Incoming (Big Al content)

[Big Poppa]

Mark I want picking on you at all...One of the things I always hope for when showing something new i sofr people to play them first before getting a mindset. If it wasnt for balck and tort I dont know uf you would have played it!

 

[syciprider]

BP I ordered a Big AL with some reservations about the neck size. I held onto the belief that you don't make anything bad and I'm glad I did. Now I am comfy looking at Sterlings knowing that I can play them just as well (or bad) as an SR.

Mark, please post your pics in the Alliance.

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-basses/42772-its-time-big-alliance.html

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I really like the black and tort combo. If I end up getting a Big Al 5, that will be the front-runner colour combo.

 

[Aussie Mark]

One of the things I always hope for when showing something new i sofr people to play them first before getting a mindset. If it wasnt for balck and tort I dont know uf you would have played it!

I think my posts about the skinny necks on the Big Al were really designed to stop my GAS for the look of the Big Al. I was trying to talk myself out of buying one and used the neck as my excuse. I almost hit the trigger when I saw a sunburst/tort one for sale, but when the black/tort came up I couldn't resist, as you correctly observed. You definitely hooked me when I first saw the Big Al, it just needed that color combo to push me over the edge.

I do "prefer" the wider necks, but the skinny neck is not a deal breaker - I've owned lots of Jazzes and Thunderbirds over the years, and I even currently own a couple of short scale, skinny necked basses for the Rolling Stones tribute band, so getting used to the Big Al neck really only took 10 seconds.

As an aside, it's funny, I don't think guitarists in general are as geeky about gear as bass players are - when I pointed out to our fill in guitarist on Saturday night that we had coincidentally brought the same colour instruments to the gig, he took a look at the Big Al and didn't even ask what it was or seem surprised by what he saw. We talked a bit more, and all he wanted to talk about were colours. I'm sure if another bass player had seen me with the Big Al there would have been lots of discussion and questions.