insane
Very cool very cool.. bc rich guitars always looked cool I thought.. never had one but I loved there look..
Hey Mark, don't forget the
lovely Lita Ford!
Amazing guitar. Always wanted a vintage one.
Last Child from Aerosmith - loved that, I was just listening to that song earlier today
Cool find! Never knew about these guitars. Gotta say though it is unfortunate that you not show it in it's full 10-string state and play that. That must have been possible right, I mean you wouldn't showcase a 12 string guitar but with only 6 strings?
Not big on bc rich, but that thing Is so cool! Really nice tone as well :)
Aerosmith "Home Sweet Home" Lyrics
I'm dreaming tonight
I'm leaving back home
Right!
Take me back to a south Tallahassee
Down cross the bridge to my sweet sassafrassy
Can't stand up on my feet in the city
Got to get back to the real nitty gritty
Yes sir, no sir
Don't come close to my
Home sweet home
Can't catch no dose
Of my hot tail poon tang sweetheart
Sweathog ready to make a silk purse
From a J. Paul Getty and his ear
With her face in a beer
Home sweet home
Get out in the field
Put the mule in the stable
Ma she's a cookin'
Put the eats on the table
Hate's in the city
And my love's in the meadow
Hands on the plow
And my feets in the ghetto
Stand up, sit down
Don't do nothing
Ain't no good when boss man's
Stuffin' it down their throats
With paper notes
As babies cry
While cities lie at their feet
When you're rockin' the street
Home sweet home
Mama, take me home sweet home
I was a last child
Just a punk in the street
Many people only know BC Rich as a company that makes junky $500 guitars. But these are all handmade in small batches by Bernie Rico Sr. from the mid 70's through the mid 80's. BC Rich, Hamer, and Dean were all extremely well made and highly collectible guitars. I have many of each, wouldn't trade them for 10 of their current models.
Suzi Quattro video "rock hard" featured these in red. Badass
this is the most viewed official guitar of the day 👍🏼
its also my favorite
Lita Ford also played these, damn cool guitar.
Okoi Jones in Bölzer plays one of these beasts. He really utilizes it to the maximum.
lita ford uses this guitar in the video with ozzy "close my eyes forever"
MrMisterMan she had her own BC Rich model made for her. Different.
Has this sold yet?
do you guys still have this for sale??
damn what's the song from around 6:50???
@MarkAgnesi Is it just me or you put the head of that beauty dangerously close to the wooden shelf we see on the right of the sreen ? In several videos of yours I just watched I got this impression. Would be a shame if... well I don't want to imagine ^^
watch from 1:24
Great videos and wonderfull guitars tho keep it up ! :)
Aymeric Hantin oh ye of little faith
How do you tune the harmony strings on this guitar
Or how do you take the harmony strings off
first time I remember seeing BC Rich was Neil Geraldo playing with Pat Benatar on Solid Gold, or something. I was amazed because it looked so different and the 4 tuners at the bottom blew my mid. it's was the same two tone wood as this.
Assuming each knob can be though of in increments of ten, meaning that there are 63 options, you can get 1.982608315e87 variations. That means 1.982608315 but with the decimal moved 87 places to the right. That's a lot of options.
George Kooymans from the Dutch band Golden Earring was very fond of the BC Rich 10 strings in the mid to late 80s.
considering they where quite well known for extended versions of 8 Miles High I suppose it's not too surprising
What a beauty. Def a grail piece
I love it 😍 i want one 🤟
Cool guitar, great video
My dream guitar....well along with the overly expensive B.C. Rich Stealth Chuck Schuldiner signature guitar...heck i would take a regular one if i could lol awesome find!
Subscribed to this channel before watching one second of videos... How could a channel about rare guitars be bad?!?
Man that sounds crunchy!!
Songs:
Neck Pickup: Nightrain - Guns 'N' Roses
Middle Pickup: Last Child - Aerosmith
Bridge Pickup: The Four Horsemen - Metallica/The Mechanix - Megadeth
sounds really good
No need to pout, the cubbies ended their drought, and we can all scream.
Go cubs go, go cubs go, hey Chicago what do you say? The cubs won the world series yesterday!
your show is great
only taking into consideration the knobs on the full on and full off position, you could get 4800 different tonal variations from a set up like this.
I can "only" get it to 480 different variations with all knobs on max...
if each knob has 10 notches, you can get up to 36 million
Hey love Guitar of the day😀would be cool if you guyz did a double neck...thumbs up from Scotland
How much. And can you ship it to the uk. Thanks I'll buy it now
Thanks Mark :)
As always great song choices, very axe-specific. And some impressive virtuosity exhibited over the course of the Guitar of the Day Video "library".
whats a cluster fword of stuff , is that an option on all bc rich guitars and what exactly does it do
I believe Lita Ford Played one with Her Ozzy Duet ..
Todd PYYKOLA Lita played a Warlock.
Joseph Larrisey She played a Bich double neck on Close My Eyes Forever, and has a single neck Bich in the Gotta Let Go music video
Love the Koa body wings. Gotta be a heavy guitar though. Koa is so dense. But a great tone wood.
I have a 83 mockingbird bass
It has almost the exact same controls
Unique monster rock bass
One of the guitars I HAVE to have!
Oh I think I'll wear my leather jacket with metal zippers and snaps while I play this rare beauty.