Author Topic: Europa 6 String S-N 02U12730 (Read 1517 times)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #15 on:** September 02, 2006, 03:21:02 AM »

You use the phrase, Plays like Butter... I've seen that phrase used many times on the forum and I'm guessing it's an American phrase.

As someone from the other side of the pond having not heard that phrase used here, Can you tell me what it means?
Jazzyvee

keurosix · « **Reply #16 on:** September 02, 2006, 04:32:08 AM »

Yeah, it's an American phrase allright. I'm not sure where it originated, but imagine chewing on a dry corncob rubbing all over you and sticking to your face, then buttering it up and it gets REAL smooth and flies away. It's sorta like that. I mean that the action and the neck profile is so comfortable, so refined for such a large neck that there is no hinderance - nothing holding you back. You want to play 1/16 or 1/32 note triplets? It's as fast as any guitar I've ever played. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. Sorry, gotta go play that baby right now, it just plays like BUTTA!

richbass939 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2006, 06:46:06 AM »

I don't know where like butta originated but it seems to have been popularized on Saturday Night Live. SNL is a 30-year-running comedy/music TV show in the US. There was a guy named Mike Myers who did a series of skits based on his Jewish mother-in-law and her friends and how they talked. They just loved Streisand. She sings like butta.
Oh no. I'm getting verclempt. (Sorry, wrong spelling; means all breathless.) Talk amongst yourselves.
Rich

lbpesq · « **Reply #18 on:** September 02, 2006, 09:05:46 AM »

Oy vey, yiddish comes to Alembic! I'm kvelling! (For the yiddish impaired, this is a good thing).

Bill, tgo

keurosix · « **Reply #19 on:** September 26, 2006, 07:29:59 PM »

Here is an update to my Europa. I have added FretFX Blue LED's! Now she is a real show stopper! Here is a pic that is also on the FretFX website.

Here is another pic that shows the intensity of the lights:

As soon as I get my Epic 5 sting fretless back from the shop, she's gonna get red LED's installed too. I will post a new thread showing them both all lit-up! Kris

keurosix · « **Reply #20 on:** February 16, 2008, 06:07:34 PM »

It seems right to add the pics with the THG knobs on the guitar to this thread too. Now this bass is killer in sound AND looks!

A little fuzzy, but it shows the knobs front on.

Kris

jacko · « **Reply #21 on:** February 17, 2008, 05:10:44 AM »

I'm thinking you need to send her back to the mothership to get some blue laser leds inserted into the front of the fingerboard. THEN she'll be really amazing (not that she isn't already).

Graeme

keurosix · « **Reply #22 on:** February 19, 2008, 04:21:43 AM »

That's part of the plan - down the road. It'll take an Anvil road case, a new fingerboard, LED's on the side & Laser's on the front, another back plate, a new switch, and a complete refinish, so it will be like buying a whole new guitar!