New guitar for Greg - Kapow! (lots of pics and review)
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Haha. Where I'm from, purple is one of the holy trinity of colors. Purple, Gold, and Green are Mardi Gras colors. Those are like the de facto official colors of New Orleans. It's not uncommon to see entire houses painted up in those colors or a combo of two of them.
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and LSU!
Showed wifey that pic this morning and she's gonna take it .... replace the Hallmark Logo with LSU and post in on her facebook page ...... purple and gold guitars!! Go LSU!!!
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LSU chose their colors because that's basically all there was at the time. In the late 1800's when LSU was just getting started, some bigwig at LSU got inside info somehow that a big textile shipment was coming in from Europe and landing in New Orleans. He sent some go-fer down there to get as much as he could. It was Mardi Gras time, and the kid came back with purple and gold. That's been LSU's colors ever since. LSU's rival, Tulane University in New Orleans, got there late and all they had left was green. To this day, that's still their color. Tulane Green Wave. LSU beating Tulane in the color war started a long lasting rivalry that spread to the football field where LSU has mostly dominated ever since. Geaux Tigers!
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Yup, that's the story. How much of it is completely true? I don't know. It's LSU folklore. Seems reasonable though. The two main universities of southern Louisiana ended up with the most prominent colors of the region. Maybe Tulane's version is the same, but opposite. They might claim they wanted the green and left LSU with the purple and gold. Unlikely though. LSU's majestic purple and gold looks way better than Tulane's boring ass green.
LSU has since become a national sports and acedemic powerhouse. Tulane is just Tulane. Great acedemic school, but overall small-time compared to LSU.
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1st bass I ever had. Played thru a Kustom bass rig with two 3x15 cabs.
Update:
Got a new bridge pickup for the Hallmark. The original pickup, while sounding unbelievably awesome with the amp clean, was just too much with the gain dialed up. Too hot, too fat, a little muddy. While I love the fat twang of the original pickups clean sound, I simply don't use that type of tone very often. Those of you in here that know my music know that I go for a more overdriven sound most of the time. So I contacted Bob Shade at Hallmark and explained my concerns. No problem. He told me he could mod my existing pickup for $50 or make me a new one to my exact demands for $100. I decided to go with a new pickup so I could keep the original and go back to "stock" if I want to. So I explained that I wanted something "like a P-90". Cleaner mids, more bite, less fat. He understood. I paypal'd the $100 and 5 days later a new custom made pickup was in my mailbox! Sweet! Wired it in and hot damn it's just right. Tight lows, clean mids, and bite. Just what I wanted. I used it live in a full band jam session and man it sounds awesome. My 60 Custom just got truly custom.
If any of you are in the market for a unique guitar with exceptional build quality and a builder that provides unparalleled customer support and communication, all for price that's an exceedingly great value, check out Hallmark guitars.
Got a new bridge pickup for the Hallmark. The original pickup, while sounding unbelievably awesome with the amp clean, was just too much with the gain dialed up. Too hot, too fat, a little muddy. While I love the fat twang of the original pickups clean sound, I simply don't use that type of tone very often. Those of you in here that know my music know that I go for a more overdriven sound most of the time. So I contacted Bob Shade at Hallmark and explained my concerns. No problem. He told me he could mod my existing pickup for $50 or make me a new one to my exact demands for $100. I decided to go with a new pickup so I could keep the original and go back to "stock" if I want to. So I explained that I wanted something "like a P-90". Cleaner mids, more bite, less fat. He understood. I paypal'd the $100 and 5 days later a new custom made pickup was in my mailbox! Sweet! Wired it in and hot damn it's just right. Tight lows, clean mids, and bite. Just what I wanted. I used it live in a full band jam session and man it sounds awesome. My 60 Custom just got truly custom.
If any of you are in the market for a unique guitar with exceptional build quality and a builder that provides unparalleled customer support and communication, all for price that's an exceedingly great value, check out Hallmark guitars.
So what do you think of 'your' pickup being called a Fat Pig?
Lol. I don't care. What's your pickup called?
Lt. Bob
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man ...... it was too long ago to really know.
It was my first ever bass for one thing plus it was ...... ummmm .... 43 years ago!!
holy crap I'm almost dead! 
I used crap strings on it for sure. I gigged with it so it couldn't have been too bad but I can't truthfully give any kind of legitimate assessment of it compared to other basses.
Sure wish I had it back though.
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No, actually that sounds like exactly what happened. Very cool!
You have a great ability to analyze and describe sound, so that really helps with something like this.
My custom pickup is called the rush limbaugh, so I'm surprised they allowed yours to be called the fat pig, as that seems like copywrite infringement...
Lt. Bob
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awesome .....