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12-16-2009, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Is this Weird?
I found this on a Photo Bucket Double Bass thing.
I been around the bass block, but this????
Anybody? Yeah, I know it's a King Ad. But, ***?
Sign in to disble this ad
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12-16-2009, 07:47 AM
| | Bangin' out the bottom end for 44 years! | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut | | Yeah, wierd. I wonder if the point would have been better made if his butt was on the ground bleeding? 
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12-16-2009, 07:59 AM
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12-16-2009, 08:14 AM
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bass luthier, johnson string inst. | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: waltham, mass. | | | love it
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no one will be watching us...why dont we do it in the road
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12-16-2009, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The Free Republic of Berkeley | | That ain't weird - that's all the way around the block and well into the bizarre. Dayam! Now I'll have the image in my mind all day  |
12-16-2009, 08:24 AM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | Wow. I've heard of "playing your *** off", but...ummm...
Maybe somebody had a bit too much of the brown acid? |
12-16-2009, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | A Venus De Milo reference?
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12-16-2009, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kansas City area | | | Since both arms are necessary to play, why would that ad even work.
"Buy a King and let it rip your arm off"
"Playing a King is painful"
"All of our customers are willing to give their left arm for a King"
Stupiddddd
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12-16-2009, 09:25 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | More like "Stephen" King...
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12-16-2009, 10:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | | Maybe it's cautionary-if you play in thumb position your arms will fall off. |
12-16-2009, 10:05 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | That's actually an ad from the King-Morontone company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of King-Moretone.
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12-16-2009, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Maybe "you'll love your King so much you'll play it till your arms fall off" or some such thing. |
12-16-2009, 10:53 AM
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Bass Hobby'ist | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Southern PA | | Hey Paul…I’ll do a search on the net, but my instinct tell me that is a modern day ad meant to look vintage. Vintage Kings from H.N. White did not use a crown in there advertising or labels. 
I’m sure one of the rock-a-billy players can interpret this for us. This ad is more about shock value and is not a new trick…some of the best advertising is bad advertising, you remember it. 
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12-16-2009, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Yeah, old school like Von Freeman where Cherokee goes on for 45 minutes. You've really got to know how to relax and maybe lower your strings for next time... |
12-16-2009, 11:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Phoenix, Arizona USA | | | Caption that Drawing
"Darn. If I'd only had been more careful around that
banana straightening machine. I might have been able
to play a KING bass today"
Lumpy
You Played on Lawrence Welk?
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12-16-2009, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Hmmm... that must be their special Halloween model. |
12-16-2009, 05:32 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | I guess you folks have never seen this band: http://www.condino.com/onearm.html
The word I heard was that they were very good and even played at Carnegie Hall once.
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12-16-2009, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Westminster, Maryland | | | Haz3
Another disturbing image, whatever the vintage.
Every picture tells a story.
The guy is playing his old bass and it is making him feel like his arms are falling off. He is dreaming of a new KING where his arms would be fine.
It has a lot to do with the pipe he is smoking.
Someone  I used to know experienced a similar thing about '71 with a Fender. He gazed down and his neck and strings looked like a long bow and he had to call for a break.  Then he lost his legs and had to float outside.
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12-16-2009, 05:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | CONDINO: Just how the f**k did you come up with that? THE TRUTH, please.
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12-16-2009, 07:08 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | For a couple of decades, I'd run into random photo's of those guys throughout the northwest- in Ken Cartwright's music shop, over at Kery Char's place in Portland, and once in a medical supply shop in the prosthetics area. Greg Miner's harpguitar website has a bunch of other images of them. I knew of them as sort or the local anti-sawmill underdog band. The GAL used those images for an article I did on the Sawstop table saws a few years ago.
j.
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