Dave LaRue Interview

[ZiggyDude]

I was looking through the most recent FBPO newsletter. There is an interview with Dave LaRue. He mentions several of his EBMM basses and is pictured with a nice Bongo in a green color. Pretty nice interview actually.

Question - are alll his basses one single coil and one HH like the Bongo pictured.

I love that color! Maybe a nice follow-up to my Desert Gold.

You can see his interview an dpic part way down this link. They have a couple of interviews above him.

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[DaddyFlip]

Ziggy- there are still plenty of those green ones left on the market. They are Dargie Delight II's in Caramel Apple. Go get 'em. Thanks for the interview link.

 

[ZiggyDude]

You are welcome!

I went to Bass Central and checked the colors. They seem to have about everything. What is really odd - mattering how the light hits - the green turns to desert gold. Or is that something you never see in real life with that bass. I noticed on the Dave LaRue site a lot of his Bongos were gold and not green.

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[DaddyFlip]

Check 'em out at The Perfect Bass. The Caramel Apple changes depending on the lighting. Flash photography makes it more extreme than it is in real life. They are more green than gold.

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[mynan]

The one in the interview pic looks like a Dargie 1. It's got the martini glass inlays.

 

[adouglas]

Ziggy, it does seem you're mildly confused about the various colors you've seen.

LaRue's green bass is a Dargie Delight I. It does not color-shift.

LaRue's gold bass is, IIRC, a one-off burst finish made just for him. I thought it was Desert Gold too, but I'm fairly certain someone corrected me on that.

The ones at Bass Central are Dargie Delight IIs, in a new finish called Caramel Apple made just for those instruments -- not to be offered again, and I believe the ordering window has closed on them. If you like it and you find one, seize the opportunity.

Caramel Apple is a color-shifting finish... depends on how the light hits it.

 

[ZiggyDude]

Thanks adouglas - that helps.

Yeah - the color shifting thing is odd at times. I have noticed that sometimes my Desert Gold (DG) looks brown with certian colored stage lights - especially if it is dark.

I found several basses about new with the DDII finish. But I guess I will sit back and wait until a DDI. Probably a Bongo 4 string as it has more comfortable finger spacing at the nut. (And I already Unless (of course) they ever bring it out in PURPLE!

The Dave LaRue artical was interesting to me as it covered some of his development. I am not sure of where born - but did not realize that he is a fellow Jersey dude. A lot of musicians come out of that area.

It looks like he usually puts a single coil at the neck position on most of his Bongos (counted 3 or 4 so far). I still wonder if that gives more a tonal difference. My Carvin has a MM style at the bridge and a jazz pup at the neck and it seems to get real dark when I pan that way. Using a HH with a coil tap switch might be a cool idea.