So I tried a Bongo today...

[Steamthief]

...4 strings, HH, through a 50-watt 15" Peavey combo.

Holy Buddha! Can you say punch? Since I didn't know what the knobs controlled, I just tried different settings, and the variety of good tones was sick! Growl, thump, hi-fi, it was all inside. This bass made everything else I tried sound anemic.

I'm beginning to understand now what all the hype's about, and why so many here have ditched their Rays and Sterlings for Bongos. I may be next.

 

[bovinehost]

Now imagine what it sounds like through a real amp.

Listen, I'm sitting here with a rather standard* SR4 single H in my lap and loving it, but there really is something different and startling about the Bongo.

It isn't hype. It isn't collective hysteria. I love my Stingrays, my 20th SR5, but the Bongo is just a different experience.

Jack



*Except it's green and has martini glass inlays on the fretboard.

 

[Oldtoe]

I can see myself developing a Bongo acquisition syndrome if I don't control myself.

For all the above-mentioned reasons.

I decided Saturday night, for one of our rare hometown gigs, that I'd bring along my two non-EBMM basses for the sake of mom, my wife, and diversity. There's a story about the two non-EBMM basses, and how I'm married to them, but that's not the point. The point is: the sound in my head and the feel of an instrument is pure Music Man. I played like crap Saturday night, too. The two other basses just got re-relegated to the closet.

 

[bovinehost]

I can see myself developing a Bongo acquisition syndrome if I don't control myself.

For all the above-mentioned reasons.

I decided Saturday night, for one of our rare hometown gigs, that I'd bring along my two non-EBMM basses for the sake of mom, my wife, and diversity. There's a story about the two non-EBMM basses, and how I'm married to them, but that's not the point. The point is: the sound in my head and the feel of an instrument is pure Music Man. I played like crap Saturday night, too. The two other basses just got re-relegated to the closet.

Ben's got a couple of non-EBMM basses that would impress you if I let him name them here, which I most certainly will not.

And he keeps them for good reasons - wife, mom, gifts, you can guess.

I have a non-EBMM bass myself, which came as a gift from the wife - otherwise, it would be long gone, I assure you.

I think we're lucky, though, to have (a) figured out what we really want and (b) to have discovered that the coolest company on earth provides us with what we really want.

So we have to keep some mongrel, non-EBMM basses around to keep the family happy? No biggie. That's why God made closets.

Jack

 

[Spectre]

I can see myself developing a Bongo acquisition syndrome if I don't control myself.

I resisted, but in the end, Jack made me do it. I love rationalization.

I have been enjoying my new Bongo, and quite happy that I lucked into it.
Love all my basses, but my Bongo is now #1, in my current line up.
I'm betting a fight will break out when I get my 20th SR5.

 

[phatduckk]

i just got done playing my bongo.

 

[1Echo]

Now imagine what it sounds like through a real amp.

And with a 5th string!

 

[Big Poppa]

Moral of the story is dont let your wife buy you a bass

 

[tkarter]

LOL@BP

tk

 

[Big Poppa]

TK are you and the boss coming to the desert?

 

[tkarter]

The boss hasn't let me know for sure yet BP. If there is any way possible though we will be there.

tk

 

[Big Poppa]

Tell the boss I miss her and that Kansas must be represented. Tell her you are delegates.

 

[tkarter]

I think I am going to try just booking the room.

tk

 

[bovinehost]

Bongos Good

 

[bassmonkeee]

I've told my fiancee more than once, "If you ever get a wild hair to buy me a bass, you know what to get, right?"

She always replies, "Yeah, yeah...Bongo, I know."

 

[T-bone]

Moral of the story is dont let your wife buy you a bass

So my wife bought me a bass for my 50th. LE Buttercream SR 4. Not only is she smart and attractive, but she loves my balls.

tbone (the perv)

 

[Psycho Ward]

Well I'm not going to ditch my Sterlings, I love them too much. But a Bongo is in a whole world of its own, I played my ButterCream Bongo 4 H/H all morning and it made me very happy, I'm going to take her out tomorrow night.

 

[Steamthief]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the Bongo I played was way lighter than my SR4.

I almost blew off a couple of sales calls this PM to go back to the GC and play it again through a real amp (SVT), as bovinehost suggested, but work = money, and money = buying things....

 

[Steamthief]

It's funny how I post about GAS for a new EBMM bass, then I'm magically promoted from Newbie to Junior Member!

Any chance I can get a Bongo 4HH in metalflake brown?

 

[roburado]

My mom, who didn't know a Music Man StingRay from a Corvette Stingray until last week, accompanied me on my survey of a few SoCal GCs. Her ears tell her Bongos are best.