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Dargie Delight Single Humbucker Bongo
5
Since the Candy
Red single H Bongo 5 went into semi-retirement, I had been a little
short, I guess you might say, on giggable Secret Weapons. (This
is the code name
that Sterling and I use to refer to any single
humbucker Bongo, although mostly
he means a four string model.
Only sissies play fivers, so take that, Tony Levin.)
In
July of 2009, Jason Shewmake (bassmonkeee man) decided he wasn't
properly
bonding with this one, so emails and PMs and phone calls began
to fly across the
globe. Somehow, Magnus Fredholm in Sweden ended
up with Heinz the
Wonder
Bass (he does get around) and I ended up with this, although I
think I remember
promising Jason some old Blue Boy magazines,
too.
During the summer of 2009, I looked around and realized
that I didn't have a
single "Dargie
Delight" bass. I'd ordered a dual humbucker Stingray 5
but when
it comes to SR5s, I am but a simple man and discovered I
really preferred the
point and shoot simplicity of the single humbucker
model. So that one was
sold, I think in order to help finance a
20th
Anniversary Stingray 5...
Anyway, it was just foolish that
I of all people had no Dargie. Sterling had gone
on for years
about how green basses didn't sell and he damned well wasn't
going to
build them just to get the forumites to shut up. But one night on
the
phone, he decided to do it. He added Scotty (the now
infamous Dargie) to
the call and said, "Let's do
it." Scotty took the ball and ran with it, to say
the
least. Martini inlays! Silk-screened
"Dargie Delight" on the back! So I think
that having been
there at the birth of the Dargie Delight, it was only fitting that
I
have one. Right? (I ended up with two, plus the Flaming
Biff Bongo, which is
not technically a Dargie Delight...but it's damned well
green!)
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