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Durable basses. Those basses that can take a beating and still kick booty.

#21
Fenders, Rickenbackers, Peaveys, Musicmans. These all have great flexible tone and incredible durabillity! I have used my Peavey Fury as a tennis raquet, swinging it by the neck and hitting basketballs across a gym, and it still stays in tune. I haven't tuned it in about a month actually, and it's still perfectly in tune!

I've always loved Ric's and some day I will have mine, but my Peavey has been a great instrument. I've had lots of oppertunities to buy some nice Warwics and Pedullas, but then I come home and play my Fury and I can't make myself buy anything else! It's a truly amazing instrument and totally underrated.

By the way, my Peavey Fury is a early 90's American made model, with standard hardware and pickups. I changed the wiring around. I also did a custom defret on it and replaced the frets with Purplehart.
 
#22
buy a 70's p bass!!

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#30
Microbass said:
that was from the clash's london calling's photoshoot.
bassist got so worked up becuase all the pictures were crap so he just turned around to smash his bass to give up, luckily someone spotted him! :)

he was quite upset afterwards,s ince that was his playa!
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sorry to correct you, but it was at the palladium, 9-21-79, he was frustrated that the crowd wasnt standing up, he thought the show felt incomplete, so he got pissed and bashed it, and several times at that, if you listen to that night's performance, you can hear thud after thud during white riot,
 
#31
well, my custom conklins, believe it or not, are tanks. i've dropped a few of them and they don't even go out of tune or get the finish too terribly messed up.

in fact, i dropped this one...

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onto the drum kit, where it bounced 3 times and then hit the floor (my strap broke). didn't even go out of tune. :hyper:
 
#33
"Steinberger stick basses are pretty much nuclear war ready."
Actually, extreme heat is about the only thing they won't take.
Ask a luthier which parts of an instrument tend to break: the wood, or the glue joint. Steinbergers are one big glue joint.
Re: the story about the camp instructor using his as a springboard--I did that too, after I bought an XL-2 for my rambunctious then-three-year-old son to bang on. Didn't even lose tune.
If they can survive my son, they can take a whippin'.
 
#34
Ernie Ball Stingrays are solid as anything, built more like a tank than my '87 El Camino, it just doesn't give up. Two broken cases, a couple falls of music stands, being run into by moshing crowds, Coke, water, few dozen cymbals and two leather belts with big sharp buckles and it still hasn't been set up in two years, and the action is still as low and effortless as the day I bought it :)
 
#36
My warwick takes a hel of a lot of bangs on things such as over head cupboards(they generally end up being dented). Also, my spector once got dropped by someone(apparently, this hasn't been totally confirmed, but I had lent it to someone, and they told someone else they'd broken it, and it got round that she'd dropped it.) My rockbass also takes a battering, and it's never broken, fallen to bits or anything, it's just heavily dented.
 
#40
Wow. Thanks once again for all the responses and stories. \m/ I've always been impressed by MM Stingrays, but your stories have made me respect them even more.

Anyway, I wonder if an instrument from the Moser custom shop can take a beating given how intense metal shows can be and that their niche is the metal market. http://www.mosercustomshop.com

This Morpheus right here looks like a deadly weapon. Invalid Link Removed

But maybe looks are deceiving?

Anyway, keep the responses coming, please.
 

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