Tuesday's Tourture...

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Ok we have to have someone write the book about EBMM , I can clearly see it with full sized photos and comments of Dudley and BP on each guitar.

I would seriously buy that book. will it have a pic of the swamp ash bongo?

 

[Big Poppa]

GARY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!!!!!! He is on his was to meet with the brain surgeons.
(that is industry insider speak for meeting with Guitar Center) My liver can rest and my wallet can recharge....

 

[SteveB]

GARY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!!!!!! He is on his was to meet with the brain surgeons.
(that is industry insider speak for meeting with Guitar Center) My liver can rest and my wallet can recharge....

BP,

One of my favorite SNL skits was one where John Belushi played the title character in a segment called "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave".

It was about someone who came to visit, overstayed his welcome, and was completely oblivious to any hints dropped to inspire him to go home.

Sound like Gary?

 

[Big Poppa]

Exactly

 

[Guitarburetor]

That is such a beautiful body shape.

Now Dudley, what did Ernie think of that COLOR?

Ern was more of a Sunburst kinda guy. We also have a Natural Poplar body Silhouette that Ern requested. We had a board that was dark green to black in color, and he asked for a body made with it.

 

[Guitarburetor]

the precursor shape to our (fat-stringed brehtren/sistren) beloved StingRay5 body!!
very nice. has Benji Madden ever seen it??

Nope, Benji's never seen this particular guitar.

 

[Guitarburetor]

This is beautiful! I've wondered what this guitar looked like for YEARS!!!

For future Tuesday Torture reference: Dudley mentions that this one was shown at the Summer 1985 NAMM... Another proto I'd be very interested in seeing pics of is mentioned in a blurb on EBMM from the Inside NAMM article in Guitar Player, September 1986. They mention two unnamed models, "in rounded and angular body shapes"... They go on: "The angular but well-balanced model has a 22-fret fingerboard. With a Schaller locking tremolo, it retails for $595.00 ($495.00 without tremolo). Both instruments are available with maple or rosewood fingerboards." The picture of the "rounded" model accompanying the text is clearly a Silhouette, but I've contended for years that the "angular" model is the first "Albert Lee" (Née Axis) that they're writing about, and I'd love to have my assumptions confirmed (or dispelled)...

You are correct! The Albert Lee guitar shape was designed in 1987, pretty much at the same time as the Sting Ray 5 Bass. It was named "Axis" soon after it's inception, but the first prototypes of the guitar only said Ernie Ball / Music Man on the headstock.

The original Axis was to be made in Canada (neck and body), and assembled in the US, allowing us to offer it at these lower prices. The deal never worked out for production, as we were not satisfied with consistency of the vendor. There are perhaps a dozen early Axis prototypes that were made in our factory, and maybe 6 prototypes of the Canadian version that got completed and are out there somewhere. I will post some pics of these early models in the next few days.

 

[NorM]

1985!? (NorM does math in his head quietly)
Whoa!

That color is just eye magnet magenta to be sure. I really like the pup cover too. That's my kinda history there. So the poplar natural silo? All I can say is MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
9 days to SLOville

 

[Psychicpet]

I would seriously buy that book. will it have a pic of the swamp ash bongo?

aww man... I try to forget daily that there is a natural ash Bongo in existence, why bring it up!!


mmmm.... natural Bongo5...... tort p/g ....... chrome knobs....... ahhhhhhhhhhh


heheheheeh