UPDATE Jan 7 Anniversary Bass preview

[T-bone]

I'd like to sign up to host a "Tupperware" party here in Portland. Skip San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver BC (eh) and bring that bad boy to Stumptown. I'll sell em!

tbone

 

[boombox]

WOW! I’m speechless! This is great stuff!

BP, bring that thing over I think its podcast time!

 

[Smakbass]

Very cool I agree that moving forward is better than making a take on what someone else has done..

 

[oddjob]

WOW! I think that says it all. I had a Fender HM as a main bass back in the early 90s. 3 passive jazz pups with a modified 7 position toggle - and for a jazz it was cool. This looks to blow it and everything else out of the water. I can't wait. Thanks for sharing BP!

 

[Psychicpet]

Like the rocker switches for the pickups....we are considering them. The problem is that lets say you have just the neck pickup on and you accidentally hit the switch you have turned off the bass. While some may love to be able to turn the bass off I think this is a disaster. Can you imagine in the middle of a perfect take or solo your bass goes dead? So Dudley calls me the next day and say "I figured out how to get what you want....If you turn all of them off it becomes the selector for the bridge and middle pickup in series /passive. It is currently my favorite setting.

Nuts, just plain nuts!!

I'd like to sign up to host a "Tupperware" party here in Portland. Skip San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver BC (eh) and bring that bad boy to Stumptown. I'll sell em!

tbone

that's quite alright... I will gladly drive to Portland and points beyond for a sneak peek at the triple-single and a lettuce spinner!

ps. somebody w/photoshop skillz... please doing something fitting of the new bass and BP w/ this pic

 

[Sweat]

All I can say is wow, call as hell proto, love the look, another reason to maybe learn the Bass, all I can say is I hope to get an invite to the tupperware party

 

[hankSRay]

I think its totally cool that you guys are doing a passive instrument. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love each preamp you guys use but always wished there was a passive switch just to see what it would do to the tone.

Thanks for sharing this with us BP!

 

[oli@bass]

We arent [...] getting sax players to play in tune..

What a bummer!


Still, thanks for sharing! It would have been cool to get an Albert Lee shaped bass for the 25th, but I'm sure you'll cook something up I would like to get served anyways.

 

[ronnyG]

Active, Shmactive. I am digging on the 3 pickups. My mind can only imagine the tonal possiblilites. And I would buy that bass as an alternative to cutting extra pickups into one of my basses, which I was thinking of doing as an experiment, but glad BP is doing it before I butchered one of mine up in the quest for more tone.

 

[adouglas]

I am going to do something different with this bass too....When it is done Dudley and I are going to take this bass to about five cities and show it to the people and talk about it. Jack (or Erika) doesnt know it and neither does Beaver or Pete or James and Brandt and a few others but we are going to have "tupperware parties" and show it to the diehards first.

I think I'm the second-closest knucklehead to Pete's shop.

That could be a really good thing, assuming that it might be the location of one of said T-ware parties and further assuming that somebody might let me know about it.

I promise to leave the turkey at home.

Really.

 

[Frankie5Angels]

Wow that looks cool! Can you do one in short scale?

 

[Psychicpet]

Wow that looks cool! Can you do one in short scale?

they do, it's called the Albert Lee signature guitar

remember, this is basses we's talkin' about. (34 or more...)

 

[Frankie5Angels]

remember, this is basses we's talkin' about. (34 or more...)

What, you never heard of a short-scale bass? The Rodney Dangerfield of the music world (us short-scale bassists).

 

[phatduckk]

..When it is done Dudley and I are going to take this bass to about five cities and show it to the people and talk about it.

I'll be more than happy to come to SLO and give you the punk rock guys' feedback

 

[syciprider]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I mean boooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

*snip*.

Yes! I can definitely justify "yet another MM" now that BP has out and said that this one will be voiced differently from what I presently have

 

[Laredo]

Very Nice.................

......................Love the Albert Lee style body (keep it as an option, please) and the S/S/S Pickup configuration! I will have to own one of these! Man, I just ordered my Bongo 6, now I see this thread....................It never ends!

 

[sloshep]

OK, Now I'm getting excited. I love the idea of this bass even more. I could totally get into a active/ passive kind of vibe with a little less treble. Any plans to do any "Tupperware" in California?

 

[Duarte]

THIS may just be the perfect bass...

Looks kinda bootsy, all those pickups!

 

[Dr Stankface]

This begs the question (and please shoot me if this has been answered)...



5 string?????

I'm getting one whether it's a 4 or 5 but hot damn i'd love another 5.

 

[RaginRog]

eh....what about

Personally, the body shape is very ZZ top. The one thing that always draws me to EB products is the traditional look, and the oval shaped pickguard. Aesthetics aren't quite there because the body shape does not compliment the headstock.

I think perhaps mass producing a SR shape with binding, as well ass the 3 single pickup combination would suit the EB line. Perhaps try and steal some of Rickenbackers fans. Who the hell wants to wait 6-8 months for their bass to be built???? lol