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So far I have seen Krist destroy three rippers:
A black ripper (Pier 48 Seattle 1993)
A natural ripper (Reading 1991)
And another black ripper (Belgium 1991)
Both the black rippers were totalled but I think the natural may have survived by the skin of it's teeth. What I am really suggesting is that maybe he had a lot more rippers than we thought...
A black ripper (Pier 48 Seattle 1993)
A natural ripper (Reading 1991)
And another black ripper (Belgium 1991)
Both the black rippers were totalled but I think the natural may have survived by the skin of it's teeth. What I am really suggesting is that maybe he had a lot more rippers than we thought...
Me too. Must have been the Black Eagle? The concert I saw (at the Crest Theater, Sacramento) happened to be recorded and posted on YouTube:
I suppose the tone I know and like best is the Ripper.
The natural one survived and can be seen on numerous dates later on in the tour, both as backup and main bass. I've edited the OP.
But saying that, I think the one destroyed in Belgium was repaired. The damage wasn't collateral, only a broken headstock, which is easy to fix.
Ah, fair enough then. Every time I see them smash gear I think of thier poor guitar tech!
If you look closer at the last song on the "LIVE AND LOUD" DVD you can notice when Krist is playing some instrumental part right before "Endless, Nameless", the camera shows that he's using an orange Dunlop Tortex Pick (the way he holds the pick is very particular). These are the same picks used by Kurt Cobain.
If you look closer at the last song on the "LIVE AND LOUD" DVD you can notice when Krist is playing some instrumental part right before "Endless, Nameless", the camera shows that he's using an orange Dunlop Tortex Pick (the way he holds the pick is very particular). These are the same picks used by Kurt Cobain. What about your question? If you also look this picture, I think he has the signal splitted: The ProCo Rat (the overdriven tone heard the entire show) has an additional A/B footswitch and possibly there's a DI Box.... Why am I saying this? Just COMPARE the song "Scentless Apprentice" from this DVD "Live and Loud" (also available as a CD on the Super Deluxe Edition of In Utero) VERSUS the same song included on "From the Muddy Banks..." These are the SAME song from the SAME show!! But for the "Muddy Banks" live album Andy Wallace has mixed this song using low the bottom end only (the signal from the Ampeg cabinets seen on the DVD) whereas for the LIVE AND LOUD they had used another mixing engineer who has mixed the bass from the Ampegs (low end tone) AND the overdriven tone from the ProCo Rat to the PA cabinet (clearly seen when Krist Novoselic destroys it with his bass guitar). Just hear these versions!!!
Also, don't forget to tune to D flat, kiddos! Love Krist's basslines....
Well, since you bumped it, and I read it - I feel obliged to add that I remember seeing Krist use a Hartke rig, and also noticing that the (cheap) instruments that got smashed up in the encore, were rarely the (valuable) instruments played during the rest of the show.
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Let's bring in THIS guy.
The story on how Pat Smear joined Nirvana is a cool one. Kurt Cobain met Smear when the latter was working at record store in LA. No gig, no musical career whatsoever, he was a had-been. So Kurt decided that if Pat wanted a gig, he'd give him one.
But to give you guys an example on how tough times were for Pat: he actually had to pawn all his guitars to buy a plane ticket to Seattle. So when he did show up at the Rehearsal stage without an actual instrument to play, Kurt went "No problem, I have an endorsement with Fender, let me make some calls."
Pat during "Live and loud" playing one of the three Fender custom shop stratocasters which were made to the same specs as Kurt's famous "Vandalism" guitar. It's the same one he still plays in the upper picture and which is still in use today. Of course those guitars were put through the wringer as Pat happily joined in on the destruction act. The Fender Reps found out about that and didn't want those expensive custom guitars to be trashed, so they hooked up Kurt and Pat with a couple of Mexican made Stratocasters which were brought in for the destruction act.
But both Kurt and Pat actually liked those cheap Mexican made Fenders and started to use them as serious instruments too. One particular one was decorated by Pat, who named it "Flopsy"
So why do I bring this up?
While Pat and Kurt had cheap banger guitars to trash about, Krist didn't, he'd play his Ibanez Ripper (with the replaced neck and gold hardware) and his bowed neck Gibson Ripper but had no cheap smash up instruments for the destruction act.
