Seeing that today, May 6th, is Mr. Seger’s birthday, I thought it fitting to send along my favorite track from one of the best live albums ever put to tape:
Happy 80th, Bob…
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+100
His albums were very good. His live shows were extraordinary. My favorite was an outdoor show at Alpine Valley in southeastern Wisconsin near Lake Geneva. He “arrived” on stage wearing a harness attached to a zip line strung from a giant oak tree up the hill, stage right, down to the stage. While playing his guitar! Man, did that get the crowd going!
This album has been on my rotation for weeks now. Acid Bath helped kickstart the Louisiana sludge scene. Broke up in '97 after the death of their bass player. They just reunited last year and have started touring.
Funny how things are timed. Sago comes up, and Mina just released a Sago promotional video
Her signature Sago is now 99,000 yen which is quite affordable ($700 USD)
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I actually like their bridge positioning - would that make a 34" feeel shorter? That would explain the need for the longer horn, to keep balance, right?
looks completely standard?
All of mine are in the same place at the back of the body.
Very standard position for a 34" scale.
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Sago makes great MIJ instruments for not a huge price tag. They do have more expensive models but in general their stuff is really good.
I happen to know where she buys them too (they have her picture up 
)
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The horn only goes to the 12th fret which is normal
I would have to play it, but yes you can design the body so that it feels like a shorty. I had a ESP LTD bass, I think a B204, where I was constantly off a tone because of the design, the neck played shorter than a normal bass as it was shifted to the right. And playing by feel when I started I was off two frets. Constantly.
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Yeah nothing about this bass seems weird to me. They do have the neat body styling but that’s just cool.
I found the geometry interesting, but maybe cause I haven’t seen a 34" in a looooong time now 
The bridge is at the very end of the body … and the horn seems quite long, compared to standard Fender stuff.
So that should mean that it’s a) well balanced and b) centered differently, possibly making it easier to play for a short scale player.
But that might be wishful thinking?
The styling is cool but the positioning is completely standard. Horn to 12th is common, and the bridge goes there even on Fender P-basses.
That’s as “normal” as it gets, horn to 12th, bridge right at the back. Welcome back to 34"!
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She’s had it since she was a kid (well into her twenties now if you can believe it), and she is on the small side for Japanese. The only thing I have heard her complain about is the size of her hands being small. So maybe.
Pretty sure she was when she started youtubing.
F-Chopper and Tomo-zo are almost 40. Miki Furukawa is mid-40s.
Yeah, I wish I were a small Japanese girl
It’s that d@mn HB 5 string multiscale that makes me WANT to see things in 34" that do not exist: like being able to play it with my f#ckling shoulder!
My mind plays tricks on me…
What could be throwing him off is that Mina’s bass has 24 frets, where normally a Fender has 20. So that may not be taken into account
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Yeah but that just extends the fretboard back by making it longer, it does not change the position of the notes.
She was in high school when she started in the band Girlfriend. With the same bass.
Baby Mina
I’m just saying by looks, the fretboard is longer giving the illusion the horn is longer
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That solved it for me! And, most importanty: no 34" that keeps me awake, thank you very much
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