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04-16-2008, 05:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Miami, FL | | | Would you smash your bass?
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the classic badass rock & roll move, smash your axe after performing for all of those screaming fans. 
I saw Owen biddle, new bass player for The Roots do it last night on The Colbert Report. Thy've been playing the Star Spangled Banner with Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" set to it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9pm3bCasdvc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRmxl...eature=related
I'm just curious if you gys think you'd throw your bass into the ground like this. I understand you hit a certain monetary level, and it might not matter, but I don't know if I have it in me.
anyone able to identify the bass? |
04-16-2008, 05:23 PM
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04-16-2008, 05:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | I'm tempted to smash my first bass. it's absolute rubbish and it's taking up room.
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04-16-2008, 05:53 PM
| | | | Maybe my Squier P... But I'd have to be on stage, and It would be at the end of a kickass metal jam.
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04-16-2008, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Denver, CO | | | I can only think of one situation where I would ... if I was playing my old Ibanez that I never use anymore and we were playing something along the lines of Killswitch's cover of Holy Diver to a crazy crowd, I might smash it at the end. Otherwise, I'd never do that; I love my Jazz too much to mistreat it.
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04-16-2008, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Akron OH | | | Hell no!! |
04-16-2008, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville, Australia | | | The Roots have a new album?! I had no idea...
I wouldn't smash my bass unless I had another one exactly the same waiting for me afterwards. |
04-16-2008, 06:02 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Arkansas | | | No. Give it to a kid.
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04-16-2008, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Portland oregon | | | Never on purpose. I did break one bass on accident though. On our last song playing a battle of the bands at the paris in portland. I had this crappy squire red p bass. And i was standing at the edge of the stage slipped off and fell. The headstock of the bass hit the ground first ripping the neck from the body of the bass. Chunks of the body were still bolted to the neck. I bought my mim jazz soon after. Some lucky kid in the crowd got my bass there was no way its going to get fixed if i kept it. |
04-16-2008, 06:14 PM
|  | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | I smashed a Hofner on stage back about 1973 or so ...
These day I have been known to bang basses around and even kick them ... but I don't smash them any more ...  |
04-16-2008, 06:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: BC Canada | | | NO!!
Stupid thing started by the "Who" I think in the 60's.
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04-16-2008, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario (Canada) | | | Looks like a Fender Jazz to me. You've gotta love the fact that it just refused to break, he swings it about 3 or 4 times and it just bounces.
Should've used a hollow body, they're much easier to smash, as the fellow with the Gibson demonstrated.
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04-16-2008, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | nope... Only have the one.
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04-16-2008, 07:45 PM
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04-16-2008, 07:50 PM
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04-16-2008, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by scootron No. Give it to a kid. | +100 |
04-16-2008, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis | | I once smashed a bass that I found in the trash behind my school. I loosened the screws in the neck and gave it a good smash. My students are so dumb they think it's real. http://www.teacherband.com/Shea_smash_bass.mpg
It was very therapeutic.
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04-16-2008, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Jackson, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by scootron No. Give it to a kid. | Tell said kid to get a jobbie. Then smash it in front of him to discourage him ever becoming better than you and pulling a Wolfgang on you. Then learn to play more than just steady 1/8th notes.
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04-16-2008, 08:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | | My first bass was a real cheap piece of ****. I had it lying around frets ripped out, and no electronics. For a performance assessment some friends and I wanted to take the piss out of the resident "Free Jazzers." (Read self indulgent noise makers). ((No disrepect to the real deal of course)). Anyway, I took my bass in (after hooking up one pickup) and after a minute or two of etheral noises and face pulling I preceded to attack my bass. First with a hammer, then I jumped on it repeatadly, next I cut the lower horn off with a hack saw. I let the electric drill loose on the body before the “piece de resistance” - I emptied a can of baked beans all over the pick-ups and body before playing my final muffled notes!!
The crowd loved and we got a distinction…. What a joke!! But no, I would never smash any of my current basses! |
04-16-2008, 08:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | I don't put money into anything just to merely destroy it. On that same note, I buy only good stuff to begin with to keep my frustration levels to a minimum. I think that people who intentionally destroy gear will ultimately come to regret their rashness. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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