{"id":5449,"date":"2014-03-31T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:27:47","slug":"the-story-of-the-new-bbg-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/the-story-of-the-new-bbg-logo.html","title":{"rendered":"The story of the new BBG logo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may have noticed that Best Bass Gear has started to use its new logo. It’s not being used everywhere just yet, but is being transitioned in.<\/p>\n

Does the logo have a story behind it? Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

The original BBG logo was nothing but white letters on a blue background. It was stolid, terse and not very distinctive, but it worked.<\/p>\n

The new design is a bass body shape that Max Kay came up with that he terms as being a “Thundercaster”. And contrary to what some may think, the shape does balance out well. When worn on a real instrument made in that shape, there is no neck dive whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Even though bass<\/em> is in the name, BBG did want the shape to be recognized even from a distance where you couldn’t make the letters out. The Thundercaster shape along with the 4 strings seen and the 4 tuners seen at right made that possible.<\/p>\n

And yes, the headstock is in fact an ear turned on its side.<\/p>\n

The rest of the logo did in fact come from you<\/em>, the Best Bass Gear customer. We did ask around what people liked for logos and incorporated a few ideas here and there for the finalized logo.<\/p>\n

Did the “Thundercaster” shape ever make its way to a real bass?<\/h3>\n

Indeed it did. Here’s one that Chris Stambaugh built:<\/p>\n

\"Stambaugh\"<\/p>\n

So yes, the BBG logo does in fact exist as a real instrument.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/h3>\n

We think our new logo works a lot better than our old one did, but what do you think? Let us know by posting a comment or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you may have noticed that Best Bass Gear has started to use its new logo. It’s not being used everywhere just yet, but is being transitioned in. Does the logo have a story behind it? Yes, it does. The original BBG logo was nothing but white letters on a blue background. It was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}