My eyes are still burning

I saw a Fender P that was some lighter shade of blue/green in the GC, the other day, that had a red tort pickguard on it. It made me have feelings similar to those you experienced.

 

lame, cheezy 80's black w/red crackle. Substitute any color.

 

I played a Dolphin yesterday that had a glossy Turquoise finish. The color made me want to gag, but the rest of the bass made up for it.

Guess there's no accounting for taste.

 

Well, if you don't count the cheesy '80's finishes ("gorefest" or "crackle", anyone?), I have a real aversion to most "custom color" (LPB, CAR, etc.) Fenders a tortie pickguard. Not sure why--I like the colors well enough, and tortie guards too, but not together. OTOH, I used to hate Olympic white with a tortie guard and now it's really grown on me, so tastes definately change.

Mike

 

I don't like Red basses with Tort guards.

 

Me either, now that you mention it. The only colors I like tort guards on are variations of white.

 

dark pink with a white pickguard, i think it was a fender jazz

 

White, natural, and 'burst for me, thanks.

Mike

 

And black!

 

Don't like white basses, unless it's aged to a sickly off-white (dunno why!) Not a huge fan of tort pickguards either.

Also basses with cheeseball '80s Jackson-style body graphics... ugh. You know, fire and skulls and stuff. Makes me want to take the pointy headstock that these basses inevitably come with and poke my eyes out with it.

 

No.

 

I don't understand. It wasn't a stock Bongo? There was something weird and/or ugly about it? Had it been defaced or modified in some way that cause it to be unattractive?

Someone clear this up for me.

 

I agree.

Though now that I think about it, I do like the look of Chris Chaney's blue P-bass with tort pickguard.

 

My favorite bass color is white. My most hated is those puke pastel colors Fender keeps coming out with. Yuck!

 

I'm just trying to understand what a weird Bongo looks like, Bob. I'm absolutely stumped.



Now here's a NORMAL Desert Gold Bongo. You're saying that something was wrong with the one you saw? What a shame.

Help me, Bob. I just want to understand.

(You knew I wouldn't let it go, didn't you?)