Best ax for battle?

BuffaloBill · #1 12-25-2009, 11:49 AM

How many times have you actually wielded your instrument as an ax?

mward69 · #2 12-25-2009, 12:32 PM

{Bowing head} I actually did a few gigs ago when a HUGE barfight broke out. Anyone that got near the stage and looked like they were going to get aggressive with us thought twice as I stood in pure viking stance, "ax" at the ready...drummer had his cymbal stand with the heavy weight at the ready as well

Jim Campbell · #3 12-25-2009, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mward69

{Bowing head} I actually did a few gigs ago when a HUGE barfight broke out. Anyone that got near the stage and looked like they were going to get aggressive with us thought twice as I stood in pure viking stance, "ax" at the ready...drummer had his cymbal stand with the heavy weight at the ready as well

i wonder if there will ever be a sid vicious signature pre for that purpose

nutso42 · #4 12-25-2009, 01:33 PM

No axe wielding.... but I have on numerous occasions done the "Johnny Cash holding guitar as a rifle" thing.

Not too many people in my age group get it. But their parents usually do!

CBgaragebassist · #5 12-25-2009, 05:59 PM

I think BC Rich instruments would be best for defensive purposes, about all they're good for.

GlennW · #6 12-25-2009, 06:47 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc

BuffaloBill · #7 12-25-2009, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by GlennW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc

I can't find it on tube, but can you remember Sid Vicious axing into the crowd during the Pistols performance in Texas?

Luke666uk · #8 12-26-2009, 07:57 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOeKnUMn8uU

2.41

tlwaps · #9 12-26-2009, 09:31 AM

Only time I had to this drunk redneck was threatening to kick my a** because a fight broke out during one of our house party shows and I let his girlfriend, who's very very beautiful and I have no idea how he landed her, seek refuge behind my SVT810E. He thought I was trying to swindle her into going home with me. His friends talked some since into him as they knew how heavy a Warwick Corvette Standard 5 string bass weighs.

steveksux · #10 12-26-2009, 09:49 AM

Always thought my original Steinberger would be awesome, and wouldn't even go out of tune after cracking someone in the head with it.

Had to be careful with the headless design though, easy to slip out of your hands on the follow through...\

Randy

becker4567 · #11 12-26-2009, 09:57 AM

Short scale, for sure. A Gibson EB3 works great. There's a redneck out there with a impressive dent in his head courtesy of my mighty Gibby.

StarscreamG1 · #12 12-26-2009, 10:01 AM

Ive never had to use a bass as an axe literally but there was a similar thread a few months back about the best bass to hit someone over the head with. If I recall the Peavey T40 and the Fender P were the 2 best choices. The Fender P because someone had literally smashed a drunk trying to get on stage with theirs, so it was a proven...and we found out on that thread that a T40 is good at stopping small caliber bullets... >_>

If I were ever in a position to have to use one of my basses for self defense, Id make sure I had my T40 within reach. Its hefting that monster up and around for the swing that would probably kill me. LOL But I think in a situation like that adrenalin would compensate

sloasdaylight · #13 12-26-2009, 10:08 AM

I bring this to shady dive bar gigs.

Shmone · #14 12-26-2009, 10:29 AM

I'd go with either a Warwick Corvette std. bubinga or a Warwick Thumb,
might be more like a hammer tho :P

Gard · #15 12-26-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by steveksux

Always thought my original Steinberger would be awesome, and wouldn't even go out of tune after cracking someone in the head with it.

Had to be careful with the headless design though, easy to slip out of your hands on the follow through...\

Randy

Back when I played [shudder] guitar professionally, I used a GL3T for a few years (I looked SILLY with it, I'm 6'2" 250, little white cricket bat strapped on

).

One night in a dive little bar in the middle of nowhere FL, some drunk jerk kept trying to grab our female singer, and after the 3rd or 4th time of patiently explaining that wasn't kosher, I hit him right in the solar plexus with the nut end of it.

He folded like a napkin and crawled away...

I didn't even miss a note, stayed perfectly in tune.

\m/cliffB\m/ · #16 12-26-2009, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sloasdaylight

I bring this to shady dive bar gigs.

i was w8ing for someone to bring this up

beelzelboss · #17 12-26-2009, 02:14 PM

Hmm, I would put money down that my Warwick Rockbass 5 string would make a pretty nasty dent in someones head... But I have wielded it against my brother when he was drunk. The thing is solid enough to hit someone over the head and not make a dent in it!