Eldon Tyrell

Man, man, man. I am still looking for an 80s (hair) metal bass. There you go. Sorted 😁

The question is what is the question? 😎

The natural full-scale passive model has sold out now! 15 of the full-scale active model are still available. There are still plenty (32 for each active and passive) of the short-scale models left. Looks like people don't really link TC with a short-scale bass. I am pretty sure that if EBMM decides to have a regular TC sig model (like they did for Joe Dart, first limited edition, then regular model), then it will be the natural full-scale model with black hardware, maybe as an active (H or HH) model.

I still don't get why it is says "Badges! We don't need no stinking badges!" in the thread title. Why are they stinking and what are they stinking of? I cannot smell anything. I even sniffed the computer screen but just cannot smell anything. What am I doing wrong? Please help!

Ok, got my shipping notification. Should be here on Monday.

Mine still says : "Status: OP Processing". ☹️ Guess, I'll drop them an email.

Nope, nothing yet. Checked status in my MM account and it still says : "Status: OP Processing". Early morning in SoCal, they are 8 hrs behind us, so hope they'll ship it later today 🙂

you better don't tell this bloke:

Zombie Thread Alert 😁

Cool, so what did you get? Show us!!! 🙂

Is this referring to the "song" below? Man, you really need some mushrooms to make it through that song 😉

next you will be "Experienced" (11/14), then you will become a "Mentor" (not sure to whom though, 12/14), followed by becoming a Veteran (having survived many BC battles, I guess, 13/14) and finally a "Grand Master" (interestingly a term normally used for "a chess player of the highest class, especially one who has won an international tournament.2. the head of an order of chivalry or of Freemasons", e.g. the Jedi order, 14/14).

Do you mean the height of the string saddles? For that you can use these: 1.5mm or 1/16'' Allen key More info about all tech stuff: Manual halfpage.pmd (spectorbass.com)

Agree, a lot is really just tongue in cheek, party due to Chad's uncanny resemblance to dogs 😉

Yeah, hate is the wrong word. I don't hate any band. They're just not my cup of (Earl Grey) tea 😉 There are several Canadian rock bands I like much more: Tea Party, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, Matthew Good Band, Moist etc. etc.

You should give Nickelback another chance. According to the NME, they are taking their time working on a new album "because they don't want to make "a shitty record" 🙂 Nickelback reveal that they're working on a new album (nme.com)

The short-scale & active really needs a promo video as it is selling rather poorly at the moment: From EBMM's website: Tim Commerford | Basses | Ernie Ball Music Man (music-man.com) 1) long-scale & active: 25 (out of 50) remaining 2) long-scale & passive: 10 (out of 50) remaining 3) short-scale & active: 36 (out of 50) remaining 4) short-scale & passive: 33 (out of 50) remaining Looks like the long-scale & active model (natural finish and black hardware) is by far the most popular choice. When I first checked EBMM's website for the TC models On Thursday morning, I saw that for all four models it said: "39 Instruments Remaining Limited to 50 Worldwide" I guess that EBMM put 11 instruments aside, maybe for YTubers, magazine reviews etc. So, assuming that only 39 instruments were available for purchase from the beginning (the current numbers above show that the four models are selling very unequally, so it is unlikely that they all sold 11 each and then demand suddenly changed significantly), the actual sales numbers are currently as follows: 1) long-scale & active: 14 sold 2) long-scale & passive: 29 sold 3) short-scale & active: 3 sold 4) short-scale & passive: 6 sold Total sales: 52 Looks like the short-scale & active model really needs a promo video 😉

So far, three Youtubers were given TC's basses to review. 1) Amos Heller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_G5j9VhWk short scale & passive 2) Patrick Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_Ys2xMYlQ long-scale & active 3) The Bass Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lY8445YfDg long-scale & passive So, we still need one video for the short-scale and active model. Interestingly, all of them were given "nr 12 of 50" to review:

There are four models in total: Long-scale & active, long-scale & passive, short-scale & active and short-scale & passive. For me these four models are Timmy C's "Best of" Stingray basses as he combines features from the recent Stingray Special (neodymium pickup, the newly sculptured neck point, the roasted maple neck, the lightweight tuners and the newly voiced 18v preamp (for the active models)) with features from the Stingray Classic (the old string-through bridge, the mute pads and the old MM logo on the headstock). To that he then adds his choice of finishes (e.g. natural and black hardware, not been available before) and his finger ramp. Pretty cool combination of features. Check out this video where he explains it all:

The new TC sig bass (long-scale and passive model) in action:

Yes, that was pretty good too. However, the way he appeared in the video looked a bit like he was floating around. A bit like these Chinese officials inspecting a road some years ago:

That was pretty good. Before watching the video, I thought MJ was referring to Mick Jagger as the singer looks a bit like him 🙂

YES, space travel would be great. As our earth is not going to last forever (as we discussed before), we need to find another planet. We should send some people, let's say the middle management, to colonize a new world for us (see below, from 01:20): https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchans

Yeah, I also did not get the short-scale and TC connection. However, yesterday over at TB, alexclaber, Director-Barefaced LTD, posted (and I hope it is ok to post that here): "He loves the shortscales, he's been raving about them at me for the last 18 months [...]. He's been playing the shortscale with Wakrat (and now in the new group), and he was debating taking some shortscales on the now postponed RATM tour. I think that "and now in the new group" must be 7D7D, as mentioned on EBMM's website: "Tim Commerford, the legendary bassist of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and his newest project, 7D7D." I checked youtube but could not find any 7D7D video.