Off Topic First EBMM Signature bass

[Hellboy]

Oh yeah...there it is.

Ha ha ha!! Good fun.

//J

 

[Stephen]

I like the idea, that every Stingray out there actually is a Tony Levin or Cliff Williams or Bernie Edwards or ... <insert artist> ... signature model. It's just what these guys play.

 

[Caca de Kick]

I don't like the signature thing, and I don't buy them.

In many cases it's a stock instrument....what's the point in that?

-Or- by the time a bassist gets a sig, and it's designed as a completely different model instrument, or worse, it's a different brand of instrument than what they used making their famous recordings and unique sound with....what's the point in that too?

 

[spideyjg]

Don't like the plethora of signature stuff either that is just a particular color or some minor tweak to a stock instrument. The EBMM basses aren't like the 7ender basses that get gutted like a fish and other than the wood and frets there is nothing left from the 7ender factory yet people claim their bass is still an 7ender ____.

On the flipside consider the Steve Morse geetar. You ain't gonna find anything like that around.

The funny thing at the 25th road show was Steve's answer to why a signature model. Something to the affect of I don't have to make them anymore.

To BP's point about the number of hooks, at that event despite Steve being there there wasn't a Steve Morse model to be had. I would have snapped it up to have Steve to sign for me.

Jim

 

[keko]

I wonder if EBMM have an interest to "dig out" some worldwide unknown bass players which are just a regional performers but excellent musicians?

I mean, I can suggest one or two from my region, but not sure if there's an interest in Your company?

If You want I'll cut some short video clips to point what I call versatile bass players, but must warn You that on clips ain't gonna be EBMM basses!
Not yet!

P.S. ...and have suggestion for one worldwide famous guitarist who should also deserve a signature guitar too!

BP asking Your permission to put it there, or not? (Warning: It's 7..er JB '70.-s on that live video and Suhr guitar!)

 

[Big Poppa]

no...please dont post that. what does a strange guitar player that doesnt use our stuff have to do with a sig bass?

 

[the unrepentant]

i don't really see the point in a signature bass, yeah endorsements are one thing, but if it was me and i had my own one off custom shop bass like EBMM have been known to do, i wouldn't want the general public to be able to have them too. Not to mention the fact that i don't see why anyone would buy a bass with someone else's name on it?

The JP and luke are a bit different though i think, they're guitars in their own rights, rather than a stock model with a tacky paint job like what most manufacturers do.

 

[DaddyFlip]

-Or- by the time a bassist gets a sig, and it's designed as a completely different model instrument, or worse, it's a different brand of instrument than what they used making their famous recordings and unique sound with....what's the point in that too?

This was a big deal with the 7*n*dr crowd over the Japanese made Steve Harris sig model. Mostly, it was a series of rants over which bass THEY would have made the sig model (since Steve's been seen with so many basses over his 30+ year career). I wanted one of these because I love Steve Harris and I actually liked the look and feel of the product they put out. However, my problem with owning one of these was twofold: 1) I don't think Steve's real basses were ever MIJ and 2) I don't think Steve's real basses ever had his signature on them. In contrast, Petrucci guitars are spec'd by him with BP and played by him NOW. That's the kind of sig you want to own in my opinion- not a marketing gag (and 7*n*dr is full of them: dead sigs, factory wear processes like jeans with holes in them at the store, lesser quality offerings to meet a price point, etc.- they are trying to use their name to promote a lifestyle in my opinion).

I typically think of a signature model in the same way I think of a once famous artist going to Vegas to finish out a career. Yeah, you're still famous and making money, but now in a has-been, sold-out, out-to-pasture sort of way.

Another way to look at the signature phenomenon: go to your local big box retailer or club warehouse and look at the number of 9.99/19.99/29.99 price point products from cookware to golf clubs with signatures on them. Do you really think (insert super mega-star signature endorser) uses the 19.99 pot metal and plastic, made in China (insert signature product here)?

 

[RocketRalf]

Nothing to add. Very good points have been made.

Anyway my dream bass is the virtual John Myung signature: Stealth Bongo 6 HS

 

[T-bone]

Hello......Big Al

tbone

 

[tkarter]

BP I got rave reviews for the Bongo 6H at my country gig.

If you need a signature for a Bongo you got mine. Unworthy as I am.


I will play bongos until I die and then have grandkids playing them.

Keep building them.


tk

 

[Big Poppa]

Glad the gig went well! I knew it would you could be the first man to play a six string bass on a country gig...T Karter Trailblazer

 

[tkarter]

Naw that fellow that plays bass in Cross Canadian Ragweed has been playing sixers as well as the bassist in Los Lonely boys.

I may be the first to get a job playing a bongo 6 at a country gig. But I did even if I am not the first to do so and that matters not to me. I got the gig I had fun. I got paid.

Thanks for your support and the fine bass that makes it easy for me to play.


tk

 

[Jornan]

Myung had a Yamaha signature instrument ... I've wondered what happened to that relationship. I couldn't find the instrument on their website.

From the outside looking in, its hard for me to imagine Yamaha would be happy Myung isn't using their instruments anymore.

Actually, Myung had two signature models. RBX-JM and RBX-JM2. I don't know about the first one, but the second one never had the Myung signature on it it says Yamaha RBX-JM2, and is an official signature model, but you can't fins anything that says "John Myung" on it ... The reason why you can't find info about it is because it's out of production.

Anyway, I've heard that EBMM didn't think of building a 6 string instrument unless someone - like Myung - requested it. Is that correct BP? That doesn't make the Bongo 6 a Myung signature bass, but it does at least make it Myung related

 

[the unrepentant]

i think BP said myung pushed them to put it into production, but since it's a totally stock bass, it's not a myung sig...

 

[tkarter]

I told BP you build a 6 string I will buy it. He did and I bought one.


I am nobody. Maybe someone influential did ask for one but I say BP seen a market for one and built it.

The only signature that belongs on a bongo is Sterling Ball's. And one other persons whom I have on a bongo.



imho

tk

 

[DaddyFlip]

Anyway my dream bass is the virtual John Myung signature: Stealth Bongo 6 HS

Here's the perfect, step by step guide to obtaining your perfect signature bass:

1. Support your nearest EBMM dealer and purchase or order a Bongo Stealth 6HS from him.
2. Enjoy your new bass.
3. Purchase the 'meet & greet' ticket package to a DT show of your choosing.
4. Take your Bongo and a paint pen in your favorite color to the show.
5. Enjoy the show.
6. Go backstage and ask John if he will autograph your bass for you.
7. Enjoy your new 'real' John Myung signature Bongo.

An alternative is to ask John to autograph a picture of him playing the same bass you have.

 

[the unrepentant]

i'd prefer one in sterling silver, much cooler and almost john's custom shop colour

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I am not for or against signature models - it really depends on the merits of the instrument itself and not the name on it.

One thing that might be cool is to have someone like Tony Levin pick a unique colour and name it after him (maybe a limited run, maybe not). Levin Lavender, Myung Maroon, etc...

 

[bassborja]

I hate signature basses, I feel having somebody else signature on the headstock puts you inmediately on a amateur level.
I hope MusicMan continue to keep the policy of trusting exclusevly in the quality of their basses as they do now.

Francisco de Borja
Opus3
Clases particulares de bajo, Francisco de Borja, bajista y compositor.