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bovinehost

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Dargin, a few days ago, asked me what my shipping address was. "I have a Valentines Day present for you", he said, and it turned out to be a pickguard for the blue pearl Bongo - abalone, and it looks great, as you boys already know.

A day or two after that, I was yacking with BP about one thing or another while I was getting ready for a band rehearsal and we were talking about all the BS on the forum a while back, ahem. He said, "I have a little something for you for all the work you've done on the forum."

I said, "Sterling, I'm looking at a Logan Green Bongo with red flames right NOW. You owe me nothing, I promise you." He said something like, yeah, yeah, whatever, but I want you to know I appreciate it.

I'm smart enough to not argue with him, usually.

But I really thought it was that pickguard and that communications between BP and Dargin had broken down. Hey, it happens.

Tonight, I walk in after a trying day with language training specialists and there's a box, a big box, just inside the door.

Now, most of you will remember the BP Bongo at the Open House.

If you don't, it looks an awful lot like this.

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In fact, it looks EXACTLY like that. Graphite Pearl Bongo 4 single hummer! Luckily, the band rehearsed tonight and guess what I played all night?

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I don't want this to get out, but I was even slapping and popping the thing in honor of our host.

Those danged roundwounds scared my band, but they eventually came 'round.

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BP, as Todd Rundgren once said in song, "There are no words."

I will treasure this forever. Did you get Jeremy's message on the phone? He left you a message, which was this: "Thank you, Sterling, for the new Bongo."

For four years old, he wrapped it all up nicely.

You rock, sir.

Jack
 

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Wow!

It's pretty cool to see what happens when a couple of classy people get together.

Sterling and Jack - you both kick ass!!!!
 

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Congrats, Jack - I still want to give a single H Bongo 4 a spin someday. I wonder what BP will be playing now?
 

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1. Can't sell the Jazz that Erika bought for me way back when. It never gets played, but what can I do?

2. Can't sell Heinz, because that is the 'ugliest finish' EBMM ever produced. Plus the poor thing traveled all over the US and came back to me - clearly my bass.

3. Can't sell the Flaming Biff Bongo. Absolutely the coolest bass in my life.

4. Can't sell this one......means too much. Even with rounds!

5. Can't sell the original Sapphire Black Bongo....best bass I ever owned.

It's good to be faced with such dilemmas.

Sterling and Jack - you both kick ass!!!!

Don't know about me, but I can tell you that BP certainly does.

This is maybe how people end up with so many "keepers".

I can't even tell you how stoked I am tonight.

Jack
 

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1. Can't sell the Jazz that Erika bought for me way back when. It never gets played, but what can I do?

You're stuck with it I'm afraid Jack.


<---Things were never the same between Dee and I after I sold that green T-Bird.
 

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Wow, Congrats Jack, you certainl deserve it, and there's something just so fairytale about you ending up with that. Enjoy it Lord Bongo. :):)
 

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You really do deserve it, my friend.


the I'll give you a free car wash if you come to Paris!,
 

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Cop that Big Ballz! (it's an Aussie expression that basically means sucked in) All he tried to do was hurt Jack and be negative, look at the positive outcome. Great story.
 

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Note to self: "Must get to Jack's before he changes strings on new Biff Tribute Bongo."
 

Steve Dude Barr

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All he tried to do was hurt Jack and be negative, look at the positive outcome. Great story.

Those guys are a dime a dozen....got a new one over on The Pit tonight calling Patsie an idiot....well, we know he is but that's besides the point.

I've seen em come and I've seen em go over the years and BB's was not really even a very "good" troll really...rank amateur but Jack here handled it with class and BP did likewise!!
 
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strummer

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This is totally unreal!
Not only does this forum have the best moderator ever, but the owner too:D

Jack: You deserve it!

Big Poppa: You continue to impress and surprise!

You guys are the best!

Now I only want to know if that is the same bass BP played, or it's twin.

Again, wow to it all!
 

roballanson

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That is just a truely fantastic thing. Jack the work you have done is magnificent and I really enjoy chatting to people here.

Sterling - you are the man (if only there was not a blockade on Cuban trade I would send you some cigars;) )

Enjoy it Jack
 
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