MAP (minimum advertised price) is 1,199.00. I think you can do better at the HOG.
If you could walk out of HOG with one of these basses for $1000, I would say that's a really good price. Man, I want to order one but I need to hold myself back because financially, it would be a really bad idea. Owning a Pelham Blue NR Bird is a dream of mine but I have to say, I would definitely have to chrome it out. Like many of you, I'm also not super into some of the non-classic elements of it, smaller headstock, black hardware & 3-point bridge. BUT.... I think after making some mods to it I can put up with some of the other shortcomings. We all know that adding chrome covers over the pickups is not a problem and switching out the tuners and bridge with chrome ones also wouldn't be that hard or that expensive and I'm sure you can make some of your money back by selling the original parts on Ebay. Obviously, you can't do anything about the headstock but after all is said and done, I can probably be okay with a slightly smaller headstock and 3 point bridge.
Another thing, it's bad enough ordering a bass without playing but I definitely couldn't order it without even seeing a picture of it. I'm really surprised that there are no pictures floating around yet especially since it's supposedly coming out in less than a month.
