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#2,821
The rarest bass on earth is the MusicMan "Cement".

Only two were ever made.

In attempt to provide inexpensive workable basses for the masses, the concept was a kit that contained everything you need to make a bass guitar.

The kit came with three different plastic body-shape trays that you mixed the cement in and then let harden.

The tone was so good that bass guitar makers in Japan successfully sued to stop production of it as they could not compete at that market pricepoint.

It is said that one of the two prototypes belongs to the estate of Walt Disney.........and the other is rumored to be owned by Dave Rogers.
 
#2,823
Henway is a subsidiary of Birdsong now.

You can easily tell a Henway by the chicken-beak inlays on the frets. Their guitars and basses both have them.

A Henway was used on the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" L.P. and there is a subtle reference to it in the line "I am the egg-man.".

Dylan wrote the song "I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More" when it was discovered all the Henway guitars they were using for recording tracks there had been stolen.

The original Henway basses came with hum-clucking pickups.....an industry first.

The most sought-after Henway bass is the Henway "Rhode Island Red". The less expensive Henways come only in brown or white.

The shortscale Henway "Chick" comes in white with a yellow headstock.

The newer 5-string Henway "Omelette" has a golden Sunshine Yellow body.
 
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It's true that bass player's ears grow exponentially according to how much they play over the years.....

Many of the people you see with big ears are in fact bass players.

It's the harmonic low end vibrations that cause cellular division and multiplication of external ear tissue.

Most P-bass players have had corrective surgery but are reluctant to admit it.

The saying "elephant in the room" actually started in the late sixties when maturing P-bass players would show up at session gigs.
 
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This is the oldest bass pick ever discovered. It dates back some 150,000 years and was thought to be used by Neanderthal man.

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All evidence points to earlier theories that Neanderthal man did indeed use flatwound strings. Probably TI Jazz Flats.
 
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The remaining original members of The Eagles formed a new band called Chickenfoot, but law firm Satriani, Anthony, Smith & Hagar contested the ownership of the band name, because they'd already registered said name and were planning to disolve their lawyerin' firm and play music full time using the foul band name.

Hens-fourth, The Eagles' remaining members, with egg on their faces from the Chickenfoot fiasco, changed their new band's name to Chickenfeed.
Regardless, in spite of the new name, The Eagles-cum-Chickenfeed (and Chickenfoot, for that matter, as is typical of most lawyers) were/are only in it for the money ... and the chicks. Chickenfeed, alas, bought the farm and The Eagles members returned to touring simply as "The Eagles" to make enough money to satisfy the divorce lawyers requests for higher alimony fees. Divorced and still henpecked, The Eagles will start a new tour: "Desperate Housewives Dominate Desperados 2015". So desperate for scratch are they that they invited former member Don "Feathers" Felder, who quilled the hit "Henhouse California" (later renamed "Hotel California"), but Feathers Felder told his former bandmates to "Go build yourself a nest and cluck it, 'cause I'm free of your yoke".

Nonetheless, The Eagles will subsequently tour with Chickenfoot in 2016, leading one to bereave that "Birds of a feather, rock flock together."
 
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Deleted member 264575 said:
This is the oldest bass pick ever discovered. It dates back some 150,000 years and was thought to be used by Neanderthal man.

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All evidence points to earlier theories that Neanderthal man did indeed use flatwound strings. Probably TI Jazz Flats.
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Everyone in The Troggs used the Rock Pick, exclusively, in the first ever endorsement deal in prehistory. This is common knowledge amongst archeologists and hip anthropologists.
 
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Feral Feline said:
The remaining original members of The Eagles formed a new band called Chickenfoot, but law firm Satriani, Anthony, Smith & Hagar contested the ownership of the band name, because they'd already registered said name and were planning to disolve their lawyerin' firm and play music full time using the foul band name.

Hens-fourth, The Eagles' remaining members, with egg on their faces from the Chickenfoot fiasco, changed their new band's name to Chickenfeed.
Regardless, in spite of the new name, The Eagles-cum-Chickenfeed (and Chickenfoot, for that matter, as is typical of most lawyers) were/are only in it for the money ... and the chicks. Chickenfeed, alas, bought the farm and The Eagles members returned to touring simply as "The Eagles" to make enough money to satisfy the divorce lawyers requests for higher alimony fees. Divorced and still henpecked, The Eagles will start a new tour: "Desperate Housewives Dominate Desperados 2015". So desperate for scratch are they that they invited former member Don "Feathers" Felder, who quilled the hit "Henhouse California" (later renamed "Hotel California"), but Feathers Felder told his former bandmates to "Go build yourself a nest and cluck it, 'cause I'm free of your yoke".

Nonetheless, The Eagles will subsequently tour with Chickenfoot in 2016, leading one to bereave that "Birds of a feather, rock flock together."
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Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the pluckin' Eagles, man!
 
#2,835
That particular doublebass is called an A51 "Stealth".

It has a coating on it that makes it invisible to radar.

As you can see it is being played in a top secret location in the Nevada desert......

The player is wearing special thick shoes that do not set off ground sensors......

The strings make no audible sound when plucked....but the frequencies can be picked up on
a Transmogrifying Spectral Audio Oscillator Decoder (NASA has the only one in existence but shares it with Google and the CIA).
 
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ZenG said:
The strings make no audible sound when plucked....but the frequencies can be picked up on
a Transmogrifying Spectral Audio Oscillator Decoder (NASA has the only one in existence but shares it with Google and the CIA).
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The Transmogrifying Spectral Audio Oscillator Decoder;

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Some early (failed) attempts to put the TSAOD on board;

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Studies are ongoing at NASA.
 
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Truss rods are installed in bass guitars to keep the neck straight during shipping and should be removed immediately upon getting them home from the store or after they've been shipped by freight.
Very easy to do.....just take the neck off your bass guitar and hammer out the truss rod with a really skinny screwdriver.

Once the truss rod is sticking out of the neck, use ViceGrips and just keep working it until it comes free.

If it still won't come, try heating it up with a blow-torch ....
You may also need to give the other end of the neck a few really good sharp bangs with a hammer.

Spraying Penetrating Oil down the truss rod hole helps a lot if done the night before.

Before you start the above , take the neck and give it a few good whacks horizontally on a hard surface , being careful that the metal fret inserts don't fall out.
 
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