Incoming (Big Al content)

[Grand Wazoo]

I'll tell you when it arrives. It's only been 3 days since I paid, and it has to travel half way around the planet to get to me

I know a song about that

 

[2ndBassGuitar]

Mark - you are awfully quiet........ are you too polishing up and playing your new black Big Al 4SSS with tort guard? I see it came in yesterday. Let me know all is ok.

Jim

 

[Aussie Mark]

Mark - you are awfully quiet........ are you too polishing up and playing your new black Big Al 4SSS with tort guard? I see it came in yesterday. Let me know all is ok.

Jim

It's all good Jim, thanks!

I posted a crappy cell phone photo in another thread, but then I didn't get around to assembling and stringing the Big Al until 10.00pm last night. I put TI Flats on it so had to tweak the truss rod slightly, and I've only had 5 minutes on it through a headphone amp. Sounds and feels great though. I hope to get more time with it tonight once the truss rod has settled and I've finished setting it up for the new strings.

 

[bassmonkeee]

Oooooooh, I bet the Jazz Flats and that neck SC will be a wonderful combination.

 

[RaginRog]

The skinny neck is the only thing that made me hold off buying one, but it ticks all the other boxes, so I'm willing to give it a fling. The colour combo was the clincher of course

Oh, come on- Skinny necks need lovin' too!

Your Purple Ray was sweet, but I love that Big Al your getting! Congrats!

 

[Rocksolid]

Mark I can't see the pic and I am dying to! My fav colour combo. Looking forward to hearing what you think..

 

[Aussie Mark]

Mark I can't see the pic and I am dying to! My fav colour combo. Looking forward to hearing what you think..

 

[tiffles]

very puuuuuuuuurdy!! im in sydney now, im so crashing your place to come and play it!

 

[Aussie Mark]

very puuuuuuuuurdy!! im in sydney now, im so crashing your place to come and play it!

Tiff, if you come to my party band covers gig tomorrow night at Mounties you're very welcome to play it there We're on from 8pm to 11pm.

 

[tiffles]

where is mounties??

 

[Aussie Mark]

where is mounties??

Mt Pritchard Community Club, near Liverpool.

Mounties - Home

 

[tiffles]

oh goodness. thats a loooooooong way away, im living in chatswood at the moment, no car here either

 

[cellkirk74]

Tiff, if you come to my party band covers gig tomorrow night at Mounties you're very welcome to play it there We're on from 8pm to 11pm.

Please let us know how it did on the gig and your overall impression.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I've just spent an hour messing with the Big Al, and am looking forward to testing it at volume at tomorrow night's gig.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I gigged the Big Al last night with my party cover band thing - some Motown/Stax, lots of funky 70's and 80's disco, Ricky Martin, a bit of more recent Kylie and Anastascia etc.

BP and team, you've outdone yourself with the Big Al. This is a f***ing good bass, even though I'll never use all the tonal options in a gazillion years. It feels great on a strap just like a Bongo does - perfect balance, sits right. I ran it all night in active mode with the neck and middle pups on, all EQ flat. With flats it was a funk machine. I can live with the skinny neck, it's not like I haven't played Jazzes or Thunderbirds much or anything like that.

Coincidentally, the fill in guitarist we used last night who I didn't meet until 30 minutes before the gig rocked up with a black/tort/rosewood Strat, so it was a matching colour scheme single coil blitz.

Again, well done BP and team on a fantastic bass!

 

[syciprider]

Is that James Brown funk or Parliament funk?

 

[Aussie Mark]

Is that James Brown funk or Parliament funk?

Old school funk, including James Brown.

 

[syciprider]

I may have to blaspheme on my Big AL too. My Bongo is wearing three year old flats and they are just now breaking in LOL.

 

[Big Poppa]

nice Mark! All those posta about the neck and it works once you play it!

 

[Colin]

nice Mark! All those posta about the neck and it works once you play it!

wow exactly my thoughts, nice report Mark