Bongo History...neck joint

[oddjob]

no pictures no bass....


still have the broken proto?

now that is just funny, true, but funny. I suppose BP is entitled to break the often spoken of forum law

 

[GWDavis28]

BP, I understand the whole gotta bring them down to earth thing. I'm a mechanical designer and sometimes, people think they are so right and stubborn that they don't want to listen. It seems the newer talent that's entering the work force is the cockiest. But they are one ones that need the most lessons.

Great story, thanx for sharing. Glenn |B)

 

[Big Poppa]

Its how you handle the youthful enthusiasm. It is also that the old guys have to be willing to listen to the young guns and what they have learned. ITs like life the best solutions usually involve cooperation.

 

[bassmancb]

Great story BP. Yeah if we could get the old and the new minds clicking together on one page there's no telling what we could come up with.

 

[Fred E.]

I hope you don't mind if I don't try to replicate your test with either of my Bongos--I take your word for the structural integrity of the current neck joint.

 

[freedok]

Big Poppa,
Let me offer my design services as an option to in house design. I have Catia V5 and Surfcam programs fired up and ready to go. In a couple of weeks I will be unemployed looking for freelance design anyways. In fact, I will give you the first 10 hours of design for free just so you can see what I am capable of doing.

Regards, KSH

 

[SLUGGO]

...casually broke the bass over my knee using very little force but making a powerful statement...

This example brought to you by the Barry Bonds School of R & D!

This is so classic!

 

[MingusBASS]

Great Story! I really enjoy the Bongo history lessons. You guys knocked it out of the park with the Bongo.

 

[phatduckk]

wow - awesome way to make your point. i love that story.

id love to see the dude's face when he heard the initial "crackkkkkk"

 

[syciprider]

Dang, I wonder what EB board meetings are like?

 

[Oldtoe]

Judging from the amount of progress this company has made, I'd say there are no "meetings" as commonly described by the business world.

I'd love to sit in on one, though.

 

[adouglas]

Great story, BP!

Forgive me for inserting an American pop-culture reference, but it's appropriate. If you get it, you get it. If you don't, it's not worth explaining:

Do Not Frak With The Admiral.

 

[Rano Bass]

Nice story BP!
That's a lesson i guess the young engineer will never forget.

 

[Big Poppa]

We dont have a board so it is hard to have a board meeting.

 

[slucas]

Private company. No board, no suits, and the big guy can break whatever he wants whenever he wants to...............................just not my Blue Dawn Bongo pleeeeeeeez

 

[koogie2k]

Great read and thanks for sharing. I am so hard on my bongo during shows and I am glad it is bulletproof. We had a big show this past Saturday and the touring bands asked me how many basses I have broken because of how hard I play them....I told them...."This is a EBMM Bongo...it is a weapon...maybe your bass can't handle the heat...but mine is bulletproof." The major headline act love the bongo (their bass player messed around with my Stealth back stage) and commented on how great it sounds, looks and the fact it can take a licking!

Dudley is a genius. He is super cool and I applaud him and his vision. Keep 'em coming.

 

[SteveB]

Cool. Reminds me of a Steve Jobs story (or urban legend I adopted as fact) from the Mac Development. Actually, I think this was in Tom Peters first 'In Search of Excellence' book / video - maybe. Apparently all the hot-shot engineers / programmers could not get the scroll bar right - yes the ubiquitous little thing to the right over there.

He blew up at the team (effectively 'breaking the prototype over his knee'), and called on Steve Wozniak (his Dudley) and got it done right.

Sometimes, you just got to go to the wheelhouse and get it done right. Its a difficult thing sometimes when trying to develop talent.

Cool story.

JIM

I wouldn't buy into that story too much since it was actually the GEM operating system (developed by Xerox at their Palo Alto Research Center) that first featured graphical windows -- complete with scrollbars. Of course, perhaps Apple was trying to replicate the behavior of Xerox's OS.

The mouse (the input device, not the rodent) was developed for that Xerox OS as well.

 

[bassmonkeee]

The mouse (the input device, not the rodent) was developed for that Xerox OS as well.

One of the other managers that I work with now was an accountant for Xerox back in those days, and tells me stories of them bringing the mouse around to show to people. Everyone was very confused, apparently.

 

[Big Poppa]

xerox also had developed the laser printer but didnt patent it either the mouse is the biggest intellectual property blunder in the history of mankind...

 

[lenny]

he inventor of the computer mouse never patented it ? wowsers thats shocking!!!
Great read by the way Bp we all the the insider info!