B.C. Rich Bich - Golden Era 1974-1985 - USA Handmade w/ DiMarzios & Kahler

With this video, I pay tribute to B.C. Rich's golden era (1974-1985) and luthier Neal Moser. I play a B.C. Rich Bich Six guitar made in 1983 in El Monte, California. Back then, founder Bernardo Chavez Rico (R.I.P.) was running the company, and Neal Moser was in charge of design, assembly and setup at B.C. Rich's custom shop.

The Bich I play on this video features DiMarzio pickups (with active electronics) and a Kahler 2300 tremolo. I'm using a Line 6 Spider IV amp and Dunlop strings.

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[Rebirth1349]

Question: the Bich you are playing has a borderline ridiculous amount of knobs; do the different configurations actually make drastic changes to the tonal characteristics of the guitar, or is it more or less for minor tweaks?

Great vids, btw!

[dmometalguitar]

@Rebirth1349 Yes, the guitar can have drastic sound changes, particularly if you play in clean mode. The coil split switches and the varitone knob create some really nice sounds for clean chords. For distortion, I prefer the default configuration (without the coil split/varitone), which gives me a real heavy metal sound. If I mess with the controls with distortion, I get that grunge-like distortion that I'm not into too much.

[dylankrolick]

werent BC Rich guitars the first non traditional shape guitars? a friend told me ibanez were.

[dmometalguitar]

@dylankrolick Good question. The main thing, in my opinion, is not too much who was first, but the guitar shape itself. BCR introduced an amazing collection of pretty insane shapes - Bich, Warlock, Mockingbird, Stealth, Ironbird, etc.

[metallica10028]

dave mustain used this guitar in the early days of metallica

[teezakar3a]

If I had that Guitar I would write in my will that I be Buried with it.

[rarivas]

@dmometalguitar A little off topic, but Bernie built some great flamenco guitars in the early 70s. He built one originally for Sabicas, but Sabicas bought the others and I ended up buying that awesome 1971 flamenco which I still have. It's loud as hell without electricity or amps!!!

[teamvibralux]

Can you drop tune this guitar without buzzing noise?

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[blackfeathervids]

i have a black bich :P

[themanishkumar123]

hey plz tell how u play so insane fast .?????? how to improve alternate picking?

[TheRealSonicYouth]

The guitar player for Danzig used this. Nice axe

[wxdanwx]

@metallica10028 he used the 10 string one without the extra stings, he also painted it black later on

[MrManiac62]

Fucking nice looking guitar! BTW how did you get the guitar?

[vhEDDIEvh]

@metallica10028 he used it up till 1987 even after peace sells, then he switched to jackson after chris and gar got fired :o

[0ZAZU]

@metallica10028 his was not the BC Rich 6 his was a BC Rich Bich 10 Supreme all the same knobs, same body, but with 10 strings and no tremolo. But i LOVE MUSTAINE