PING MUSIC MAN NUT 20th BFR dealers announced

[Big Poppa]

Hello everyone

REMEMBER THE BLUE BURST 20TH ANNIVERSARY BFR WITH EBONY AND THE 20 YEAR OLD FIRST TEN SERIAL NUMBERS?

Here is where they are going

Serial #1 Dargie...because he is my favorite son.....ok because he has done such a good job of instigating all of these cool pieces...

2-9..Dubaldo Music, Bass Central, Guitar Center, Musicians friend.....Intl Mogar, Italy, Musik Meyer Germany, Strings and Things England, Kanda Shokai Japan

10 Big Poppa. It is really going in the vault at work

WE have no idea how they will be sold. I have a feeling ebay one at a time..They retail for $7,500

 

[Beth]

I don't think anyone's gonna be able to pry these out of the international guys' hands. One of them may be a museum piece soon... but hey, now you guys know where to look right?

 

[Colin]

what about me? I've been a loyal dealer for....

 

[bovinehost]

I am REALLY glad to see Pete DuBaldo getting one!

Congrats, Dooby Baldo!

 

[Aussie Mark]

Intl Mogar, Italy, Musik Meyer Germany, Strings and Things England, Kanda Shokai Japan

No love for the southern half of the planet?

 

[Musicman Nut]

Hello everyone

REMEMBER THE BLUE BURST 20TH ANNIVERSARY BFR WITH EBONY AND THE 20 YEAR OLD FIRST TEN SERIAL NUMBERS?

Here is where they are going

Serial #1 Dargie...because he is my favorite son.....ok because he has done such a good job of instigating all of these cool pieces...

2-9..Dubaldo Music, Bass Central, Guitar Center, Musicians friend.....Intl Mogar, Italy, Musik Meyer Germany, Strings and Things England, Kanda Shokai Japan

10 Big Poppa. It is really going in the vault at work

WE have no idea how they will be sold. I have a feeling ebay one at a time..They retail for $7,500

Thanks Mr. Poppa

 

[PocketGroove82]

i had a dream (nightmare?) last night that the Blue BFRs were being sold by Musician's Friend and the retail price was $8,888.

REALLY, I DID! <shudders>

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

I am REALLY glad to see Pete DuBaldo getting one!

Congrats, Dooby Baldo!

Thanks, Jack! I saw the #1 bass at NAMM and just about went to heaven. I can't wait to see it arrive, whenever that may be.

 

[MingusBASS]

I fold.

 

[bovinehost]

I fold.

Mongoose! Don't fold!

Listen, I know you're kidding, but a word about 'folding'.

Sometimes with all these fabulous BFR instruments buzzing around, it's tempting to think about folding. I myself at first thought, "Whoa! BFR! I can't wait! I want this one and that one and one of those...."

But reality set in soon enough. One of those blue SR5s that BP was talking about will retail for $7500 bucks or so, and considering how few of them there are, they might well sell ABOVE retail. Dude, that just isn't reality for me, the role model for lunch-pail bassists the world over.

So if you're in the same boat, let's live vicariously through the forum. I just enjoy seeing what the design crew is coming up with and realizing that we, the Forumites, are watching what may well be a fairly significant change taking place at Ernie Ball Music Man. How cool is that?

(I'm a bit of a geek about such things, so it may well be cooler for me than it is for many others, I know this.)

I'll enjoy the feeding frenzy over these basses, but can't join in. I mean, I have nine or ten basses and with used prices what they are, I could sell almost all of them and maybe have enough for one of the BFR 20th SR5s, right? But I enjoy having my nine or ten basses, dammit.

Don't fold. None of you guys need to fold. We can still get what I consider one hell of a value on a SR5 or a Bongo or a SR4 or a Sterling. I have some pretty cool and definitely rare and WAY sentimental basses, but last night I picked up my off-the-shelf Candy Red Bongo 5 single H and realized that I simply do not have a better bass than that.

And I didn't have to sell the wife into white slavery (or, well, latina slavery) or deplete my stable of playthings in order to have that bass.

I have basses that cost more, basses that were free, basses that have martini inlays, basses with flames, but if they all went away and I were left with that basic red Bongo single H, I'd be grateful to have it.

So, on the BFRs: for those who can afford it, excellent!

For the rest of us, we can still enjoy it vicariously and keep right on playing the best basses we could ever ask for.

Now I need a martini.

Jack

 

[Colin]

well said Jack

 

[adouglas]

Jack, I've been making my living as a writer for well over 25 years.

My profession is expressing ideas via the written word. I take great pride in my skill at doing so.

You're a better writer than I am.

I want to meet you in person someday.

(Actually, I don't give a rip about meeting you. I want to meet your wife. She's hot. )

 

[bovinehost]

You're a better writer than I am.

I rather doubt it. I'm good for the quickie, the in and out, the left jab, but when it comes to long-term writing, I fade.

This is probably as a result of having to write tactical intelligence reports for the better part of twenty years. Wham, bam, thank you, admiral. (And aim the missiles THERE.) That sort of thing.

I wrote about musical things for a while, too, back when the internet and my knees were much younger. Interviews, reviews, silly stuff. High point: dinner with Andy Sturmer, then of Jellyfish. Hoo, I was livin' large!

Kurt Vonnegut is my role model when it comes to writing. I break his rules constantly and without guilt, but I still read them every now and again to remind myself what a hack I am.

I share them with you here.

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

I will be very, very sad when KV is on longer with us.

Jack

 

[bovinehost]

"Any scientist who cannot explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan"
--Kurt Vonnegut in Cat's Cradle

I think that's true of everyone, not just scientists.

Cheers!

Jack

 

[Musicman Nut]

Mongoose! Don't fold!

Listen, I know you're kidding, but a word about 'folding'.

Sometimes with all these fabulous BFR instruments buzzing around, it's tempting to think about folding. I myself at first thought, "Whoa! BFR! I can't wait! I want this one and that one and one of those...."

But reality set in soon enough. One of those blue SR5s that BP was talking about will retail for $7500 bucks or so, and considering how few of them there are, they might well sell ABOVE retail. Dude, that just isn't reality for me, the role model for lunch-pail bassists the world over.

So if you're in the same boat, let's live vicariously through the forum. I just enjoy seeing what the design crew is coming up with and realizing that we, the Forumites, are watching what may well be a fairly significant change taking place at Ernie Ball Music Man. How cool is that?

(I'm a bit of a geek about such things, so it may well be cooler for me than it is for many others, I know this.)

I'll enjoy the feeding frenzy over these basses, but can't join in. I mean, I have nine or ten basses and with used prices what they are, I could sell almost all of them and maybe have enough for one of the BFR 20th SR5s, right? But I enjoy having my nine or ten basses, dammit.

Don't fold. None of you guys need to fold. We can still get what I consider one hell of a value on a SR5 or a Bongo or a SR4 or a Sterling. I have some pretty cool and definitely rare and WAY sentimental basses, but last night I picked up my off-the-shelf Candy Red Bongo 5 single H and realized that I simply do not have a better bass than that.

And I didn't have to sell the wife into white slavery (or, well, latina slavery) or deplete my stable of playthings in order to have that bass.

I have basses that cost more, basses that were free, basses that have martini inlays, basses with flames, but if they all went away and I were left with that basic red Bongo single H, I'd be grateful to have it.

So, on the BFRs: for those who can afford it, excellent!

For the rest of us, we can still enjoy it vicariously and keep right on playing the best basses we could ever ask for.

Now I need a martini.

Jack

I Have to also learn, Sometimes you just can't have them all, and I'll be happy if I don't get one also, I have 163 now and not 1 five string, I'd probably never play it because i Don't even Play 5, But it's Bad A.... At any rate, So we'll Just have too see where these prices go. The future is upon us, lol.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

It's not always about who has the most toys, it's about who enjoys their toys the most.

This is a toy to enjoy having, that's all I'm saying

 

[bovinehost]

It's not always about who has the most toys, it's about who enjoys their toys the most.

This is a toy to enjoy having, that's all I'm saying

Amen to both sentiments, Pedro. And again, no one deserves a BFR 20th SR5 more than you do.

I raise my glass (hey, I need a refill) to one of the most enthusiastic EBMM dealers on the planet. Well, okay, I don't know about THE PLANET, but the continent, anyway, which is all I'm legally entitled to keep up with.

 

[MingusBASS]

Mongoose! Don't fold!

Listen, I know you're kidding, but a word about 'folding'.

Sometimes with all these fabulous BFR instruments buzzing around, it's tempting to think about folding. I myself at first thought, "Whoa! BFR! I can't wait! I want this one and that one and one of those...."

But reality set in soon enough. One of those blue SR5s that BP was talking about will retail for $7500 bucks or so, and considering how few of them there are, they might well sell ABOVE retail. Dude, that just isn't reality for me, the role model for lunch-pail bassists the world over.

So if you're in the same boat, let's live vicariously through the forum. I just enjoy seeing what the design crew is coming up with and realizing that we, the Forumites, are watching what may well be a fairly significant change taking place at Ernie Ball Music Man. How cool is that?

(I'm a bit of a geek about such things, so it may well be cooler for me than it is for many others, I know this.)

I'll enjoy the feeding frenzy over these basses, but can't join in. I mean, I have nine or ten basses and with used prices what they are, I could sell almost all of them and maybe have enough for one of the BFR 20th SR5s, right? But I enjoy having my nine or ten basses, dammit.

Don't fold. None of you guys need to fold. We can still get what I consider one hell of a value on a SR5 or a Bongo or a SR4 or a Sterling. I have some pretty cool and definitely rare and WAY sentimental basses, but last night I picked up my off-the-shelf Candy Red Bongo 5 single H and realized that I simply do not have a better bass than that.

And I didn't have to sell the wife into white slavery (or, well, latina slavery) or deplete my stable of playthings in order to have that bass.

I have basses that cost more, basses that were free, basses that have martini inlays, basses with flames, but if they all went away and I were left with that basic red Bongo single H, I'd be grateful to have it.

So, on the BFRs: for those who can afford it, excellent!

For the rest of us, we can still enjoy it vicariously and keep right on playing the best basses we could ever ask for.

Now I need a martini.

Jack

+1 Yeah...I was just joking. I can't wait to see how much these babies go for and I'm perfectly happy with my 3 bongos. I want 'em all, but I'll deal.

 

[Big Poppa]

Ok thanks for the thread and all well said. Let me just tell you that the BFR's dont change the game, they augment it. THe future is the same except that we get to be a little more creative and get to show what we are capable of. It also is simple math.....If we cannot make any more and costs are continually rising faster than we can charge our customers we need the ability to offset those costs by offering higher grossing instruments. The tail doesnt wag the dog though, the instruments come first. Secondary is the additional revenue.

Also these first 10 were really hard to price and realize that we dont get anywhere near the $7,500 retail. Also please consider there will be BFR's that dont cost that much more.....It is all a plus we wont make his stuff and not make normal production

 

[Musicman Nut]

Music Man

It's not always about who has the most toys, it's about who enjoys their toys the most.

This is a toy to enjoy having, that's all I'm saying

Absolutly right, For me it's like this. I'm not a collector, I'm a Player, I usally only buy what I Play as a rule. If I don't play it I won't keep it. Ernie Ball Just Happens to make the Best basses for my Taste so I just buy-em and Play-em, and Love everyone of-em.