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Thunderbird Club
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And most importantly IN BLACK!!
I like the yellow on the Bongo. I think Stealth Black is best, though.
Actually you can get any EBMM in any of their colours. So you can even get a StingRay in yellow. Hell you can order it with an ebony fretboard and tort pg.... I mean clear, or black, or white, or any of their other colour pg's
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Sorry, I appreciate the thought, but the only Fenders I'll have are the ones on my Subarus.
I've owned 3, gave them a fair try and moved on to what I know is a better bass for me
And they're YELLOW
I have three rules of bass acquisition:
Not black,
Not white, and
Not grey.
I have broken those rules twice. O
ne of those times for a Thunderbird. One of those times for the Gibson with the prismatic finish. So, the exceptions were for exceptional basses.
Yellow would be cool.
I only have two basses that don't break those rules
a burst and a trans blue
I have two rules for basses I own. 1) I like how they look, and 2) I like how they play/sound. I could not care less what other people think.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Sweetwater has 'burst and black 2018 Thunderbirds now. $2K, but so it goes. If you want a brand, spaking new one, there are three colors now.
I'm really drool over the red one. But the rosewood board kills it for me
I've thought of buying a stark white Bongo bass and putting a pale yellow (piss in the toilet bowl) pickguard on it. As good as they sound and play, I just can't get past the toilet seat design.I think those Bongo basses look like a toilet seat with an attached neck...
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I tried to tell 'em, your Highness...Sorry, I appreciate the thought, but the only Fenders I'll have are the ones on my Subarus.
I've owned 3, gave them a fair try and moved on to what I know is a better bass for me
Oh @Gaolee
I just finished playing the ACC for a few minutes, in the small room just to test the volume pot..... it is definitely NOT a bad pot. I turned it up to noon, and a little past, just for grins.... I thought the floor was going to explode!
I just finished playing the ACC for a few minutes, in the small room just to test the volume pot..... it is definitely NOT a bad pot. I turned it up to noon, and a little past, just for grins.... I thought the floor was going to explode!
Dude I can tell you that my Thunderbirds neck pickup now located in the bridge slot on my P/J offers a menacing screech from hell, in certain notes you can hear something that is unlike a typical bass note, its like some kind of effects pedal and it reminds me of a sci-fi movie with some jumbo jet sized electronic Tarodactyl exhaling lazers. It is so unique that Im torn on what bass Im supposed to use for recording with my bands debut material.
Yup, she ain't a maple pea slingin girl at all.
That would look nicer tethered to an anvil as its falling from an airplane about to greet the concrete for a millisecond before its blown to smithereens.
That's just uncalled for. What did the anvil ever do to deserve that?
I apologize, that was uncalled for. Just because I had a long miserable blue collar type day doesnt give me the right to diss some poor old anvil.That's just uncalled for. What did the anvil ever do to deserve that?
Just love the "available soon", but it seems what ever red ones they had, are gone, "more on the way".
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Can anybody tell me whynahell these friggin' Bongo basses are still in production... or for that matter... why they ever went into production??? Do they have mystic powers or sup'm? I mean... they're SO, like... cartoon fugly! Do they sound and/or play so well that people are willing to endure the ridicule? Is there a sufficient number of circus-themed novelty acts in the world, to actually support the product line? Please! ANYBODY... help me understand why there was ever any more than one of these things built, before I go to my grave!
"Different", and "unique" are wonderful qualities to have... but just being unique or different doesn't mean it's automatically a good idea. To the best of my recollection... I've never seen one in the hands of anybody who wasn't being compensated in some way for having been photographed with it. Knowing it has an 18V active system in it, is all the more reason to avoid it IMHO. first thing I'd wanna do, is rip all that crap outa there & run a simple passive system in it. I'm not a big fan of complex wiring, batteries, on-board pre amps & all that other PIA stuff that's just aching to go wrong at the worst possible time. I'm adequately "entertained" by 2 passive pickups going through volume, blend, and tone pots (one of each will suit me just fine). I'm perfectly happy with any other tone shaping coming from what's onboard the amp. Maybe that makes me a "simple" man, but I'm just fine with that. Way I figger... if ya hafta keep piling frosting on the cake just to make it palatable... maybe yer cake sucks! Being a Music man... I'm sure it's a quality piece... but DAYUM... ya know? If it had a spectacular neck on it, and sounded amazing, I would play one... but I'd always be wondering, "Why does it have to look like THIS?"
So... I guess you really don’t like MM Bongo’s?
I'm really drool over the red one. But the rosewood board kills it for me
Really dig the black one.
I played bongos once - they thought I was the drummer and fired me.
