Confessions of a Stupid Mind - Rated R for Retarded

[magnusdeus123]

So....uhhh.......I kinda......I need to blurt this out ok....

I was playing Jet !!! It was not my fault.....I got drunk on Rock and Roll , and 'Are you gonna be my girl' and all those tingly Rock and Rolly feelings that it invokes in you !!....and....I did a bass throw.....like the guys from Fallout Boy , and the newer Punk bands and stuff......and....err.....it failed......the Screw for the Strap came off.....and....err....this is what I have now....










Three cracks right near the o/p . Funny thing.....it actually sounds better now.......or maybe it's just me feeling emo over it..... I'M SORRY IBBY GSR 390 !!! WAAAAAaaahhh...

My dad (who conviniently thinks that it's more to do with our heroes irresponsibility rather than his.....antics) is telling me that it's over now , and the resonance is gonna get F'd up .

Someone please tell me this aint the truth !! please......just lie I dont mind !! I dont want my Ibanez to die yet....it's not even 4 months young !! (this 29th it shall be though...) . Please some good news , or share your moments so that I dont feel so bad....

Gotta admit the yellow tape looks kinda funky though.....

[prattguy]

Ashamed for playing JET? you shouldn´t, if you felt good playing that music, there should be no regrets.
Ashamed for getting excited and ruining your bass...mmm i guess that was the ONE to throw and maim...after all it is an IBANEZ!!! (LOL). OK, but seriously, be grateful that it wasn´t a SADOWSKY!!!, for example. Learn from your mistakes, but if you do get some "High End" bass and do that crap again, i do not recommend that you post pics here, because you will get BASHED!!!

[BillMason]

Is it just cracked, or completely sheared off? If cracked, maybe some glue and some really good clamps will help fix it up? Keep the tape in either case though, and get some strap locks!! Or stop whipping your axe around... :-)

if it's completely sheared off, you are SOL - time to go shopping!

[Rune Bivrin]

It sounds good, and it looks more rock'n'roll. What's the problem?

[magnusdeus123]

No it's like a crack......but it's so minor....that I dont even want to open and pry and check out wth it is.....Tape's good enough .

I do have strap locks !! The entire screw got ripped out (basswood.......honestly can there be wood softer than this ?!?!) . Used the Toothpick method to fix it up again .

It's an Ibanez GSR 390....cheapo , but I guess I learnt my mistakes right now and here.......no more Rock and Roll , it's all downhill for me now.....*sigh*......gonna pick up jazz.....

[Rune Bivrin]

I honestly think you have it backwards. You now have a genuine "beater" bass. It doesn't get more rock'n'roll than that. Keep throwing that one about, but mind your head. You can get another, more up-scale bass for the finer things, but my guess is that bass is perfect for the gigs where instruments get thrown about.

[txbasschik]

Originally Posted by Rune Bivrin

I honestly think you have it backwards. You now have a genuine "beater" bass. It doesn't get more rock'n'roll than that. Keep throwing that one about, but mind your head. You can get another, more up-scale bass for the finer things, but my guess is that bass is perfect for the gigs where instruments get thrown about.

Right? The more tape and stickers you apply on those cracks, the more punk it is. Keep a nice bass for non-throwing-stuff-around-type gigs.

Cherie

[warnergt]

Here's another classic bass toss. Instead of cracking his bass, he cracks his head.
Nirvana - Sensational Bass Toss

[chaosMK]

Dont feel bad for playing bad music.

A friend of mine did the same thing with a Warwick. His move was really cool too... kind of like a yoyo thing. He'd scare chicks with it. Just one day it didnt come back.

I am too busy playing to toss around my Cirrus.

[Stuggi]

The resonance aren't gonna get FUBARED just because of that, and besides, it's a beater, fill the cracks with superglue and tape them over after the gule has settled. Then apply sticker saying "**** YOU" and you're cooler than ever before!

[magnusdeus123]

Well , thats cool and all.....except the fact that right now it's my ONLY bass .

Yeah , but it's sounding ok . The sounds coming a bit crackly , but thats probably more of a battery issue rather than the bass issue .

[SirCanealot]

Oh, an Ibanez... a friend's dad has an Ibanez precision from the 80s (lovely bass! Got it refinished in neon yellow, hahaha), and he's been throwing it around since he got it in the 80s!

Who cares, a guitar can take a BEATING and still work!

[bigbass94]

Fall out boy

[arbitrary]

Honestly, does the tone or resonance matter all that much when you're playing Jet?

[bassforce]

Dude, keep on rock'n'roll !

It's not a serious damage and It looks great now ! But I'd rather use a black tape ]:>

Only queers'n'pussies have non-bumped basses !!!

[magnusdeus123]

Hey it's not my fault I'm playing Jet . If you were in this country , and the choice lies between Classic Rock , and Thrash metal , what'd you do.....

[trunkshope6]

you got some hairy arms dog

[magnusdeus123]

...............

[deathofbalance]

Eh, not a big deal. I've got a huge crack in almost the same place on my (even cheaper) bass because I was too broke/stupid to get straplocks.

I think your real problem, though, lies here:

Originally Posted by magnusdeus123

Fallout Boy , and the newer Punk bands

Originally Posted by magnusdeus123

Hey it's not my fault I'm playing Jet . If you were in this country , and the choice lies between Classic Rock , and Thrash metal , what'd you do.....

Why, pick up some Anthrax and Megadeth albums, of course

Edit: I actually kinda like Jet

[magnusdeus123]

Well I do listen to Sabbath , but I sure as hell am not picking up Deth and Anthrax right now , just for the sake of not having to talk to other freaks who think they like those bands.....