Morbid bass thought?

[dougjwray]

Did you know that the same people who would create shrunken heads sometimes created entire shrunken bodies?
When I go, I'd like to have my body shrunk, then coated with polyurethane. After that, someone can attach a bridge, tuning machines, frets, pickups, electronics, strap buttons and strings, and I'll be good to go!

 

[elgecko]

It could be the next Red Violin!

The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. Jackson). Over the years between, the violin travels through four different countries, where it has a profound impact on all those who own it.

 

[micguy]

Cremation results in a bunch of ashes. Ashes are mostly carbon. Some places will turn your ashes into diamonds (a form of carbon). Graphite is another form of carbon. Perhaps you can become the reinforcement rods on several bass necks in your after life?

I love my carbon reinforced necks. Now I'm kinda wondering who's in there.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Loooonnngg time ago I was so enthralled by playing bass (still am) that I had the eccentric idea that when my time ends, I'd like to be cremated and my ashes stirred into a gloss lacquer and my main player gets a new paint job with that lacquer to hand down to my child if I were to have one. Well, had 3 kids and the idea revolted the wife and all the kids so had to backtrack and say I was just kidding about that story...but I was not....at the time I thought it.

Kind of like the guy who gets buried in his favorite sports car.
Would not do it now though.....maybe.

I love it, man.

For me it's a tossup between a Viking Funeral and having a diamond set made for each grandchild from my ashes: Invalid Link Removed

 

[MEKer]

I love it, man.

For me it's a tossup between a Viking Funeral and having a diamond set made for each grandchild from my ashes: Invalid Link Removed

I think I'd end up a nice dark gray burst. And I'd be part of a bass making music. Oh, yeah,cool.

 

[basscapes]

When I'm done, sell it all for whatever you can get for it (provided the two young on again/off again musicians in the fam aren't playing by that time)...

Ain't gonna matter to me!

 

[JakobT]

I have a good friend who runs a funeral parlour, and specializes on giving the customers whatever they want. I’m not sure about the idea of being integrated into a bass paint job, though. But I’m sure that given the task, she would come through in spades.

 

[Member8675309]

Hmm, would your ashes provide the best look, though? I’d mix mine with sparkle to have a matte sparkle finish.

 

[Deak]

Did you know that the same people who would create shrunken heads sometimes created entire shrunken bodies?
When I go, I'd like to have my body shrunk, then coated with polyurethane. After that, someone can attach a bridge, tuning machines, frets, pickups, electronics, strap buttons and strings, and I'll be good to go!

Short Scale?

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Did you know that the same people who would create shrunken heads sometimes created entire shrunken bodies?
When I go, I'd like to have my body shrunk, then coated with polyurethane. After that, someone can attach a bridge, tuning machines, frets, pickups, electronics, strap buttons and strings, and I'll be good to go!

 

[JaseyT]

Yeeeaaahhhhh, I'd rather not play a bass where the lacquer wearing off meant I was touching human ashes. Not enough soap in the world.

 

[Joedog]

Yeah, that's kind of weird.
More than a couple of people think I am weird. I bow to your superiority!

 

[micguy]

Yeeeaaahhhhh, I'd rather not play a bass where the lacquer wearing off meant I was touching human ashes. Not enough soap in the world.

Perhaps this will spawn another sub genre in the development of Hard Core bands? We've got Death Metal, can't be that big of a jump to.....AshCore?

 

[Aqualung60]

I'm going to make a raft out of mine & have my Viking friend set fire to it from the beach.
<with my body on top, of course>

If you have friends like mine, make sure you tell them to make sure you're dead first.

 

[Wesley R]

My plan used to be: Buy a bottle of Jack Daniels, rent a snowmobile and ride off on Lake Superior and either pass out and die, or run out of gas and die. Insurance covers the sled, and the body floats slightly above the lake floor as the water is to cold for the body to bloat from gasses.

 

[dtsamples]

I want my remains to be spread along Main Street at Disneyland. I also don't want cremation.

This might be the funniest post I've ever read

 

[DirtDog]

. They both gave me the "dad's going mental on us again" look...

Whew, glad to know I'm not the only one!

 

[DirtDog]

My old man used to say: "Just throw me in the septic tank when I'm gone". Well, when that day came, Mom wouldn't let us do that!

 

[hsech]

I told my wife to put me in a Hefty Sack and set me out on the curb.

 

[Carl Hillman]

What would Keef do ?

Simply, not die.