Openening order day!! 19 mm string spacing!

[BigOldHarry]

Bill Murray is awesome! I met him down here in Charleston last summer. He owns the local baseball team, the Charleston River Dogs. My buddy is the one of the general managers there and we had box seats next to him. He came over for a bit and hung out. Super, Super, Super nice guy. Sherman Hemsley was there the same day and came by with him, he too was a really nice guy. At the 7th inning stretch Sherman danced a jig on top of the River Dogs dug out to the theme song of the Jeffersons. Needless to say it was a really fun day!

Baseball + bassplayers = awesomeness.

 

[Big Poppa]

you forgot bbq.....Harry....... you can tell the truth...Are you having any fun here? I wont tell anyone.......

 

[Spudmurphy]

He has an albert lee and a silhouette.

Gee I didn't know he was in the ALOC !!!

 

[BigOldHarry]

you forgot bbq.....Harry....... you can tell the truth...Are you having any fun here? I wont tell anyone.......

Excellent point. BBQ. I'll be doing some tri-tips & stuff this weekend... The Weber Smokinator is indeed a item of genius...

Hey, do you recall a former employee named Mike Hopkins (I play with him down here in SD, on and off)...?

 

[bovinehost]

Ernie Ball Offers Test Run of Music Man Stingray 5-String Bass with 19mm Spacing

 

[jlepre]

Thanks Jack,

I just shared that on my Facebook page.

 

[joebone]

So I just finished a really long rehearsal for a recording next week; split the rehearsal between my Sadowsky Metro R5-24 and my MusicMan SR5HH (GC 40th Anniversary model). Utter consensus; the R5-24 is songful, almost like a fretless, and I feel really free and easy on it, but the SR5HH has the THUMP, and all agreed that my ideal axe would be the love child of each. I didn't have the heart to to tell my colleagues that the bastard child of these fine axes -- the hoped-for MMSR5 with wider neck/spacing -- hangs in the balance as we await the marketplace determining whether there are 125 orders lurking within the next 10 days.

Yikes.

 

[Big Poppa]

Joe we will see.......Ill give a tally on tuesday

 

[jim777]

I don't know if it will get to 125 in 2 weeks, but I think 19mm has definitely become an industry standard. If it were an option, it would sell to some degree. Not to me, mind you, but it's important to a big section of the bass buying public. I like the regular normal stuff, you know, like bright GREEN Bongo 5s! If it were up to me we'd be talking about white pickups and neon glittery finishes, not huge string spacing LOL

 

[Big Poppa]

Please lets not start the argument all over again. The Stingray 5 is the number one selling USA made 5 string in history so that must sway the industry standard a little. Plus it was a three week window and not something I would ever respond to again It wasnt worth the attacks on me and my family.

Everyone have a happy and healthy fourth

 

[DTG]

Happy 4th BP. We shall be having a football game (not soccer) and a night on the town with my old team "Dublin rebels " to mark the day

 

[madbassplaya]

The Stingray 5 is the number one selling USA made 5 string in history so that must sway the industry standard a little.

I wasn't aware of this BP. I do know this though. I had two US Fender Jazz V's. They were my first "nice" basses that I had really owned. I remember going over to a friends house so he could help me set them up. I was VERY proud of these basses. US Fenders, what more could you want, right? My friend had done some touring in Nashville in his earlier days and he didn't seem super impressed with my basses. I asked him what he played and he told me a Stingray. I had NEVER seen one before except in music videos. I knew Pheonix from Linkin Park played one. He brought out a Honeyburst SR5 and let me play around on it. That bass just felt "solid". My Fenders just didn't feel that way...

 

[Big Poppa]

hey Fenders are fine...Life is about choices for players I just cant give all of them to everyone.

 

[syciprider]

You're getting awful close now BP. Non traditional designs, high tech passive/active electronics, 6 string and now a wide spaced 5er. These side by side with the Stingray cover many bases.

This time next year you'll be responding to a thread titled "Why doesn't Music Man make an 8 string octave bass?"

 

[ModuMan]

This time next year you'll be responding to a thread titled "Why doesn't Music Man make an 8 string octave bass?"

I thought that was just me!

 

[jlepre]

I'm not trying to be negative, so please do not misconstrue my question:

I'm just wondering with the added width of the neck and such, will the new 19mm be much heavier than the standard SR5?

 

[2ndBassGuitar]

Joe we will see.......Ill give a tally on tuesday

I am keeping an eye on the numbers...... if gets close to 125, I will order one (to my US address)

 

[Holdsg]

I can't see how it would be more than 1/2 lb heavier at the most. Same body, same headstock, same electronics, just a wider neck.

 

[Big Poppa]

maybe a tiny tiny but more but on average no more weight

 

[Big Poppa]

Boy am I glad there is some humor starting to flow. This has been the worst experience ever for me on the forum
When it is over I may retire from posting. This all started because people thought I was not understanding the market and not giving the players what they wanted. The personal attacks are why other owners of companies dont participate on public forums.