Officer Bukowski wrote:My favorite color (for the 4003 at least) was the tourquoise color.
THAT'S...
well, it can look good, though I tend to skip anything in turquoise myself. But I can easily imagine it could be actually pretty nice as a burst. Perhaps.
One thing about the other-than-black finishes is that they speak up the instrument shape on stage. A friends has a genuine Black Star Rickenbacker bass, black parts on black body and some such extras that just almost loses the Rickenbacker aesthetics because of this. Of course it's fucking awesome! It's über cool concept in a Gothic and/or Spinal Tap way, having reversed the stock parts color scheme for more dark looks
but that body shape jsut doesn't show so good, anymore. The opposite color pickguard actually enhances the bodyshape, just as much as the binding does.
It COULD be somemother color, too, like tortoise, I think. Or aluminum.