Nobody has said it's NOT John Myung.
- Thread starter pepperman
- Start date
Nobody has said it's NOT John Myung.
Big Poppa
Well-known member
I havent said it was either.....the bongo six is still in development and wont see the public light of day until summer namm. It is in the computer now...there are no physical ones
if you hear great BOnGo tone on the next DT it would be a 5
if you hear great BOnGo tone on the next DT it would be a 5
Randracula
Well-known member
You would only need a one string bass for him....
brooklynfall
Well-known member
Ah, speculation is what keeps me going through the long, quiet days at the ol' investment bank. BP, you are a master of obfuscation and inveiglement. And bass guitar design, also.
How do these endorsement deal things work anyway?
Do some involve the artist being contractually obliged to use their signature gear for a certain time period? So someone who'd signed a 10 year endorsement deal in, say, Summer 1997 might be prevented from using other gear until Summer 2007?
bassmonkeee
Well-known member
I love this place. 
Big Poppa
Well-known member
I think of myself more as the master of the obvious.....
Investment Bank....those guys have been all over me like NorM and a prototype unveiling.....
I dont know how most companies go but I can tell you what we do with endorsements and the process that we formally go through......It is a four step process:
Step1: Extend right hand
Step 2: grssp endorsees extended right hand
Step3:make both hands rise and fall vertically
Step4: Release hand.
I guess I have never seen the point of a contract when you are makng someones main instrument. If the artist is no longer happy they will find away to break it or ignorre it. If the artist is a pain in the ass and a handful with codependancy issues along with substance abuse issues we part ways....(heheheh)
LUke, ALbert Lee steve Morse Vinnie, JP, levin all ore just a handshake seems smarter to me....
Investment Bank....those guys have been all over me like NorM and a prototype unveiling.....
I dont know how most companies go but I can tell you what we do with endorsements and the process that we formally go through......It is a four step process:
Step1: Extend right hand
Step 2: grssp endorsees extended right hand
Step3:make both hands rise and fall vertically
Step4: Release hand.
I guess I have never seen the point of a contract when you are makng someones main instrument. If the artist is no longer happy they will find away to break it or ignorre it. If the artist is a pain in the ass and a handful with codependancy issues along with substance abuse issues we part ways....(heheheh)
LUke, ALbert Lee steve Morse Vinnie, JP, levin all ore just a handshake seems smarter to me....
bassmonkeee
Well-known member
brooklynfall
Well-known member
Don't shoot the messenger BP, I'm just a lowly temp ... you want a phone answered, I'm your man!
Big Poppa
Well-known member
not shooting the messenger If the investment bankers are calling you it tells you that you are something right including possibly fooling them!
adouglas
Well-known member
BP, FWIW I have a good story about going public. I hope it is useful to you.
I had an opportunity to meet and speak with Dr. Amar Bose two months ago (yes, that Bose). An extraordinary guy.
He was addressing a bunch of Bose L1 users, and part of the talk was about the history of Bose.
He was one of the MIT crowd that changed audio as we know it back in the 60s...the people who created Acoustic Research, Polk Audio, Boston Acoustics, etc. The ones that the Japanese copied.
When Dr. Bose decided to go into business, he did something simple and obvious: He paid a visit to all of his cohorts who had established businesses along the legendary Rt. 28 corridor (the 1960s East Coast equivalent of Silicon Valley) and asked them, if they had the chance to do it over again, what would they do different?
To a man, they all said "I would never have gone public."
When you go public, you have to bow to the shareholders. Bose said (near-exact quote) "If we'd gone public, I would have been fired years ago. Our ideas take a long time to bring to market. A great idea might take ten years to produce...it'll succeed, but during development there won't be any results to show."
Example: The Quiet Comfort headphones, which are a very successful product, were conceived during an airline flight in 1978. The product didn't hit the market for almost 20 years. But it's RIGHT and it WORKS and it's SUCCESSFUL. Had Bose been a public company it would never have happened, simply because investors work on a three-month timeframe that has nothing to do with innovation or good products.
The message here is that going public stifles innovation and uniqueness. EBMM's great strength isn't that it makes great instruments. Lots of builders make great instruments. EBMM's strength is that it goes its own way, doing what the central brain trust knows is right...and dragging the world along with it, kicking and screaming. The result is products that are not only high-quality, but DIFFERENT.
Witness the Bongo. Can you imagine a board of directors green-lighting that project? HAH!
EBMM is also all about keeping the eye on quality and trusting the consumer to be intelligent enough to understand that quality does not come cheap, but it is still possible to get quality without going the boutique route.
A publicly traded company would of necessity have to skew the equation more towards competition based on price.
BP, I love your company and your approach. Listening to the investment bankers would ruin all of that. I trust that you'll keep it pure, keep it edgy, keep it unique. The world does NOT need another F*nd*r.
You've got a cult of personality going here, and it's a beautiful thing.
Big Poppa
Well-known member
Who said I was listening. Im happy and so is my family....
adouglas
Well-known member
I'm damned glad to hear that.
For whatever reason, I value products (and more importantly, the minds behind them) that go against the mainstream...I guess my head is just wired differently from most folks. I've been a steady Mac user since 1985. My bass amp isn't a bass amp...it's a Bose L1. I play a Bongo.
There are many other examples that would mean nothing to the forumites.
My role models are all thinkers who take a different tack. Burt Rutan. Buckminster Fuller. Frank Lloyd Wright. Kelly Johnson.
My Bongo is a great bass. It's a beautiful piece of industrial design and sounds incredible, but I value the EBMM approach that created it just as much as the product itself.
"Embrace the weirdness!!!!"
For whatever reason, I value products (and more importantly, the minds behind them) that go against the mainstream...I guess my head is just wired differently from most folks. I've been a steady Mac user since 1985. My bass amp isn't a bass amp...it's a Bose L1. I play a Bongo.
There are many other examples that would mean nothing to the forumites.
My role models are all thinkers who take a different tack. Burt Rutan. Buckminster Fuller. Frank Lloyd Wright. Kelly Johnson.
My Bongo is a great bass. It's a beautiful piece of industrial design and sounds incredible, but I value the EBMM approach that created it just as much as the product itself.
"Embrace the weirdness!!!!"
Ginnagan
Active member
If you listen to the Majesty demos, Myung used his modified Stingray on it, it sounds so good on the song, "Another Won".
roburado
Well-known member
John Patitucci?
bassmonkeee
Well-known member
Way to bring back an old thread with some new information!
Heh--It's not that new.
http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-basses/23740-dream-theater-fans.html
HunterSThompson
Well-known member
Conspiracy Theory No.5
Conspiracy..Conspiracy I say..It's been in the works for some time...If you notice the last "Signature" bass Mr. Myung played..It didn't even have his signature on it..But what it did have is a rosewood..yes rosewood I say ...a rosewood fretboard...And unlike his previous "signature" bass which had an ebony fretboard which in fact.. had his signature on the headstock..His new bass did not have th usual dual soapbar pickups .....It had a single MM styled humbucker in the bridge position...and no neck pickup .....Proof ladies & gentle men of the jury..He's in fact homesick ...and waiting for Big Poppa to wave him home...If you build it..he will come...These are just my opinions..please don't ban me BP...But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
Conspiracy..Conspiracy I say..It's been in the works for some time...If you notice the last "Signature" bass Mr. Myung played..It didn't even have his signature on it..But what it did have is a rosewood..yes rosewood I say ...a rosewood fretboard...And unlike his previous "signature" bass which had an ebony fretboard which in fact.. had his signature on the headstock..His new bass did not have th usual dual soapbar pickups .....It had a single MM styled humbucker in the bridge position...and no neck pickup .....Proof ladies & gentle men of the jury..He's in fact homesick ...and waiting for Big Poppa to wave him home...If you build it..he will come...These are just my opinions..please don't ban me BP...But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
