View Poll Results: Please help me to decide colour my BA5SSS colour combo.

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  • Candy Red with white pg / maple board

    35 54.69%

  • Black with white pg / maple board

    14 21.88%

  • Blue Pearl with white pg / maple board

    18 28.13%
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Fran's Big Al 5 colour choice poll!!! Vote Vote Vote

This is a discussion on Fran's Big Al 5 colour choice poll!!! Vote Vote Vote within the Music Man Basses forums, part of the Gear Talk category; Candy red, but it really ought to have a pearl guard. My CR Bongo has a cream pearl aftermarket guard ...

  1. 03-08-2010, 07:30 AM #16
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    Candy red, but it really ought to have a pearl guard.

    My CR Bongo has a cream pearl aftermarket guard (cream pearl is not available from EBMM... it's yellower than Vintage Pearl), and it's extraordinarily classy.



    I wish the basses were available in the same colors as the guitars. Trans orange/tort looks really, really nice on the Al body shape. I know this first-hand. I've got pictures, but they're too far OT to post in this thread. If you're interested, click through....

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  2. 03-08-2010, 09:05 AM #17
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    I'm a complete sucker for red...do it!
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  3. 03-08-2010, 09:11 AM #18
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    Just sayin'.

    bongoBbongoObongoNbongoGbongoObongo

    AL AL AL AL ALALALALALALA LA LA LA LA

    Desert Gold F13843 05 Bongo 5 HHp
    Blue Dawn F11199 07 LE Bongo 5 Hp fretless
    Candy Red F23343 08 Bongo 5 H
    Tangerine Pearl F28251 2011 Big Al 5 SSS

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  4. 03-08-2010, 11:01 AM #19
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    Thanks adouglas, love the pics of your C.A.R. Bongo and that BIGAL you just showed me.

    I see that most people share the same preference as my no.1 i.e. C.A.R. plus mape board and white pickguard, though I am not keen on the mother of pearl look whether it's creamed or not. For me I prefer immacualte white.
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  5. 03-08-2010, 11:04 AM #20
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    My $.02... blue w/maple fretboard & abalone pickguard...
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    GW, I agree that mint is the coolest for the Big Al. Do what I did...Offer to kill for it.

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  7. 03-08-2010, 11:13 AM #22
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    Don't really care for the CAR or the blue So for me black with tort guard...Hands down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grand Wazoo View Post
    I see that most people share the same preference as my no.1 i.e. C.A.R. plus mape board and white pickguard,
    Actually, I'm not a fan of maple boards (they show dirt so easily) but you didn't give us a chance to vote for rosewood.....
    bongoBbongoObongoNbongoGbongoObongo

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    Desert Gold F13843 05 Bongo 5 HHp
    Blue Dawn F11199 07 LE Bongo 5 Hp fretless
    Candy Red F23343 08 Bongo 5 H
    Tangerine Pearl F28251 2011 Big Al 5 SSS

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    Candy Red with a Black PG would also look nice...
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    Quote Originally Posted by AREA View Post
    Candy Red with a Black PG would also look nice...
    True. Very classy.

    I've got a black PG for that CR Bongo, but the minute I saw photos from our first gig I swapped it for the cream pearl one to make the bass "pop" visually.

    Dark-colored instruments disappear on stage, and EBMMs are too good-looking to hide (unless you're into the whole "none more black" stealth thing, that is).

    So for me it's always going to be contrasting pickguards and finishes.
    bongoBbongoObongoNbongoGbongoObongo

    AL AL AL AL ALALALALALALA LA LA LA LA

    Desert Gold F13843 05 Bongo 5 HHp
    Blue Dawn F11199 07 LE Bongo 5 Hp fretless
    Candy Red F23343 08 Bongo 5 H
    Tangerine Pearl F28251 2011 Big Al 5 SSS

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  11. 03-08-2010, 12:09 PM #26
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    candy red does it for the big al!
    just go look at oldmanmusic's bass...

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    I will go with the black/white pg
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    Black & White, none more classic...
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    Candy is a classy colour for the Big AL suites it well, but personally i voted for the blue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adouglas View Post
    Actually, I'm not a fan of maple boards (they show dirt so easily) but you didn't give us a chance to vote for rosewood.....
    That's because I had already discounted rosewood, I am a maple man. I only get rosewood when I have no choice as it happened for the Bongo and the 25th which was a one off offer I couldn't refuse. But now that I have a choice same as I did when all those years ago (10+) i orderd my stingray5 I will go for maple and be happy with it.

    Oh and.... I would have also killed for a seafoam green but if that would mean sleeping with the Boss, hahaha, he can "fugget about it! I'd much rather have one in "banana yellow with purple polka dots" instead! HAHAHAHAHA
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