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Coppolo basses are often known for instruments in vintage specs where would go with nitro finish when they possibly can.   I did have a few opportunities to try out a few LG5 Standards and this happened to be a pretty impressive one.   

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Sterling bass was introduced in 1993 after years of success of the Stingray.   It was like the refined version of their signature product, and since EBMM revamped the Stingray line, Sterling now became their heritage line and it’s a personal favourite of mine. 

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Fender has been offering lower end American made instrument since the early year 2000.   It started with Highway One where it’s a mixture of American and Mexican made parts that were assembled/finished in Corona factory .  Later on the line was replaced American Special in around 2010, and eventually the line evolved into American Performer line in 2018.    Although they’re all most likely put together by Mexican workers in the factory despite it’s in Mexico or Corona ..  but having the name American on the instrument just seemed a tad more sexier ..   

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For most middle age music lovers, there should be at least one or 2 instrument that you happened to tried/played but did not ended up owning back in the day ..    Beside the 30th Anniversary Stingray 4H I acquired last year.   Here’s come another one of those special one.    It was at around 2011-2012 that they had these Japanese made Ibanez in the very odd shape hanging on the wall in my local store Cosmo Music …    Being a EBMM Bongo owner at that time , My tolerance for odd looking things are pretty high .     I picked it up and played one ..  oh man ..  it was ridiculously comfortable, the bass balances perfectly ..  the entire neck are easy to reach ..   I had fun for a good 45mins and couldn’t put it down ..  too bad that I wasn’t able to afford one at that time .. and it was gone after my next visit 2 weeks later ….   

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Beside the jazz or precision, the Musicman Stingray is probably the 3rd most popular electric bass out there.    Design by Leo Fender and Tom Walker and test  drive by Sterling Ball , the bass was introduced to the market in 1976 by Musicman, and later on the company  became Ernie Ball Musicman.

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Had my eyes on these shiny blink blink pickups from Dimarzio since a year-ish ago when they first announced the new signature models for Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool .    very catchy but never get to seen them in local store ..       until a week ago, I finally pulled the trigger when Dimarzio.com was celebrating Larry Dimarzio's bday and had the sales site wide ...   oh well .. .  new toy day .. 

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For most middle age music lovers, there should be at least one or 2 instrument that you happened to tried/played but did not ended up owning back in the day ..     This Stingray is one of those for me ….  and I feel grateful to find one almost 2 decades later ….  And can’t be thankful enough to say this is my all time favourite Stingray after having my hands on over 200 instruments ..   

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Here's my cover of the song Dazzle by a Taiwanese singer YELLOW (黃宣) 

Learning this song for a coming gig and I found it interesting/challenging .  Changes and notes aren't really complicated, but it did take me a little while to get the groove right (almost .. )

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Being a lucky one that owns pretty much all of Jimmy’s 5 string product lines, and pretty much owning most of the sounds I want in the electric bass category, I was asking myself ..  what’s next ..    

Maybe an old Fender Jazz?     And soon I gave up the idea, there’s no way I’m going to spend a fortune on something over the internet unseen, so I went went for the next best thing I can think of.     

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Fodera has been the best of class in making electric basses since the 80s, used by countless serious bass artists world wide.   They’ve surely pushed the art of solid body instrument making to the highest level.    In about 2011, they’ve released the standard line and this Ying Yang Standard was one of the signature model among the 4 standard line models.