The most and less durable stage basses

[D.Don]

squier p bass

seriously i bought one mega cheap from a second hand shop to smash up onstage it took 3 hard swings before the neck cracked and even then it didnt break so i launched it into the offstage wall where it bounced back and landed on the guitarists pedal snapping the stomp plate off it and causing him to chase me across the bar

needless to say we never played there again
in the end i had to lean the dam thing against a wall n kung foo kick it to break the neck all the way through

I want to see a video recording of your band playing live!!!



D.Don

 

[Jimmyplaysabass]

smack a squire p off a stage

if it still works, its durable

if not, who cares?

 

[mickeyy]

My '65 JB fell off the stage (or was kicked off by various inebriated drummers) many times back when I was doing 30 sets a week, 50 weeks a year, sometimes as far as 3 feet down. Knocked a lot of paint off, but it still played fine - I'd probably still be playing it if some lowlife scumbag hadn't stolen it in '85.

It was black, but all the dings showed the white undercoating and/or the wood underneath. It was starting to look like it had a disease or something, so I sanded all the paint off and stained it walnut.

The axe that replaced it, the '85 XP-2 that I still play, has taken its share of spills, with no ill effects.