Just a thought

[fogman]

that thing is gross!

Please don't take this the wrong way! I love the Bongo. I don't like that particular colour, and it looks naked without the viewable pickup!

Foggie you are way off bass it was a desgn collaboration. If you were at the open house you would have seen proof. To say that we didnt design is wrong,

Oh sure rub in the Open House again!!!

My mistake. I thought I read that somewhere.
Besides any "good" design is always a collaboration between the client and the designers!


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[beej]

That was a cool prototype for sure ... I was pretty blown away by it ... looks much better elongated in Bongo Bass form.

We were all a bunch of kids in a candy store handling those prototypes ... ! Still can't believe Big Poppa let us play with all of that stuff!

 

[NorM]

More thoughts,
One thing BP said at the open house was on the order of:
Bass players are more acceptable to radical change than guitar players. Steve Morse is a fine example of that. He played the same guitar for 20 years then it took the beautiful y2d model and a long refining time to get him to play something else. Maybe it’s because guitar players are more expressive compared to the utilitarian role of a bass. Artist’s are picky about their tools and medium. Just my thought on why that could be true.
I think the bongo guitar was a good idea to try but I also would like to think that if EBMM and BMW were to design a new guitar the result would not resemble the bongo but be beautiful in its own unique way.
What do you mean guitar players are not likely to change? I love trying new guitars! As long as they are EBMM silhouettes.

 

[koogie2k]

That was a cool prototype for sure ... I was pretty blown away by it ... looks much better elongated in Bongo Bass form.

We were all a bunch of kids in a candy store handling those prototypes ... ! Still can't believe Big Poppa let us play with all of that stuff!

I always wanted to see a bongo guitar......and I got to see it and touch and play it at the Open House......

I have a bongo bass, and it took a little getting used to the axe only because I was used to the bass version. Still, it was great to see all the protos at the Open House.....and getting to play them as well......that is a close to heaven as you can get without being dead....

 

[Colin]

Oh sure rub in the Open House again!!!

Also don't mention the free guitar he missed out on.

Colin

 

[fogman]

Also don't mention the free guitar he missed out on.

Colin

OK!!! keep it coming! I can handle it!

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I think that guitar players are just stuck in their ways. I mean its hard enough convincing the average guitar player to play something that does not have Fender or Gibson on the headstock, let alone buy a Bongo guitar!

All the technology and different design ideas (active electrics, headless, neck thru, preamps on board radical shapes) all seem to be well embraced by the bass world, but us guitar players seem to be a bit more conservative!

 

[beej]

I think that guitar players are just stuck in their ways.

Yeah, but it's easy to fix that. Prove that you can still get laid playing a radical new guitar and we'll be all over it like a fat kid on a smartie.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Yeah, but it's easy to fix that. Prove that you can still get laid playing a radical new guitar and we'll be all over it like a fat kid on a smartie.

LOL!!

 

[ripley]

Although the Bongo guitar looked like a swollen goldfish, I'd love to see the boys and girls at EB/MM make something similar for the guitar crowd. The only problem is that guitarists tend to be a lot more snobbish toward new designs than bassists, so it may not go over well.

that really is true. there's all this astounding technology floating out there for basses, but when you start adding anything besides a tone knob to a guitar: suddenly cracks about the late 1980's start flying and you're somehow a "lesser guitarist" for wanting an instrument evolved beyond the mid 20th century. I actually had an idiot try to tell me that the silent circuit sapped tone from the pickups. while I don't own a MM with said device, I've played several that do and can find no remote loss of tone and in fact, if anything there's a slight enhancement of some frequencies becuase of the lack of competition for bandwidth with the 60 cycle hum.

...yet at the same time, the schmuck who railed the silent circuit tried to draw me into a prolonged conversastion about what a "guitar god" robert fripp is... A lot of these "tone purists" fire their mouths off at the mere mention of anything attatched to a guitar besides a class A tube amp, yet the second that Satriani or Vai step one toe in their town they'll leave work and stand in line to get tickets for 12 hours wearing 20 year old Van Halen tour shirts, trying to show off how much they know about rackmount systems to anyone and everyone who'll listen.

it baffles the mind. that's why Japan rules. every night is 1988 and you MIGHT have enough gear if your rack can't fit in the back of a small truck.

 

[Jonny Dubai]

Lets all go to Japan..... I love shred and 80's cock rock.

1 way ticket please.

Jonny

 

[ripley]

Lets all go to Japan..... I love shred and 80's cock rock.

1 way ticket please.

Jonny

it's heaven on earth - unless you don't like fish... and don't mind having not having a car... and are OK with nobody looking at or talking to you. but you can buy hard liquor @ the 7-eleven and there's beer vending machines!

 

[kbaim]

Seems as though the Bongo git might not balance on the lap so well.
I didn't play it though.

I look at it this way, EB makes a lot of nice instruments, but I'd rather play my Luke 100 times out of 100.

 

[Hookpunch]

i think EBMM should make a guitar that looks a little like this......

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Okay with that, as long as Rob Halford is not standing behind me.

 

[beej]

there's beer vending machines!

Oh, mama ... that is such a great idea!!! I really want one.

 

[Colin]

What about someone inventing a string vending machine?

 

[ripley]

What about someone inventing a string vending machine?

when we lived in carborro, NC there was a music store downtown that actually had a coin operated vending machine in front of it stocked with strings and packets of picks. the last time I was back for a visit, it looked like someone had thrown a brick through it and cleaned it out. not a big surprise, it's pretty close to a college campus...

 

[brentrocks]

Okay with that, as long as Rob Halford is not standing behind me.

LMAO!!!!!

 

[Colin]

when we lived in carborro, NC there was a music store downtown that actually had a coin operated vending machine in front of it stocked with strings and packets of picks. the last time I was back for a visit, it looked like someone had thrown a brick through it and cleaned it out. not a big surprise, it's pretty close to a college campus...

Reminds me of the time I complained about some chewing gum I bought tasting like rubber. Only to be told it wasn't a gum machine.

Colin

 

[beej]

Hahahahahahaha ...... !