Pick Pappa's bass?!?!?!?!?

[Fuzzy Dustmite]

I suggest doing a single H bongo in the Petrucci Mystic Dream color shifting paintjob thingy. No pickguard, with a first fret inlay like the JP on the petrucci, but with BP.

 

[Figjam]

^ Thatd be cool.

 

[Motojunkie]

I think it would be cool for BP to pick out his favorite Hawaiian shirt pattern and have that painted on a single H Bongo - no pickguard of course. It would surely catch his persona.

 

[strummer]

We know that laminating is not out of the question, by seeing the flame tops on the aniversary models. An ash top and mohogany back on a basswood, or even a CEDAR, core usually sounds humongibulous without weighing in like a Lincoln Town Car. As a 4-string it shouldn't be a diver.

Methinks laminating would be a real pain on the bongo, at least if you wanted to keep an uniform appearance, because of the bevels. Could make it half/half though...

 

[Golem]

Methinks laminating would be a real pain on the bongo, at least if you wanted to keep an uniform appearance, because of the bevels. Could make it half/half though...

You are sooooo right on that, and I hope BP goes for it.

 

[Golem]

How about putting suicide tuners on it in honor of the Lincoln?

Alternate between forward and reverse tuners.

I've put up with whacko situations similar to that. On a hockey head, I don't like the way that some of the strings splay out at extreme angle from the nut, so I run them onto the posts the other way around. Some old Gibsons are set up with reverse tuners on one side of the 2+2, so I guess it's not just a personal kwerk.

 

[82Daion]

I'd like to see a Pearl Redburst Single H Bongo with piezo, black pickguard, with a custom pinstriping job behind/around the bridge and on the headstock.

 

[phatduckk]

maybe its just me, but i wanna see Sterling playing a Sterling

So, maybe some funky paintjob Sterling with the electronics of a Bongo H

 

[oddjob]

maybe its just me, but i wanna see Sterling playing a Sterling

its just you
But it isn't a bad idea- but after seeing BP playing a Bongo at OH, it seems like a natural fit and everything else would just look wrong (kind of like seeing Levin play a Bongo... it is just wrong )

 

[GWDavis28]

BP, what color would you have a Bongo or Sterling for that matter if you could choose anything???

Glenn |B)

 

[SteveB]

I have a few ideas...

1) THE mahogany Bongo. -- That is the sweetest looking bass ever produced!

2) a Sterling Silver Sterling.

3) a rear-routed Sterling with quilted maple top and one of these finishes:

* Purple Sunset with radiused cream binding.
* De-Purpleburst with radiused indigo binding.
* the carmel burst color on the 20th anniversary Silo with radiused black binding.

Whichever you choose, it should have a matching headstock.

 

[Colin]

I vote for a flamed top single H bongo. Big Poppa inlayed in the fretboard. Purple sunset would be a nice colour.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

At first I thought he should play the prototype 30th Ray but I forgot about the SR5 with Rosewood neck one off that was at the OH.

Go for this one BP.

 

[sandman@midlife]

Bongo 5H in Sapphire Black with an Abalone pickguard. I have it from a reliable source that that combo is going to be really big this year.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Oh wait...I forgot about the Buttercream Rosewood neck Bongo....go for this one BP (or sell it to me please!!).

 

[bovinehost]

There are some great suggestions here, but remember.....

"Real men play four strings." (Sterling Ball, 2005)

 

[phatduckk]

ok ... im trying to think of a few facts here before i make suggestion #2 ...

BP's name is on the Sterling
he says the single H Bongo is the secret weapon
His last bass was a standard issue finish
but he has the biff baby's sr with a non-standard finish
i know he loves the rosewood necks
i know he likes the mohagany bongo in rolls burgundy we saw at OH

so combining all that ...

* Mahogany Sterling
* HS config
* trans red finish (whatever the finish was on the mahog bongo at OH)
* 1 very subtle flame painted on it (only see it clearly at certain angles but its alwasy noticable if you know its there),
* rosewood neck
* no pick guard
* and just to switch things up the headstock should say Phatty. His name's on my basses so i figure its just fair

 

[shamus63]

* and just to switch things up the headstock should say Phatty. His name's on my basses so i figure its just fair

"Phatty" Balls?

 

[phatduckk]

"Phatty" Balls?

lol

 

[Figjam]

I like the suggestion, cept im confused.. mahog body with a solid rolls finish? So to the human eye itd be a mystery that its made of mahogany? Would the neck be mahog also?