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#35,782
Off-Beat said:
I actually like LPB and CAR aged or not, their best colours imo.
Second pic looks pretty cool.



Back when I started I wanted to have a Fiesta Jazz MIM. Was a nice bass, but little did I know back then.

I wanted something different for quite a while now(a 2x single coil bass actually), but never found another FSO like that one, so I guess it just wasn't ment for me.

The Woody definately is something different and I can comfortably live with that - single coils or not.
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Big fan of LPB myself, now if the new Vintage Pro were to be available in that color..........
 
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#35,783
JJR58 said:
Big fan of LPB myself, now if the new Vintage Pro were to be available in that color..........
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Gibson's version was Pelham Blue and was slightly lighter. I find it a little nicer
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#35,784
Off-Beat said:
haha guy at thomann said there's no case availabe. Obviously you know their shop better. :p

If it's Nitro-safe I guess it won't yellow the poly either.
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No need to worry about the cases - I have two alpine whites in their original Epi cases and there's is no discoloration of the birds.
 
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#35,785
kat888 said:
If it were chrome, possibly. But I have neither the space, nor the funds, having just spent that sort of money on my custom built 'dream' bass. There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes - the white vintage-style one ... because Overend (even though it will be a IV not a II).

Once my mind is made up and I'm set on something, the distractions tend to get shut out. I decided I wanted an NR41 quite early in the piece, the hardest thing after that was deciding on the colour - midnight blue, some sort of pelham-ish blue, bright yellow or red, ummm errrrr, ummmmm, RED!
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Well... if you factor in the "N+1" formula... what I'm hearing is, "I can't get the cherry one until after I've gotten the the new Vintage Pro". Of course, @RedVee has "red" right in his name! Maybe he should rush over there & grab it!;)
 
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Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
Gibson's version was Pelham Blue and was slightly lighter. I find it a little nicer
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Thank you for that.

theFixer said:
Well... if you factor in the "N+1" formula... what I'm hearing is, "I can't get the cherry one until after I've gotten the the new Vintage Pro". Of course, @RedVee has "red" right in his name! Maybe he should rush over there & grab it!;)
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Maybe I should. Cherry is current top of my T'Bird colour 'hit parade'....

Only have a couple of difficulties with the actualisation of that.
 
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#35,792
theFixer said:
That's what I've been doing thus far. They've just gotta hate me over there. I bought my first bass at GC. It was an Ibanez TMB-100 that I bought off the wall. Then, in my search for a better bass without spending more money, I found a KSD Burner online, so I returned the Ibanez & ordered that in. I repeated that cycle 4 more times before finding this Goth. If you subtract the amount I spent on shipping these various basses...I never spent over $300.00 total! I'm amazed that they don't run the other direction when they see me walk in the joint!

Keeping in mind that I'm only a few months into my journey as a bass player... I'd really like to find a place where I can walk in & see a good variety of basses. I wanna get my hands on 'em & see what's what. I wanna feel the necks, compare pickups, & all that stuff, just to get a sense of what the various manufacturers and models are bringing to the table.
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Don't know if someone is saying this after your post, but how far are you from Chicago? The basement at Chicago Music Exchange comes to mind. And I understand there are a couple of other good stores there.
 
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#35,795
Haji said:
The bottom line is that the low end sells much more quickly, and in much greater numbers, than the top and does. That's true in every segment of every market. It's also why the typical guitar shop only had a few basses and they're made by Ibby, Skwar, and maybe MIM Bumper Yazz Basses. That stuff moves. It's a rare shop that can afford to stock lots of the top end; it ties up cash flow and doesn't turn very fast...especially in a soft economy.
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There is also a better profit on the cheaper stuff, in part because it turns faster and in part because it does not tie up cash

Haji said:
I'm pretty tired of blek, whut, and burpst as color options...but they are what moves. I was in the specialty cutlery industry for a decade. Market research showed that customers wanted more color options in pocket knives, so companies geared up and offered them. They were good shades of good colors, and I liked 'em a lot. But when it came to buying time, stainless and black finishes outsold the colors ten or twenty to one. It's gotta be just as hard, if not harder, to do something new in music gear, where guitarists want brand new, state of the art of 1959 stuff.
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Yep, my rule is not white, not black, not grey but I still ended up with one white and one black. 50% are rule breakers.

Market research is a lot like computer programming. Garbage in - garbage out. Having done a fair bit of market research, I know that it is important to ask the right questions of the right people. And sometimes it is not obvious who you should be asking. And if you just ask consumers, they will tell you what they think, but the behaviour can be quite different. And the last thing, make sure you are using good consultants; the idiots will produce garbage even from good raw data.

theFixer said:
My GC has a million dollars worth of Les Pauls priced over $2,500.00 hanging on the wall, plus a metric crap ton of "regular" Gibson 6-stringers... but not one Gibson bass. I asked them if they were gonna get one of the new Epi VPs in stock when they're released. "No" was the reply. It's no wonder Skwar, Ibby, an so on, are the number one sellers. That's all that's being offered!
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JJR58 said:
Not really man, the usual suspects carry pretty much the same as you describe where you live, the real emphasis is on FSO guitars and spendy Les Pauls, usually not much in the way of basses.
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Yep, the high end Gibsons sell. But, I would bet that the authorized dealer contract differs in one respect between Gibson and Fender - I would bet that the Fender contract requires the stores to carry the full line - at least one of each model.

Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
Home alone for the next at least 24 hours, no neighbours... it's about to get LOUD :bassist:
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For me that is almost any day! The neighbors know what I am playing...
 
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PillO said:
For me that is almost any day! The neighbors know what I am playing...
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My closest neighbour is probably half a kilometre :cautious:, only thing keeping me from turning it up to 11 all the time is my mom doesn't appreciate my kind of music... or music at all really. My dad encourages the loudness. But headphones are cheaper than renting a house.
 
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theFixer said:
Nah man... they exist! For realzies! I've been in a couple of 'em down in Hot'lanta! Apparently ya hafta go south of the Manson/Nixon line to find 'em:bassist:
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MCF said:
Don't know if someone is saying this after your post, but how far are you from Chicago? The basement at Chicago Music Exchange comes to mind. And I understand there are a couple of other good stores there.
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JJR58 said:
That is a very good idea, if you can swing the trip Fix.......
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theFixer said:
Ya know... I hadn't considered Chi-Town, but it's not that much further than D-Town. I'll hafta see if I can round up a posse & make the trip!:thumbsup:
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That's exactly what I was going to say. You don't have to go to Mason-Dixon Line, just head to Chicago but make sure to rob a bank on the way there.
 
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