FLCL

[Agent00Soul]

I'm not sure if anyone knows about this, but there is a bizarre anime that's shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim called Fooly-Cooly (or FLCL). One of the main characters is an eccentric alien policewoman named Haruko Haruhara whose weapon of choice is a blue, left-handed Rickenbacker 4001 named "Ricks." Here's the wiki:

"Haruko Haruhara (ハルハラ・ハル子, Haruhara Haruko?) is an energetic, spontaneous hotpink-haired female from outer-space, and investigator for the Galactic Space Patrol Brotherhood/Stellar Fraternity. Mamimi observes that she looks at least twenty years old, though she claims to be 19. But it is impossible to know, especially since Haruko is not even human. She wears a bright red coat, black pants, white boots, and lemon chiffon colored scarf. She rides a sunglow Piaggio Vespa SS 180 (becoming known as The Wasp Woman, a pun on the word Vespa, which means wasp) and wields a navy blue, left-handed Rickenbacker bass guitar model 4001 (similar to the 4001S used by Paul McCartney, whom she mentions in episode five, but hers has a lefty neck with a righty body). It can be used as an axe-like melee weapon, shoot bullets, act as a rocket launcher, and is used several times to open N.O. channels. She also seems to use it to fly. She leaves it for a more powerful, double-necked guitar/bass (a fusion of Naota's Gibson Flying V and Atomsk's 1961 Gibson EB-0 that Naota creates while harnessing Atomsk's power) when she departs from Earth in episode six."

I love this show, but I am a cartoon nut. In case anyone's interested, there's more info here:
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/flcl/index.html
http://www.flclw.com/

[pjmuck]

It can be used as an axe-like melee weapon, shoot bullets, act as a rocket launcher, and is used several times to open N.O. channels. She also seems to use it to fly.

But can she actually play it?

I see she's got a toaster PUP in the neck position. She knows her stuff. Whoever designed this show also took some attention to detail.

[Jeroen]

So that's what it's from!
I have been wondering for quite a while where a member of basschat.co.uk got this avatar from:

[Jeroen]

Whoever designed this show also took some attention to detail.

Yes, but what on earth made him draw a whammy bar in that first picture?
I didn't notice it at first, but on second glance it suddenly struck my eye.

[Agent00Soul]

But can she actually play it?

Yup, but it's more "Hate To Say I Told You So" than "Silly Love Songs"

[Agent00Soul]

Whoever designed this show also took some attention to detail.

Yes, but what on earth made him draw a whammy bar in that first picture?
I didn't notice it at first, but on second glance it suddenly struck my eye.

I noticed that too. I think it's because that image is from the preliminary character art. During the finished show, there is no whammy bar.

[leftybassman392]

Is it just me, or is it strung upside down - AustinLeftyBass?

[danomite64]

[leftybassman392]

So, er, not left handed then...