Double Bass Is this Weird?

[Paul Warburton]

I found this on a Photo Bucket Double Bass thing.
I been around the bass block, but this????
Anybody? Yeah, I know it's a King Ad. But, ***?

 

[RustyAxe]

Yeah, wierd. I wonder if the point would have been better made if his butt was on the ground bleeding?

 

[DeluxeRed]

'Tis but a scratch!

 

[kurt ratering]

love it

 

[johnz]

That ain't weird - that's all the way around the block and well into the bizarre. Dayam! Now I'll have the image in my mind all day

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Wow. I've heard of "playing your *** off", but...ummm...

Maybe somebody had a bit too much of the brown acid?

 

[Don Higdon]

A Venus De Milo reference?

 

[Greg Clinkingbeard]

Since both arms are necessary to play, why would that ad even work.
"Buy a King and let it rip your arm off"
"Playing a King is painful"
"All of our customers are willing to give their left arm for a King"
Stupiddddd

 

[etoncrow]

More like "Stephen" King...

 

[SAlcott]

Maybe it's cautionary-if you play in thumb position your arms will fall off.

 

[drurb]

That's actually an ad from the King-Morontone company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of King-Moretone.

 

[Eric Hochberg]

Maybe "you'll love your King so much you'll play it till your arms fall off" or some such thing.

 

[MollyKay]

Hey Paul…I’ll do a search on the net, but my instinct tell me that is a modern day ad meant to look vintage. Vintage Kings from H.N. White did not use a crown in there advertising or labels.

I’m sure one of the rock-a-billy players can interpret this for us. This ad is more about shock value and is not a new trick…some of the best advertising is bad advertising, you remember it.

 

[Eric Hochberg]

Yeah, old school like Von Freeman where Cherokee goes on for 45 minutes. You've really got to know how to relax and maybe lower your strings for next time...

 

[Lumpy]

"Darn. If I'd only had been more careful around that
banana straightening machine. I might have been able
to play a KING bass today"


Lumpy

You Played on Lawrence Welk?
Yes but no blue notes. Just blue hairs.

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[bejoyous]

Hmmm... that must be their special Halloween model.

 

[james condino]

I guess you folks have never seen this band:


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The word I heard was that they were very good and even played at Carnegie Hall once.

j.

 

[gbaker]

Another disturbing image, whatever the vintage.

Every picture tells a story.

The guy is playing his old bass and it is making him feel like his arms are falling off. He is dreaming of a new KING where his arms would be fine.

It has a lot to do with the pipe he is smoking.

Someone I used to know experienced a similar thing about '71 with a Fender. He gazed down and his neck and strings looked like a long bow and he had to call for a break. Then he lost his legs and had to float outside.

 

[Don Higdon]

CONDINO: Just how the f**k did you come up with that? THE TRUTH, please.

 

[james condino]

For a couple of decades, I'd run into random photo's of those guys throughout the northwest- in Ken Cartwright's music shop, over at Kery Char's place in Portland, and once in a medical supply shop in the prosthetics area. Greg Miner's harpguitar website has a bunch of other images of them. I knew of them as sort or the local anti-sawmill underdog band. The GAL used those images for an article I did on the Sawstop table saws a few years ago.

j.