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Spunky was also the bassist in Duke Fame's backing band in "This Is Spinal Tap", but the scene of Duke on stage did not make the final cut.Little Known Fact
The Greatful Dead's "Live at the Fillmore" had a stand-in bass player they found from the local musician's union, because Phil Lesh refused to play the Fillmore, afraid that he and the venue's names would cancel each other out and both would be erased from the very fabric of time and space to become pure anti-matter.
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Look closely and you'll see it is NOT Phil Lesh on bass, but rather Local Union 802 member "Spunky Crueckshank"; the Dead's manager was willing to take any Union member, so it was simply fortuitous that Spunky so closely resembled Lesh more than the other Union Local members.
A CArdboard bass is more sturdy than one made of solid wood.
They're terrible neck divers.What the heck!!!???....you bought one of those IKEA P-Basses?......any neckdive on 'em?
If you say "Sid Vicious" while looking into a mirror during a full moon at midnight....
...you'll lose all your musical ability onstage.