UPDATE Jan 7 Anniversary Bass preview

[Psychicpet]

 

[tkarter]

I was expecting a 36 volt preamp.



tk

 

[fidooda]

yikes! amazing....

is that the first time we've seen a mohagony tone block?

 

[Psychicpet]

Here are some updates for your viewing pleasure! My fav is the BP pile'o'protos....

looking at this pic makes me think that things haven't changed much since these two were 15

just a bigger 'garage' to jam in and more tools than all the dads in the neighbourhood

 

[pepperman]

That is a VERY cool instrument! Pops, did you say there would be a 5ver version? Also, are you planning a pickguard or "au natural"?

 

[Big Poppa]

there will be a 5er and no pickguard...oh yeah they will have the bongo neck carve and nut (right in between the stingray and the sterling.....

 

[Psychicpet]

there will be a 5er and no pickguard...oh yeah they will have the bongo neck carve and nut (right in between the stingray and the sterling.....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


and no finish 'cept oil n' wax!!??!!??!!


OMGosh!!!! THE best neck shape for a 5'er out there!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

 

[Big Poppa]

yes oil and wax...im giong to bed...see you knucks in a few hours

 

[Psychicpet]

Thanks again for all of the updates BP and for more peeks behind the curtain!

 

[RobertB]

oh yeah they will have the bongo neck carve and nut

shaWING!!

 

[Frantic Slayer]

I want!!!!

 

[strummer]

All this is so brilliantly cool!

 

[Grand Wazoo]

What will be the actual name of this bass, i.e. Sabre, StingRay etc? I mean will it have a particular name of just 25th Anniversary MM?

 

[fly]

un.

freakin'.

real...........

 

[Frantic Slayer]

how long is this going to be available?

 

[bovinehost]

how long is this going to be available?

If history provides us any lessons, it will be available to order as of NAMM in January and the order window will close once the production schedule fills to the point of the instruments not being deliverable in 2009.

In other words, if instruments ordered in, say, July are scheduled to be built/delivered in December, the order window will close about, oh, July.

(Not that July has any significance, just using it to illustrate the point.)

Because you wouldn't want 25th Anniversary instruments being delivered during the 26th year, right?

This is how it's gone in the past. I stand ready to be corrected if this is incorrect.

 

[Duarte]

I'm SO excited now!

MAN am I looking forward to this bass?

I am.

 

[Thornton Davis]

I know that BP has said there will be a 5 string version available, but I wonder if there's a prototype of one in existance yet? And better yet, photos of it. Oh be still my beating heart!

TD

 

[tiffles]

WOW.

WOW.

WOW!!!



ps. i love the poppa and protos photo. and alliteration.

 

[smallequestrian]

If history provides us any lessons, it will be available to order as of NAMM in January and the order window will close once the production schedule fills to the point of the instruments not being deliverable in 2009.

In other words, if instruments ordered in, say, July are scheduled to be built/delivered in December, the order window will close about, oh, July.

(Not that July has any significance, just using it to illustrate the point.)

Because you wouldn't want 25th Anniversary instruments being delivered during the 26th year, right?

This is how it's gone in the past. I stand ready to be corrected if this is incorrect.

Of course BP said at one point that there would be the 25th anniversary version, and then after that they would offer a "regular" production version as a regular member of the stable.