hey everybody
wondering how a guitar ended up with a name like Bongo...?
searches haven't revealed a clue so far....
thanks!
here's my 2013
hey everybody
wondering how a guitar ended up with a name like Bongo...?
searches haven't revealed a clue so far....
thanks!
here's my 2013
When Sterling went to the BMW Design Group and they decided they could make something together, the code name for the project was "Bongo".
Sterling decided he liked it and kept it as the name for the basses.
StingRay 4HH. SapphireBlack.2006
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StingRay 4H. ”SunBlue”. 2005
Bongo 4H. Sapphire Black. 2005
Bongo 5HH. Firemist Purple. 2019
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When you play one the name becomes "OhBoy". It has some of the same letters in it.
apparently this is a family of Bongos' haven't a clue whether they're active or passive but I could see a fiver in that colour...I mean there's a Zebra wood out there somewhere so....
thanks for the info I saw "boNgo" somewhere associated with the bmw team but lost the link.
Big Poppa also said that when he decided to keep the name, "A lot of eggs were thrown at me."
It certainly wasn't like the other basses in the line at the time!
well, eggs as a percussion instrument and bongo as a drum...
I see the light !
or hear it i guess
glad they went with the design it took (b**ls) nerve
Last edited by timplog; 03-14-2019 at 12:07 PM.
Hah. You throw eggs at Big Poppa and he will probably make an omelet. Well, he cooked up something different with the Bongo and it took a lot of years for me to appreciate it but now they will pry my Bongo out of my cold, dead hands.
Always liked the name Bongo. And they are my favorite kind of MM bass!
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