since no one else is saying anything... (NAMM)

[Assumer]

That I'm one of very few JB-2 owners that is truly satisfied with the bass as it is.

I own both an L2K and a JB-2. I love both of them....but I REALLY love the the JB-2...I've written about it several times mostly on the old Dudepit but on this forum as well. Simply a phenomenal, phenomenal instrument. I love the fact that it is passive, I like the pickups...MFD they are not....for me they are perfect for the jazz voicing of the bass. The JB-2 is very unforgiving of bad technique, but the bass just freakin' sings. Unbelievable slap tone as well. Records like a dream. (Also doesn't hurt that it weighs right at 8 pounds - incredibly comfortable to wear).

Count me as very happy with my JB-2.

On the new bass, while it's probably a good marketing strategy, I'm with Chef on this one.

Just my .02 - carry on.

Jay

I'm with ya. Recently added an L2000 to the stable and love it but the JB-2 is still my fav.

 

[fourstringbliss]

and a tribute:

Am I right in thinking that's a mahogany Tribby L2000?

 

[Chef]

IMO: appears to be ash, stained to look like mahogany.

At least, none of my mahogany basses have grain anything like that.

 

[fourstringbliss]

IMO: appears to be ash, stained to look like mahogany.

At least, none of my mahogany basses have grain anything like that.

Good point - that's an ashy grain, huh?

They put out a mahogany bodied Tribby L2500 and I'm all over it!

 

[El Tookay]

IMO: appears to be ash, stained to look like mahogany.

At least, none of my mahogany basses have grain anything like that.

.....yep, mahogany just doesn't have that kind of figuring, that's ash. You can find Rosewood, Kingwood, and Padauk with that kind of figuring and coloration, but i really doubt you'd ever see those on a Tribby. Big coin for that kind of foo-foo lumber.

 

[fourstringbliss]

.....yep, mahogany just doesn't have that kind of figuring, that's ash. You can find Rosewood, Kingwood, and Padauk with that kind of figuring and coloration, but i really doubt you'd ever see those on a Tribby. Big coin for that kind of foo-foo lumber.

Ah, who needs it? I like how fancy basses look, but I have no need to play a coffee table.

 

[spideyjg]

Am I right in thinking that's a mahogany Tribby L2000?

Walnut stained, little to no finish. Not a 'hog.

Jim

 

[vespasian1]

JB..... *explodes* I wonder how close they made it to a Jazz.

What kind of wood is that Tribute?

Walnut stained swamp ash.

http://www.rocketmusic.net/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=1034

 

[jbrewer3]

Seriously:
Bring back the El Toro as their "new jazz!"

Here's two ways to improve the old Toro:
add passive tone to tame the "over the top" active treble a bit...
change the series mode such that you can still select which pikcup you want.

A lightly tweaked 5 string Toro with a revised, moder neck profile (NOT the archaic L2500 2x4 neck profile!!!) would be a huge winner.

Now you're talking Chef!

 

[Joebone]

I've never heard or played the El Toro, but am convinced that Chef and others singing that song, in connection with a J-type G&L, are truly on to something.

I've been through a few L-2000's and JB-2's. I'm now parked with a Fender Roscoe Beck IV, which works very well in many ways, but I miss some of that G&L character. But what the RBIV has over the G&L's --for me, right now -- is a set of pickups that provide a nice balance of oomph and precision - in contrast, the JB-2 pickups struck me as a little lightweight, and on the MFD pickups, to get the warmth I wanted, I sacrificed clean sustain and quick attacks.

If those El Toro pickups provide something along the lines of the what the RBIV offers in comparison with the MFD or JB-2, with those other groovy features that G&L gets right (and by the way, I love the G&L body shape as in the JB-2 and L2k, so the heck with copying the Fender Jazz body!) then a G&L package offering such pickups would command some serious attention!

 

[stflbn]

I also wish they'de expand their line-up to more 5-strings. If they did I'd definitely consider them. As is, I don't really need another P-bass, and don't want a 4-string jazz, and have a HH bass I like.