brooklynfall
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It's all Leo across the board anyway, and that's what's important to me!
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Big Poppa
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Let me give you another perspective......Ibanez thanks for stirring it up
My Dad was a steel guitarist that was gigging all over LA and playing on live tv and doing a bunch of sessions. The Korean war came along and my grandfather pulled some strings and got him into the Air Force Band as a Bass Drum player. He was stationed in Chandler Airzona and had the first two of three sons.....He carried and marched in the desert heat and it still beat going to Korea...He got sick and was diagnosed with Polio. It turned our to be a mild case but that made marching harder to say the least.
Freom Arizona he heard about this Leo Fender lguy and was facinated by the concept fo a solid body guitar. He went to visit leo on one of his breaks and started working with him as an artist and beta tester and that was something that I was fortunate to get to do with Music man later.
My dad was on from his involvement withLeo ,y dad saw an opportunity to sell these crazy blocks of wood when he got out of the Airtforce in 1953. That was the beginning of Ernie Ball....If it wasnt for that facination SLinkies would never have come to life or the many things that my dad accomplished. If it werent for my dad I probably would be askng you if you wanted fries with you order.
My Dad was a steel guitarist that was gigging all over LA and playing on live tv and doing a bunch of sessions. The Korean war came along and my grandfather pulled some strings and got him into the Air Force Band as a Bass Drum player. He was stationed in Chandler Airzona and had the first two of three sons.....He carried and marched in the desert heat and it still beat going to Korea...He got sick and was diagnosed with Polio. It turned our to be a mild case but that made marching harder to say the least.
Freom Arizona he heard about this Leo Fender lguy and was facinated by the concept fo a solid body guitar. He went to visit leo on one of his breaks and started working with him as an artist and beta tester and that was something that I was fortunate to get to do with Music man later.
My dad was on from his involvement withLeo ,y dad saw an opportunity to sell these crazy blocks of wood when he got out of the Airtforce in 1953. That was the beginning of Ernie Ball....If it wasnt for that facination SLinkies would never have come to life or the many things that my dad accomplished. If it werent for my dad I probably would be askng you if you wanted fries with you order.
ibanez2005
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Can i have extra mayonaise too and a side order of onion rings.
bassmonkey
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You'll have to forgive Ibanez, he's a Brummie, and Brummies tend to be quite blunt at times.
PS I'm a Brummie too
PS I'm a Brummie too
ibanez2005
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I aint no brummie. Im in lovely Dudley.
bassmonkey
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Hutton
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Perspective wins the day. Good post my friend.
We all have a great deal to owe to those who have gone before us. If we are lucky then our lessons are learnt in a positive way. Sadly, for some, life's experiences, are negative although that is still a lesson learnt. Better to learn how not to do it than not to learn at all. Whatever, has happened to us it is our job to improve and go forward whilst cherishing the traditions and things which we hold dear.
HornetAMX
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I, for one, used to be of the mindset that all things pre-EB were it. I have done a quick reversal thanks to this board and to posts like BP's. Plus, I bought and play a beautiful SR5 with my band and it is the best 5 string out there bar none. I am glad that EB took over Musicman. It keeps the name alive and they produce the best basses out there for the money. I made $1,400 and some change playing 6 gigs last month with my SR5. (it was a great December!)
azzy_wazzy
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prickly_pete
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Sorry, BP, I wasn't too clear with what I meant. The kids hanging out on the xbox and PS forums are obviously very young. A typical "conversation" (imagine air quotes there) is analogous to my dad can beat up your dad. I just thought one bass pissing all over another sounded like something from a 13 year-old xbox fanboy
You comments, as usual, were much more elegant, BP
ibanez2005
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Why does every word and sentence have to be analyzed to the n'th degree?
The Stingray pisses over most basses in my opionion, it can **** on them if that's what you like.
The Stingray pisses over most basses in my opionion, it can **** on them if that's what you like.
syciprider
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If Leo did not come up with the first Precision then someone would've done it for us anyway. Everything that was needed had been invented already. All that was required was to put them all together in a nice package.
Strangeglow
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Kind of like those flying cars I keep waiting for.
Innovations always seem obvious in hindsight - Leo made the innovations happen without that advantage. That's why what he did was special. You might say somebody would have done it eventually, but there are so many things which we consider basic and foundational which were once innovations. I think of math, physics, and geometry a lot - for example, it took people a long time to figure out that an object's acceleration due to gravity was independent of that object's mass. How hard would it have been for some Neanderthal to drop a big rock and a little rock and see that they hit the ground at the same time? But billions of people lived and died, questioned and searched, and until Galileo came along and showed the rest of us the way nobody was able to come up with that obvious little tidbit of knowledge about the way our universe operates.
bassmonkeee
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Why does every word and sentence have to be analyzed to the n'th degree?
The Stingray pisses over most basses in my opionion, it can **** on them if that's what you like.
You're right. Words and sentences are way overrated in a text based message forum.
I smell what you mean.
MingusBASS
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Ha! Oh how I enjoy your posts Jason.
SteveB
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Jason, I nearly busted a gut as I analyzed your textual absurdity!
Colin
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Is that why your forum name starts with i?The Stingray pisses over most basses in my opionion, it can **** on them if that's what you like.
Big Poppa
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Guys be nice. Ibanez dont be so sensitive. Im glad you stirred it up. As with most posts this one morphed into a chance for me to explain my feelings regarding Leo's paving the way for a lot of guys like me.
Three deep breaths a guiness and call me in the morning.
Three deep breaths a guiness and call me in the morning.
ibanez2005
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Is that why your forum name starts with i?
I guess your's starts with C for a reason then eh?
