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Have you ever destroyed a bass by accident?

#41
Amazingly, no. Although my P has traded paint with, a black grand piano, a white grand piano, multiple amps, many ceilings, many walls, a couple floors, and my girlfriends head ON ACCIDENT (she's very short and I'm very tall and this bass has neck dive like you wouldn't believe)

My Schecter had a close call a year ago when someone knocked it down a few rows of bleachers at a basketball game.... Stupid drummers:P
 
#43
25 years ago, as I was unloading my gear from my guitarist's mom's car, I accidently left my Ibanez MC-924 Musician Bass leaning up against the rear bumper of her car. As I started carrying my gear into the house, I watched in horror as she slowly backed out of the driveway and over my bass! The case looked like it had been run over by a steamroller (and it was a total loss), but the bass itself escaped with only moderate damage. There were several deep scrapes on the back of the peghead, the lower bout had a nasty scar, and one of the tuning pegs had snapped clean off at the gear housing. I replaced the tuning peg & continued to play that bass for another 6 years before trading it for my 1st Rickenbacker, a used 4001 in azureglo.
 
#44
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Not on accident... but I admit to doing this:
 
#46
One time, I had my '72 Buick Riviera in a no parking "fire zone" close to the stage door to unload. I left all of the gear including my '78 Precision near the door while I backed the car up (cutting the wheel) to park it. I hear a crunching sound and knew immediately that I had run over the bass. When I got out of the car, the front tire was on top of the case. I figured my P was a goner since the case was visibly destroyed.

I moved the car and opened the case to inspect what my carelessness had caused. What I found was that the finish had a few marks that it didn't have before - the pickup was pressed down (I was able to return it to where it belonged without tools), and that was the extent of it. The car had run over the solid ash body and missed the neck entirely.

Later, I put the bass on a tuner, and it was in perfect tune! Unfortunately, I destroyed the bass intentionally a few years later by adding a Jazz bass pickup to it.
 
#47
My first bass was a Squire P-bass i tore the guts out of it by standing on the lead mid set at collage, (i put my lead behind my strap now). Duct taped it up and then it dropped off the strap ( i now use strap locks).

My MIM jazz bass is pretty much the only bass i've tried smashing up and failed at the things built like a tank, gave up after i threw it off stage one night and all i lost was a chuck of paint.
 

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