How sweet is the Bongo

[adouglas]

I think my guitar player is more excited about my new Bongo than I am.

He just sent me this:

[font=&quot]How sweet is the Bongo?[/font]

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[font=&quot]If King Kong played bass, it would be a Bongo[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has its own bass and that bass is still better than your bass![/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has its own agent[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is dating Lindsay Lohan [/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has legislation pending[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is a major terrorist target[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo’s levees never break[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo refuses calls from Spielberg[/font]

[font=&quot]Kim Jong-il reconsidered his nuclear stance after playing a Bongo[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is up for a Nobel Peace Prize[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo can cook a mean steak[/font]

[font=&quot]Down 3 games in the 2004 ALCS, an unnamed Boston Red Sox player told his teammates he was thinking of buying a Bongo.[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo turned down its own reality series[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has a standing reservation at 21[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo introduced John Lennon to Paul McCartney[/font]

 

[Golem]

Amazing intellect and sensitivity displayed below.... and you say this is a GUI*AR player? Maybe the flatwound-13's-on-f-hole-thin-body sort of gui*ar player? OTOH, if his passion is deafening a barfull of drunks with 9's on a Strat, well all I can do is warn you about dealing with schitzoids.

I think my guitar player is more excited about my new Bongo than I am.

He just sent me this:

[font=&quot]How sweet is the Bongo?[/font]

[font=&quot] [/font]

[font=&quot]If King Kong played bass, it would be a Bongo[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has its own bass and that bass is still better than your bass![/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has its own agent[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is dating Lindsay Lohan [/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has legislation pending[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is a major terrorist target[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo’s levees never break[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo refuses calls from Spielberg[/font]

[font=&quot]Kim Jong-il reconsidered his nuclear stance after playing a Bongo[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo is up for a Nobel Peace Prize[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo can cook a mean steak[/font]

[font=&quot]Down 3 games in the 2004 ALCS, an unnamed Boston Red Sox player told his teammates he was thinking of buying a Bongo.[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo turned down its own reality series[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo has a standing reservation at 21[/font]

[font=&quot]The Bongo introduced John Lennon to Paul McCartney[/font]

 

[Freddy-G.]

OK...... I believe the Lindsey Lohan part.

 

[adouglas]

Amazing intellect and sensitivity displayed below.... and you say this is a GUI*AR player? Maybe the flatwound-13's-on-f-hole-thin-body sort of gui*ar player?

Close. He plays a 12 string Taylor and hates hard distortion. I've tried to convince him that there's good distortion, but I'm not sure he's buying it.

 

[bassmonkeee]

That's pretty good. Reminds me of something I wrote in April of 2004:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1411115&postcount=15

Heh--you'll notice somewhere else in that thread Dude says he'd never lick a Bongo. Heh heh....

 

[adouglas]

A few more

The Bongo is more subversive than Abbey Hoffmann.

The Bongo is more addictive than a Blackberry.

If Gene Rayburn had a Bongo in "The War of the Worlds," the movie would have been over before the end of the first reel.

If Leo Fender had conceived the Bongo in the early '50s, everybody would have one and there would be no Jazz or Precision basses.

The Bongo is proof that there is indeed intelligent life on Earth.

The Bongo is the Official Bass of the 2012 Olympics. And the NFL. And Major League Baseball. And....

If your city floods, your Bongo will float and give you something to cling to.

The Yankees are going to name their new stadium Bongo Field.

 

[Bill]

The Bongo is more addictive than a Blackberry.

And FAR less annoying! Those damn Blackberries are taking over the organization I work for.

 

[adouglas]

The [size=-1]Loizeaux Brothers are going to start using Bongos instead of plastic explosive to demolish buildings.

The Bongo can make your fillings fall out.

The Bongo causes spontaneous combustion.

The "Brown Note" will soon be called the "Bongo Note."

You can't put too many Bongos in one place, or they'll reach critical mass, start a chain reaction and explode.

The Bongo clears your sinuses.

Little known fact: When they opened King Tut's tomb, they found a golden Bongo inside.
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[SteveB]

I'm a guitard, so I'm not as close to the subject matter, but I'll try:


I Bongo, therefore I am.

Ask not what your Bongo can do for you, ask what you can do for your Bongo.

My Bongo can beat up your Bongo.

A Bongo called by any other name would sound as sweet?

To Bongo, or not to Bongo, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The strings and trussrods of outrageous Fenders,
Or to take arms against a sea of Warwicks
And by comparing, end them. To cry: to weep.


(in Robert Plant voice
"Does anybody remember Leo?"

 

[Bill]

The Bongo clears your sinuses.

I'll take 3 Bongos, please.

 

[adouglas]

The Bongo wins hot sauce competitions.

Compared to the Bongo, wasabi is as bland as oatmeal.

The Bongo spontaneously causes hearing aids to feed back (no kidding! http://www.ernieball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10453).

 

[shamus63]

[size=-1]Little known fact: When they opened King Tut's tomb, they found a golden Bongo inside.
[/size]

Was it "Desert Gold", or "Medallion Gold"?

 

[adouglas]

Was it "Desert Gold", or "Medallion Gold"?

I think it was the next Special Edition color:

"None More Gold"

 

[adouglas]

With all the well-deserved Bongoness going on lately I thought it would be good to resurrect this.

Another old gem will be forthcoming once I dig it up.

 

[cellkirk74]

All the above is true. I took my Bongo 5 to the rehearsal yesterday and I did absolutely not have the feeling that there could anything be better with my sound.

Hats off!!!

 

[bovinehost]

Hey AD:

I hate to bring this up, but have you played a 25th or a Reflex?

 

[adouglas]

Hey AD:

I hate to bring this up, but have you played a 25th or a Reflex?

I played an H maple 25th once for about two minutes in a store, but wasn't really paying much attention.

I know it's superficial, but that kind of body shape (no real upper horn) doesn't do much for me.

Do you know if the preamp in there is the same as the Big Al? I've seen people say so, but having all the knobs, buttons and fiddly bits in the same places doesn't make the guts identical.

 

[MadMatt]

You do know the Reflex/25th is simply a well dressed Bongo!

Think Chuck Norris in a Tuxedo

 

[bassmonkeee]

You do know the Reflex/25th is simply a well dressed Bongo!

Think Chuck Norris in a Tuxedo

Except for the different body wood, different pickup magnets, different pickup placement....

 

[MadMatt]

Except for the different body wood, different pickup magnets, different pickup placement....

Oh, those are just minor details