This top REALLY sucks!

[Randracula]

Happy 30th Arin! That's a super nice bass you have there,you gotta give me call and tell me all about it.

[bovinehost]

Originally Posted by Big Poppa

thats the proto......

Biff, that rocks more than a robot programmed to rock, sir.

[TSanders]

Originally Posted by Big Poppa

thats the proto......

What a gesture.

[phatduckk]

This BFR is unreal. Im killing time before my birthday BBQ with my friend Adam (a Sterling player as well) and we're both playing the BFR and comparing in to the standard H.

So adam went to the garage (about 50 ft away) to grab beers and came back raving about how clearly he could hear the BFR from all the way in the garage.

More pronounced mids with more low and an extra little snap. thats the current description we've come up with after a few mintues of tooling around. I see no reason to not buy a BFR Sterling. Its a Sterling but everything i like about it is more pronounced.

The killer is the harmonics. I randomly hit a few harmonics around the 3rd due to sloppy play but that "acceindent" caused me to explore the harmonics on this thing... and theyre UNREAL.

this is one serious bass folks! call Pete now and get one

[INMT]

Damn I love green. Sweetest 4 banger I've ever seen.

Pete, tell me these things will ba available as a 5 stringer too?

[tkarter]

This is clearly a case of getting older doesn't suck so much.

Enjoy it Arin.

tk

[phatduckk]

Originally Posted by TSanders

What a gesture.

it is. its really crazy! i remember staring at a bass buyer's guide in like 1994 or 1995 and dreaming about owning a Sterling some day and now look at this.

its a kid's dream come true... really is. and im honored/excited beyond words.

[Road Pop]

Congrats and Happy Birthday!

That bass is stunning. And a proto to boot! This has got to be the coolest MB on the net. We'll need some sound clips....

[sloshep]

Happy Birthday Arin!

I could be wrong.... but I think this will be a birthday to remember.

Too cool BP.

[Russel]

Happy Birthday!


That is an amazing bass.

[maddog]

Happy Birthday Phatty. Glad things are looking up.

[phatduckk]

woah! check out my birthday cake

[ekb16b]

happy birthday mate, im stoked for you,

great cake aswell, even did the grainy-ness of the trans colour

[MingusBASS]

Very, very, cool! You deserve it man.

[Musicman Nut]

Originally Posted by phatduckk

I really don't know what to say here besides "I'm really f***in stoked". This is awesome!

So, I turned 30 yesterday. The big 3-0. So far it's been awesome! Things are really on to a great start.

The last couple months I've been really down. I've had a variety of drama's/crisis pop up the last 6 months and it's all been a lot to deal with: family health stuff, job/financial stuff etc. Kinda sucked... that explains why Ive been a bit MIA till recently.

Anyways - over the course of the last week things have all worked out: sister's health stuff came back "all good", random legal stuff just poof and went away and I got a new job This all adds up to my 30's starting off on the right track. woot!

And today my dad calls me from across the yard and says "hey, FedEx is here with a package". I had no idea what it could be... none. So i ask where and he points at a box in the dining room with a familiar shape.... and it's from SLO


(i started opening the box way to quickly for my girlfriend to snap a closed box shot)

My jaw dropped!!!

I pop the case out of the box and stare at it for a little bit.



I was pretty giddy

So pop the case open and what do we have....



it's something we've all seen and drewled over in a torture thread by Dargin a couple months back



holy sh** its a BFR Sterling. I couldn't believe it! It's gorgeous. The top is pretty much a museum piece on this one. 100% perfect and awesome. fresh strings, plays great out of the box... and that green kills!!! everyone went nuts over the color

Now its time to give it a whirl




This thing sounds huge. its really something! ya - its great. no BS it sounds badass!

OK here's a really horrid picture of my Sterling family:



Now some better pics:





After giving it a quick whirl and taking some pics I gave Sterling a call to thank him. We had a great chat for a lil while and I thanked him about 87 times

Also gave Aziah a call b/c my girlfriend told me her and AJ were also in on it...as wel as Dargin.

So anyways. I'm really stoked and wanted to thank all the folks at EBMM (especially Pops) & my girlfriend for putting together this rediculously awesome surprise for my 30th.

THANKS 12 million

WOW, That's unbelievable. Ernie Ball is Killing me, I'm trying to slow down here Ladies & Gentleman.