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Old 11-20-2001, 08:31 AM
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Having been knocked over on stage and hearing my bass hit the floor, I can sympathise with you guys.

But the ugliest sound I've ever heard out of a bass was this one blues gig I was playing a long while back. I was playing on my defretted Squire P-bass, my only bass at the time. Grooving along, we were, when I here this "THOCK" sound and the bass detunes itself about 4 steps. That, my friends, is the sound of a truss rod snapping during a gig. Not the nut on the rod stripping. The metal rod snapping in two. That was an ugly sound.

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Old 11-21-2001, 09:25 AM
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Old 11-21-2001, 05:20 PM
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ok, i have 2 good ones. even though i have recently been kicked out of my band of 6 months i have a few good stories. the worst sound ever came from my bass on stage. i was playing my 6 for a battle of the bands round 2 for a national radio station called massive radio based in albuquerque and we were in the middle of a song and my strap just came off after i was jumping around, and the bass fell right out of my hands onto the stage at just the angle to crack the jack on the chord that i was using (not mine because i always wrap mine thouroughly with electrical tape around the jacks) and it gave some amazing feedback before 2 of the speakers on my friends peavey cab blew and broke the jack off in my bass. that suckd alot. and the once my guitarists bridge saddle came off in mid song breaking his string which shot back into his arm while he yelped in pain into the mike and bent over to pick his saddle up his strap came off and he dropped his guitar and knocked over the mike which hit the floor and broke, that one was pretty bad.


thats about it. heres the gig i was at this was just soundcheck though... no wait no it wont load n/m
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