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Stingray 5 Club!

#121
bovinehost said:
That peach is a rare bird!
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Thanks, it sure is!

This one popped up a few years ago in the Ernie Ball forum when a new user from Germany asked for help to identify some unusual appointments on his StingRay5, starting a lively discussion:

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A.J. from EBMM Customer Service then forwarded the photos to their chief design engineer, Dudley Gimpel, who authenticated it as a SR5 prototype.

The owner didn't want to sell initially but eventually I bought it from him last year.

I'm somewhat addicted to the Peach finish. Made between 1987 and 1989, in very small numbers. I also have a 1988 SR4, another SR5 (1989) and also a 1988 Sabre. Those took me years to find. The Peach Sabre is probably the rarest of the lot, I've only ever seen one other - the one Tony Levin is playing in the Peter Gabriel Live in Athens 1987 concert. There's some great footage in that film of Mr Levin with a whole bunch of fantastic Music Man basses!
 
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#122
Tony's burned up in a fire a few years ago along with some other really interesting basses. I saw (and smelled) it in San Luis Obispo in....2005, I think. He also had a different name for the finish, and it wasn't peach; it had to do with the naughty bits of Barbie, the doll. And I probably can be no more specific than that.
 
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bovinehost said:
Tony's burned up in a fire a few years ago along with some other really interesting basses. I saw (and smelled) it in San Luis Obispo in....2005, I think. He also had a different name for the finish, and it wasn't peach; it had to do with the naughty bits of Barbie, the doll. And I probably can be no more specific than that.
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Peter Gabriel and T Levin named it “Barbie Flesh”
 
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#127
After all these very rare basses, here's my bog standard ceramic SR5 from 2003. This bass has a monster tone and is still probably my favourite.

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.... with its very near relative - well about a month in 2003 and within the same couple of hundred serials

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#129
bovinehost said:
Tony's burned up in a fire a few years ago along with some other really interesting basses. I saw (and smelled) it in San Luis Obispo in....2005, I think. He also had a different name for the finish, and it wasn't peach; it had to do with the naughty bits of Barbie, the doll. And I probably can be no more specific than that.
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Thanks for the info, I didn't know Tony's Peach Sabre was damaged (lost?) in a fire. What a shame - such a sweet looking bass in that concert footage! Sounds great too, but anything in his hands would...

 
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What strings do folks here
prefer on your Stingray 5?
Just picked up that 88 Sr5 in the classifieds..(big thanks to Bardolphus!) killer sounding/playing Sr5.! Generally I love about any steel or nickel roundwound string by DR. or D’Addario.. most likely I’ll run 45-130’s,I just haven’t decided on which brand for my Stingray 5.
 
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#135
Afc70 said:
View attachment 3503599 View attachment 3503597 View attachment 3503595 What strings do folks here
prefer on your Stingray 5?
Just picked up that 88 Sr5 in the classifieds.. killer sounding/playing Sr5.! Generally I love about any steel or nickel roundwound string by DR. or D’Addario.. most likely I’ll run 45-130’s,I just haven’t decided on which brand for my Stingray 5.
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I can't remember if I told you (and don't think I did) - those are some fairly worn in Elixir nickel plated steels on that bass in the typical EBMM gauge - 45 65 80 100 130.
 
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