Bongo Color changes ?

[coastie72]

What time of year does color options change, new year models? I have Bongo fever and I am going to buy one but I am not crazy about any of the current color offerings. I know that Bass Central, The Perfect Bass Ect. has new old stock but they can't touch the price's that my dealer will order me one for. Just curious if anyone knows?

 

[strummer]

Namm, january, I believe.

 

[roburado]

Generally, new colors are introduced at the NAMM show. Colors are discontinued...well...whenever they decide to discontinue them.

The exception to the practice of introducing new colors in January is when EBMM decides to do something like the Roasted Maple/Black Sugar package. Stuff like that is not necessarily limited to the NAMM show schedule.

 

[adouglas]

Where I live the colors start changing around early October.

Oh, wait, those are the trees.




Never mind.






(ooh, look! A Desert Gold one!)

 

[drTStingray]

Where I live the colors start changing around early October.

Oh, wait, those are the trees.




Never mind.






(ooh, look! A Desert Gold one!)

Since I've had a Bongo I've been seeing very psychadelic fall colours...................

 

[Aussie Mark]

If you have a Dargie II Bongo the colour changes constantly.

 

[syciprider]

TPB has an online coupon. Did you try that? I totally get loyalty to a proven dealer though.

 

[JayDawg]

If you have a Dargie II Bongo the colour changes constantly.

I do and it does...

 

[ivbenaplayin]

I do and it does...

I do too, and mine does too...

BTW, have you ever noticed that if you look across it while it's laying flat (in the proper light, of course...) that it looks like a deep auburn reddish color?

 

[b-unit]

The current colors may not seem as exciting as some of the previous offerings, but I bet you would love a Bongo in pretty much any color. Sterling Silver is outstanding!

 

[Oldtoe]

I really ought to buy a Bongo 5 H or HH. I would really swoon over a Sterling Silver example.

 

[adouglas]

There is nothing in the world quite like the Bongo 5 low B.

And if you boost the bass... well, let's just say you should secure all nearby breakables before doing it. It's scary.

No lie... I knocked a picture off a wall once.

 

[five7]

Black is a great color

 

[Movielife]

Red and Sapphire Black are the current best colours, IMO.

 

[Holdsg]

True story, I was at Hollywood GC a few months back, they had roughly 25 stingrays on the wall, all diff. finishes, including a couple 25th anniversaries. One Big Al. No Bongos. I asked if they had any Bongos, and the guy said "nah, that's kind of a niche product, never really caught on, we don't stock those". Now, I am not one to judge too harshly a GC employee, but it seems to me like bongo is 50% of the discussion on this forum, either GC has it wrong, or we must be the niche.

 

[adouglas]

either GC has it wrong, or we must be the niche.

I think we are definitely the niche.

The few. The proud. The enlightened. The converted. The chosen. The addicted. The weird.

Yep. That's us.

 

[Disco Batman]

I would certainly say we are the niche. I love my Bongo. And I'm starting to get the itch to try 5 string. I can't decide whether to buy a cheap POS to give it a shot or pick up a Bongo 5. I just have a fear of spending a bunch of money on a 5'er and not liking it.

 

[jlepre]

...but it seems to me like bongo is 50% of the discussion on this forum, either GC has it wrong, or we must be the niche.

I like the Bongo, and I wasn't too quick to warm up to it's UNIQUEness, but I think WE do talk about it MORE than other musicians.

 

[adouglas]

I would certainly say we are the niche. I love my Bongo. And I'm starting to get the itch to try 5 string. I can't decide whether to buy a cheap POS to give it a shot or pick up a Bongo 5. I just have a fear of spending a bunch of money on a 5'er and not liking it.

If you get a POS 5er you'll dislike it not because it's a 5, but because it's a POS.

I've owned one J bass in my life. I hated it. Why? It was an SX. DUH!

Go for the Bongo. Get one used... they're not THAT much. You'll like it. Really.

 

[b-unit]

It continues to shock and dismay me that Bongo's are never in stock at the big L&M music chain up here in western Canada. People talk about them in hushed whispers, like a legend everyone has heard about but never seen in person! haha